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Sportshour: The Athlete Who Didn't Know Who She Was

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Finding my identity

07/05/2016 GMT

The Athlete Who Didn't Know Who She Was

BBC World Service - Sportshour, The Athlete Who Didn't Know Who She Was

Meet Claire Hanna, the former volleyball player who lost her identity

What do you do when your identity is taken away? Meet Claire Hanna, the volleyball player who lost her identity

When you meet someone you've never met before, how do you introduce yourself? It's as if someone has asked you to sum up who you are in one sentence. For many athletes their identity is their sport

So what happens when your identity is taken from you? Claire Hanna - a member of the Canadian women's volleyball team - found out when she was told by her coach that her international career was over, and that she was no longer a volleyball player.

Through the Payne Barrier
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne about life on and off the track. One of 11 children, she lost her mother at a very young age. She has overcome many barriers in a male-dominated sport and her victory not only brought her to prominence, but made a star out of her brother Stevie Payne. He is a strapper, who helps look after Prince of Penzance, Stevie also has Down's Syndrome.

“Sport Will Beat the Killers”
There's just a month to go before the start of EURO 2016 in France. While players are winding up their club games - the police are already in action to ensure the event is safe for fans. We’ve been in Toulouse where French authorities staged a mock terrorist attack. We speak to Toulouse FC manager Pascal Dupraz.

Bowled Over:
The World Ten-Pin Bowling Champion, Britain’s Dom Barrett makes the case for the sports inclusion in the Olympics

Lyrical Leicester:
What better way to celebrate the remarkable story of Leicester City than by imagining the whole thing had been a fairy tale. We enlist the help of a poet and a fox to tell the tale.

Torch and Go:
Will the President of Brazil still be in office by the time the Olympic Games start in August? Whatever comes to pass for President Dima Rouseff, she put her political difficulties behind her and took the Olympic flame as it began its journey through more than three hundred towns and cities in Brazil ending in Rio. Sportshour was there to see it.

Sporting Witness… In 1980, the newly independent nation of Zimbabwe was invited to enter a women's hockey team at the Olympic Games in Moscow. Despite their unfamiliarity with the pitches - and each other - the players won an unexpected gold medal and were christened the Daughters of Zimbabwe by President Mugabe. Liz Chase was a member of that Zimbabwean team.
 
Photo: Claire Hanna reporting on a volleyball match after her retirement Credit Claire Hanna

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