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Sportshour: Sportshour asks: How could sport look in 2050?

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22/05/2021 GMT

Sportshour asks: How could sport look in 2050?

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Sportshour asks: How could sport look in 2050?

A Sportshour panel of experts discuss what sport could look like in the next thirty years

We’ve brought together a Sportshour mini panel of experts to discuss what Sport could look like in the next thirty years to tie in with the BBC’s Sport 2050 project. 

We’re joined by Claire Poole, who is the Founder and CEO of Sport Positive, Madeleine Orr, who is an Assistant Professor of Sport Management at SUNY Cortland and founder The Sport Ecology Group, and Tanya Aldred, who is a journalist writing and campaigning about cricket and the environment. 

Our guests discuss the impact climate change is having on events and athletes now, how next year’s Winter Olympics could be affected, how we could see fewer top athletes emerge in Africa and the Caribbean in the future and the impact that could have on events like the Marathon and Major League Baseball.

We also talk about the importance of athletes speaking out about climate change and we discuss some imagined scenarios of how sport could look in the year 2050. Throughout the discussion we hear from current and former athletes including: Ski cross Olympic champion Kelsey Serwa Rey and Tottenham and England footballer Eric Dier.

The world’s best in Powerchair football – Australia’s Abdullah Karim – joins us to discuss being compared to Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo, his hopes for next year’s World Cup on home soil and how his mother has helped him achieve what he has. Karim was born with severe scoliosis and limb deficiency and he credits his mum with helping him adapt to using his feet, which he relies on to do pretty much everything in his daily life.

And in Sporting Witness – we tell the inspirational story of Maria Mutola, one of only 4 athletes to compete at six Olympic games and the winner of Mozambique’s first Olympic gold medal.

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