(Reuters) - British distance runner Jo Pavey has become the latest female athlete to complain that Nike halted her sponsorship payments when she was pregnant, Sky News reported on Thursday. "When I announced I was pregnant my contract was immediately paused," Pavey, who won 10,000 metres bronze at the 2007 world championships, told Sky. In a statement to Reuters, Nike said it had changed its policy last year on sponsorship so that no female athletes would be "penalized financially for pregnancy." "Nike is proud to sponsor thousands of female athletes," a Nike spokesman said in an emailed statement. Historically, a few female athletes had performance based reductions applied."

Source: The Star May 17, 2019 00:33 UTC