Disputes concerning how women athletes and women’s sport are portrayed, marketed, or discussed publicly.
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Sydney Sweeney, an equity holder in sports-prediction platform Novig, starred in a nude ad campaign that female athletes say sexualizes women's sport. Novig's CEO and a Guardian columnist publicly disputed that characterization.
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Role at the time: British sprinter; four-time European champion
Statement summary
Amy Hunt said on Good Morning Britain that her concern about the Novig ad was not personal against Sydney Sweeney, and that "the reaction has almost outweighed the moment," while maintaining the ad risks becoming a barrier to girls in sport.
“It's not anything personal against that actress... the reaction has almost outweighed the moment.”
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Hunt maintains her substantive concern that the ad risks becoming a barrier to girls in sport, while explicitly softening her framing to say it isn't personal against Sweeney and that the reaction has 'almost outweighed the moment' -- a materially different, more conditional statement than her earlier condemnation.
Role at the time: Co-founder and CEO, Novig
Statement summary
Novig CEO Jacob Fortinsky said Sydney Sweeney "was driving a lot of the visuals and the messaging" in the ad, shifting creative responsibility for its content toward her.
“It really was Sydney who was driving a lot of the visuals and the messaging.”
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Fortinsky shifts creative responsibility for the ad's content onto Sweeney rather than defending or condemning the ad's substance outright -- a distinct claim from his earlier 'never intended to portray female sports' statement, reframing the dispute over who is responsible without resolving whether the ad itself was appropriate.
Actor. In September 2026 she starred in and joined as a strategic partner and equity holder of Novig, a sports prediction market, for its "Just Sports" ad campaign.
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