The Paris 2024 Summer time Olympics are the primary within the occasion’s historical past to be absolutely gender equal, with a fair variety of locations being provided to female and male rivals. The emblem for the Video games is, the organisers say, “a homage a homage to feminine athletes and a nod to historical past, because it was in 1900 on the Olympic Video games in Paris that ladies had been first allowed to compete.”
It’s becoming, then, that the primary episode of the model new Athletics Weekly podcast focuses not solely on the occasions to return within the French capital over the approaching weeks, but in addition on the feminine athletes who’ve modified the face of athletics.
This episode sees AW Editorial Director Euan Crumley joined by Managing Director and Olympic medallist Wendy Sly, in addition to Head of Digital Jason Henderson. There’s additionally a particular visitor look from 2004 double Olympic champion Dame Kelly Holmes, who provides her ideas on the probabilities of this 12 months’s 800m gold medal favorite Keely Hodgkinson.
The crew pinpoint a number of the main occasions to return within the Olympic schedule and the athletes prone to stand out, however there may be additionally a journey again in time by 40 years to LA 1984, the version that many individuals see as having created the Olympics as we now know them. It was a part of a golden age for athletics and Wendy relives what it was like behind the scenes and on the Coliseum observe throughout a landmark Video games for feminine athletes.
Will the 2024 Video games additionally stand out? Begin your journey to the Paris Olympics with The Athletics Weekly Podcast.
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