Zara Phillips thinks the Olympics were all about girl power.
The British royal – who won a silver medal as part of Team GB’s three-day eventing team – says the London 2012 Games showed how talented the nation’s women are and has made her all the more certain women need to be at the forefront of sport.
Zara told Stylist magazine: ”It was the women’s games. Every time another sportswoman won a medal I was like, ‘Yes! Girl power!’
”The media need to help make things equal. I definitely think, after the coverage we had, there had to be a change in the type of recognition women in sport get. How could there not be? ”
The horse-riding champion admitted she is now suffering from Olympics withdrawal and wishes people would cheer for her with such enthusiasm and patriotism at every event she went to.
Zara reminisced about the summer, saying it had been: ”Amazing. The best bit was seeing people who hadn’t watched our sport before really get behind us. After the games, I competed in Berlin and it was a bit sad – I was like, ‘What’s happened to the cheering?’ ”