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The Women in Sport Podcast

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  • The Women in Sport podcast brings together insight, advice and expertise from across the sector to discuss the issues and topics you think are important and affecting women and girls in the UK. Join the conversation on social media and follow us @womeninsport_uk Donate to Women in Sport online. (https://www.womeninsport.org/get-involved/make-a-donation/)
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Episodes
  • 41: Paris 2024 Olympic Preview: Joanna Rowsell

    41: Paris 2024 Olympic Preview: Joanna Rowsell
    Jul 23 2024
    This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary and we've relaunched our podcast!

    This week the world’s top athletes will gather in Paris for the 2024 Olympic Games.

    Few of us will ever know what its like to represent our country in elite sport. Fewer still will know the feeling of standing on the podium whilst the national anthem plays.

    Joanna Rowsell MBE knows exactly what this is like. She has two gold medals - one from London in 2012 and the other from Rio in 2016 – both in the Team Pursuit.
    Add to that, five World Championship titles, multiple World Cup Gold medals and a standing world record, also in Team Pursuit.

    Presenter: Julia George

    Watch and listen to the BBC commentary of Joanna's moment of Olympic glory:
    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/olympics/19127475
    Copyright BBC 1984

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    About Women in Sport

    Women in Sport was founded in 1984 and its vision is that no-one is excluded from the joy, fulfilment and lifelong benefits of sport and exercise.

    Recognising that gender stereotypes and institutional bias are holding women back in life and in sport, the charity’s purpose is to give every woman and girl the opportunity to take part and inspire her to do so.

    DONATE and support our work here

    Find out more about us here

    Follow Us
    Instagram – Instagram.com/womeninsport_uk

    X – x.com/womeninsport_uk

    LinkedIn – linkedin.com/company/women-in-sport

    TikTok – tiktok.com/@womeninsport


    Acknowledgments
    Thank you to David Prest at Whistledown Productions for the technical help and use of the studio to record this podcast.

    Edited and mixed by Steven George

    Music: Luna Cantina - A Huevo
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    30 mins
  • 40: Paris 2024 Olympic Preview: Tessa Sanderson

    40: Paris 2024 Olympic Preview: Tessa Sanderson
    Jul 16 2024
    This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary and we've relaunched our podcast!

    It’s July 2024. In just a few weeks, the world’s top athletes will gather in Paris for the 2024 Games.

    We’ll be watching on - in wonder - at the human endeavour, the glory and the heartbreak.

    What all that feels like is the stuff of dreams for most of us.
    Today's guest is a woman who lived that dream.

    Tessa Sanderson CBE is a British Olympic icon. She represented Great Britain at six Olympic Games, winning a gold medal in the javelin at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics setting a new Olympic record and making history as the first black British woman to win Olympic gold.

    Presenter: Julia George

    Watch and listen to the BBC commentary of Tessa's moment of Olympic glory:
    1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games - Women's Javelin (youtube.com)
    Copyright BBC 1984


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    About Women in Sport

    Women in Sport was founded in 1984 and its vision is that no-one is excluded from the joy, fulfilment and lifelong benefits of sport and exercise.

    Recognising that gender stereotypes and institutional bias are holding women back in life and in sport, the charity’s purpose is to give every woman and girl the opportunity to take part and inspire her to do so.

    DONATE and support our work here

    Find out more about us here

    Follow Us
    Instagram – Instagram.com/womeninsport_uk

    X – x.com/womeninsport_uk

    LinkedIn – linkedin.com/company/women-in-sport

    TikTok – tiktok.com/@womeninsport


    Acknowledgments
    Follow Tessa on X - x.com/tessasanderson

    Thank you to David Prest at Whistledown Productions for the technical help and use of the studio to record this podcast.

    Edited and mixed by Steven George

    Music: Luna Cantina - A Huevo
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    32 mins
  • 39: General Election Special: Tackling Heath Inequalities

    39: General Election Special: Tackling Heath Inequalities
    Jun 27 2024
    This year marks Women in Sport’s 40th anniversary. We've relaunched our podcast to coincide with the 2024 UK General Election.

    Women and girls belong in sport. But we are less active than men and boys at every stage of our lives.

    27% of women do less than 30 minutes of sporting activity a week. Just 3% of women play in a sports team. 22% fewer girls than boys take part in team sport.

    Stigma, prejudice and taboos about sport, gender and health are holding women and girls back.

    This episode of our podcast looks at how we help the UK step up and recognise the value and importance of sport to women and girls.

    [Warning: There is a section midway through this episode where there's a bit of swearing]

    Presenter:
    Julia George, journalist, broadcaster and former gymnast

    Guests:
    Gary Leybourne the CEO of Coach Core, a charity which creates sports coaching apprenticeships across the UK.

    Rachel Williams works for Women in Sport in policy and public affairs, managing our relationships with politicians, decision-makers and government.

    Dr Bella Smith was labelled ‘not particularly sporty’ at school now she’s a passionate distance runner and is a co-founder of The Well HQ, a movement that aims to help girls and women feel they truly belong in sport.

    About Women in Sport

    Women in Sport was founded in 1984 and its vision is that no-one is excluded from the joy, fulfilment and lifelong benefits of sport and exercise.

    Recognising that gender stereotypes and institutional bias are holding women back in life and in sport, the charity’s purpose is to give every woman and girl the opportunity to take part and inspire her to do so.

    DONATE and support our work here

    Find out more about us here

    Follow Us
    Instagram – Instagram.com/womeninsport_uk

    X – x.com/womeninsport_uk

    LinkedIn – linkedin.com/company/women-in-sport

    TikTok – tiktok.com/@womeninsport

    Thank you to David Prest at Whistledown Productions for the use of the studio to record this podcast.

    Recorded and mixed by Steven George

    Music: Luna Cantina - A Huevo
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    29 mins
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