EPISODE · Sep 29, 2018 · 36 MIN
Is it time for a Mixed Ryder Cup?
from Not by the Playbook · host BBC World Service
As the 42nd Ryder Cup takes place in Paris, Caroline Barker, alongside former PGA President Roger Warren and LPGA tour professional Olafia Kristinsdottir, explores whether the competition should follow its junior edition and have teams made up of men and women.When their team folded and their last chance to put themselves in the shop window for next season was taken away, professional cyclists Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packed up their bikes and headed out on an eight day tour of their own from their base in Nice. Former US Champion Larry and Irish Champion Conor take us through the emotions of their "No Go Tour".30 years ago the brand new Olympic 100 metres champion Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics for doping. We look at what's changed since the "the dirtiest race in history" and hear from Calvin Smith, one of only two men in the 1988 final that was never implicated in a drugs scandal or failed a test. We also hear from the founding president of the World Anti-Doping Agency Dick Pound who had to act as Johnson's legal representative at his International Olympic Committee hearing in 1988.Michelle Gormley-McLaughlin hadn't played a game of rugby until her 40th birthday. Seven years on she's just earned her first cap for Ulster, proving it's never too late to take up a new sport.As the regular MLB season draws to a close we're in Colorado with the state's Vintage Base Ball Association as they celebrate and play by the original rules of the sport that date back to 1864 and the American Civil War. And boxer turned actor, turned acting boxer, Brad Moore joins us to talk about his new film "Gloves Off" and explains how two years on the stand-up comedy circuit helped him learn to act at the age of 40.
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As the 42nd Ryder Cup takes place in Paris, Caroline Barker, alongside former PGA President Roger Warren and LPGA tour professional Olafia Kristinsdottir, explores whether the competition should follow its junior edition and have teams made up of men and women.When their team folded and their last chance to put themselves in the shop window for next season was taken away, professional cyclists Larry Warbasse and Conor Dunne packed up their bikes and headed out on an eight day tour of their own from their base in Nice. Former US Champion Larry and Irish Champion Conor take us through the emotions of their "No Go Tour".30 years ago the brand new Olympic 100 metres champion Ben Johnson was stripped of his gold medal at the Seoul Olympics for doping. We look at what's changed since the "the dirtiest race in history" and hear from Calvin Smith, one of only two men in the 1988 final that was never implicated in a drugs scandal or failed a test. We also hear from the founding president of the World Anti-Doping Agency Dick Pound who had to act as Johnson's legal representative at his International Olympic Committee hearing in 1988.Michelle Gormley-McLaughlin hadn't played a game of rugby until her 40th birthday. Seven years on she's just earned her first cap for Ulster, proving it's never too late to take up a new sport.As the regular MLB season draws to a close we're in Colorado with the state's Vintage Base Ball Association as they celebrate and play by the original rules of the sport that date back to 1864 and the American Civil War. And boxer turned actor, turned acting boxer, Brad Moore joins us to talk about his new film "Gloves Off" and explains how two years on the stand-up comedy circuit helped him learn to act at the age of 40.
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