With 25 years of sports broadcasting under her belt, it’s safe to say that Balding is well aware of the phenomenal impact women can have in sports – not just at professional level, but also in terms of everyday self-belief.

“[Sports] can change girls from being worried that they aren’t skinny enough, that their jeans aren’t size zero, that their lips weren’t big enough and their hair didn’t swish enough, to asking ‘hang on, what can my body do for me?’” Balding told Stylist earlier this year.

“When you look at a the crisis in our younger generation and the obsession with turning the camera on yourself, and therefore the insecurity that comes from that, I think sport is a really important way of showing that things can be another way,”

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