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Sportshour: Margaret Thatcher - Her impact on wider sporting culture

The England Football Squad with Margaret Thatcher

13/04/2013

Margaret Thatcher - Her impact on wider sporting culture

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Margaret Thatcher - Her impact on wider sporting culture

The impact the former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had on Sport.

Sports Hour, presented by Caroline Barker, joined by the authors and broadcasters, Tom Watt and Mihir Bose to discuss the effect Margaret Thatcher had on football and much more.

A look at Margaret Thatcher’s use of sport as a tool for politics. She failed in wanting Britain to stay away from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Neil Carter, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, explains why her boycotts did not work.

We focus at how far women have come in attaining positions of power in Sports administration. Katie Blackburn, the Executive Vice President of the NFL’s Cincinnati Bengals is the only woman in the NHL to hold that position and South Africa’s first female boxing promoter, Jodie Solomon.

Green jackets are an acceptable form of attire at Augusta, the home of Golf’s US Masters, but up until recently women have not been admitted. Martha Burke led the campaign to have that changed.

(Image: Members of the England Football Squad enjoying a joke with Mrs Margaret Thatcher. Credit: David Levenson/Getty Images)

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