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⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), working with European Athletics, has introduced new broadcasting guidelines aimed at reducing the sexualization of women athletes during TV coverage.

- Avoid low-angle camera shots that unnecessarily focus on an athlete’s chest, buttocks, or crotch.
- Avoid lingering close-ups of body parts unrelated to the sporting action.
- Limit slow-motion replays that don’t add technical analysis or help tell the story of the event.
- Prioritize camera angles that showcase athletic performance, technique, skill, and emotion instead of an athlete’s body.
- Use framing that captures the full movement of an event whenever possible, rather than isolated shots of specific body parts.
- Ensure replays are used for technical or editorial reasons, not simply because they create visually revealing footage.
- Focus on athletes’ faces, reactions, and achievements, giving women the same professional treatment expected in coverage of men’s sports.
- Encourage directors and camera operators to choose shots that preserve athletes’ dignity without reducing the quality of the broadcast or the storytelling.