But with her visibility, Scott is inspiring the next generation of young women who want to play sport. She told the BBC that she wouldn’t quit social media because that mean the trolls had won, and added: “What keeps me going is knowing that I’m helping. People are now coming up to me on the street and are saying exactly that.”

There has been progress in gender equality when it comes to sport. A new all-female motorsports race series has just launched, and the first race aired on Channel 4. The BBC’s Summer of Women in Sport this June and July will see women’s sport across all its channels, in the same way that men’s sport is shown.

Ex-England footballer Alex Scott is still subjected to sexist abuse every single day