The Camera's Gaze: A Small Step Toward Respect for Female Athletes The European Broadcasting Union's new guidelines on camera angles for live female athletics coverage are a welcome development in the effort to address objectification of women in sports media.
These guidelines were developed through collaboration with female athletes, including Holly Bradshaw and Ivana Spanovic. Athletes like Bradshaw have been subjected to online abuse due to revealing camera angles.
Her testimony about receiving social media abuse and witnessing inappropriate videos of herself highlights the severe consequences of this type of coverage.