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SPORT: "There's Gonna Be Women Everywhere" Tokyo 2020 Olympics ITSO Podcast Takeover

The ITSO podcast team discuss the women and issues to look out for at the 2020 Olympics.

Fadumo and Lipa present 'I Think She’s Offside', a podcast all about under-represented conversations in sport. In this takeover episode they are joined by sports presenter and model Anita Jones to discuss the women they can’t wait to see smash it at the forthcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics, and get into everything from podium finishes to periods, and the Paralympics.

00:06 - Who's who?
01:26 - What does the Olympics mean to us?
03:28 - Marion Jones, the rise and fall
04:50 - 50/50 Representation
08:30 - "You can be an Olympian in anything now..."
09:35 - Bouldering "real life Spider men and women"
10:50 - Where would we represent?
12:40 - "Don't sleep on the Paralympics"
15:00 - The powerful stories behind the female athletes
15:56 - Shelly Ann Fraser Pryce
18:00 - "women bleed - get over it"
19:00 - Endometriosis and Olympians

Presented by Fadumo Olow and Lipa Nessa (@sheisoffside) and joined by guest Anita Jones (@AnitaNnekaJones)
Produced by Paul Carlin, Ally McCrae & Ross Semple
Senior Producers are Kirsty Drain & Paul McFadyen
Exec Producer is Anthony Browne

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