Should sports do more to help female athletes feel 'more comfortable' having children during career
You want to reach the top of your sport, but you also want to start a family. It's a conundrum facing many sportswomen. Some British athletes, like Jessica Ennis-Hill and Jo Pavey, have become mothers and then come back to compete at the very top. But for some, it's a seemingly impossible situation. As such, England netball captain Ama Agbeze has called upon sports' governing bodies to introduce specific maternity policies to enable female athletes to feel "more comfortable" having children during their career. Agbeze, 36, wants to start a family with her husband but told BBC Sport taking time out of her career would be a "significant decision". While she said it wasn't "taboo", she added that pregnancy was among "things that just don't get mentioned". "If you're forewarned, you're forearmed," she said. "Hopefully they will start putting procedures and policies in place so that from as so...