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(February 14, 2001) The Sports Factor Australian Broadcasting Corporation Radio National: Friday 16 February 2001 @ 8.30am & 8.30pm, Plus Radio Australia: This week, cheating in disabled sport. The International Paralympic Committee has suspended all athletes with an intellectual disability, as a result of the discovery that most of the Spanish basketball team - gold medallists at last year's Paralympics - were imposters. MARIE LITTLE, from the International Federation of Sport for People with Intellectual Disability, says this global suspension is a discriminatory over-reaction. Plus, a new take on the Battle of the Sexes in sport. Remember when tennis champion Billie Jean King took on Bobby Riggs, back in 1973? This time round, it's a golf series, where women's number one player Karrie Webb is challenging four top male golfers. But is this sort of playing out of gender politics through sport still of public interst? The high profile defection of Wendell Sailor from Rugby League to Rugby Union has re-ignited debate about whether the two codes should merge. MURRAY PHILLIPS, who lectures in sports studies at the University of Queensland, discusses whether a reunion of the rugbys is feasible or desirable. [**Transcriptions and RealAudio of THE SPORTS FACTOR are available at www.abc.net.au/rn from each Monday following broadcast. Amanda Smith, smith.amanda@abc.net.au, Michael Shirrefs,
shirrefs.michael@abc.net.au, Tel: 613-9626 1643/1644; Fax: 613 962 61621] |
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