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Sportshour: 'The Olympics needs golf more than golf need the Olympics'

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Should Golf be at the Olympics

02/07/2016 GMT

'The Olympics needs golf more than golf need the Olympics'

BBC World Service - Sportshour, 'The Olympics needs golf more than golf need the Olympics'

After some high profile golfers withdrew from the Olympics, should golf be in the Games?

After several high profile golfers withdrew from the Olympics, should the sport be in the Games?

Following the withdrawal of several golfers from this year’s Olympic competition, including the world number one Jason Day, we ask if golf should be an Olympic discipline at all. Former pro Dottie Pepper tells us that it shouldn’t and that “the Olympics needs golf more than golf need the Olympics”, all of which is likely to annoy the chairman of the Professional Squash Association Ziad Al-Turki, who joins us too.

Formula One: The Archduke of the Austrian Grand Prix 
When Austria played Hungary at Euro 2016 we spoke to Ferdinand Habsburg, who just happens to not only be the Archduke of Austria but also the Crown Prince of Hungary. But Ferdinand's real passion is motor sport, and at 19 years of age he's already competing in Formula 2.0. So with the Austria Grand Prix on Sunday - we've brought the Archduke of Austria, or Ferdinand as he lets me call him - back to the studio.

Pat Summit: The Life and Legacy of a Legend  
Legendary basketball coach Pat Summitt died this week at the age of 64, five years after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. Pat won two Olympic medals, silver as a player in 1976, and gold as a coach at the 1984 games in Los Angeles. Off the court she had a profound impact on empowering women in sport, culminating in being awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Under her guidance the University of Tennessee recorded over a thousand victories, the most in college basketball history, for any coach - man or woman. Olympic gold medallist Kara Lawson played under Summitt at Tennessee and is chair of the Pat Summitt Foundation.

Winners:
In the lead up to the Olympic Games we're bringing you the stories of six women from around the world and how they came to excel at their sport. All the obstacles, failures and triumphs along the way. In the second of our series, we hear from Dipa Karmakar, a gymnast from India. When Dipa first competed, she had to borrow an oversized, ill-fitting costume.  Her sport has little financial backing in India, and so her bronze medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games is even more remarkable.

E-games in Rio:
From a sport like golf with a seemingly lukewarm attitude to the Games, to one that's so determined to establish its Olympic credentials, it's organising its own competition in Rio in August! That sport is 'eGames' and comprises the very best video-game players from around the world. Sportshour's Austin Halewood looks at this new tournament which will offer medals and national pride rather than cash prizes for the winners. 

Sporting Witness… In 1975, Arthur Ashe beat the world number one Jimmy Connors to become the first African-American to win Wimbledon. Ashe's friend and agent, Donald Dell, recalls that memorable match - and about what else Ashe might have achieved if he had not died young.

Photo: View of the golf course for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games (Credit: Buda Mendes/Getty Images)

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