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Kathleen Lahey on creating true gender equality in sport

August 17, 2012
| Queens law professor Kathleen Lahey speaks about positive change in sport and how the International Olympic Committee's definition of 'equality' is far off the mark.
Length: 25:25 minutes (23.28 MB)
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Olympics are a relic of the 20th century

2012 Olympics logo on the Olympic clock. Photo: Ben Sutherland/Flickr

Based on columnist Cathal Kelly's criterion for Olympic greatness -- not how many medals you collect but what you embody for your times -- I'd call the highlight of week one the performance by Queen Elizabeth and James Bond on opening night. If they returned for week two, I'd watch them in anything: beach volleyball, synchro diving, badminton -- they were peerless.

Counter Olympics Network holds protest on opening weekend of London Games

On Saturday, July 28, the Counter Olympics Network (CON) held a demonstration in London on the first full day of the 2012 Summer Olympic Games. 

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