To a long standing issue. Welcome to the bbcs 100 women challenge. Rio dejaneiro is a city famed for its passion for sport. It was home to the 2016 olympic and Paralympic Games and hosted the most recent football world cup in 2014. The beautiful game is adored by millions here but has an ugly past for almost a0 years, women were banned from playing football in brazil. A government decree said it wasnt suited to the female form, so from 1941 to 1979, women could not play. Though the ban is now lifted, its legacy lives on. Its a real struggle for brazilian women to be taken seriously in football. The 100 women challenge has come to rio to try to tackle sexism in sport and find solutions to level the playing field, Inspiring Women here in brazil, and around the world. Taking up the challenge are five women who have just five days to come up with ideas to help improve the situation for female footballers. Time for some introductions. Bia vaz from sao paulo has played for the Brazilian Nati
Ican a bit sad that he is going but maybe i can see other dinosaurs. And what do you think of him . He goes raw he goes raw and coming up in the sport hull citys search for a new manager has started, following the sacking of mike phelan afterjust three months in permanent charge. Good afternoon, and welcome to the bbc news at one. The uks outgoing ambassador to the european union, sir ivan rogers, has attacked the government for Muddled Thinking and ill founded arguments in its approach to brexit. Sir ivan, who resigned yesterday, said he didnt know what ministers Negotiating Objectives were. In his Resignation Letter seen by the bbc he urged colleagues in brussels not to be afraid to speak the truth to those in power. Our political correspondent, ian watson, reports. Camera shy in public, outspoken in private. Sir ivan rogers has exited his role as britains Eu Ambassador. When the bbc revealed his private advice that a trade deal with the eu could take ten years, he was attacked by so
To switzerland on a private plane on sunday morning he took another test and that is the test that showed he was actually covid 19 positive so its a very strange lead up of events that took place in his cove a positive taking place and ten days that he had to self isolate and that is up and over im coming back to race this weekend. Does that mean they would face any retrospective action . They said there is no further action to be addressed from racing point and raising point have issued their own statement is the ceo and the Team Principal and the faa have also said that they are going to change the testing procedure to make sure all personnel are required to be tested on sites before being allowed entry to the paddock but that seems to be the end of the matter as far as theyre concerned. For the first time ever, there will be more womens medals up for grabs than mens in a major multi sports event. The 2022 Commonwealth Games in birmingham will be broadcast by the bbc and the event wi
It would be a Ground Breaking move, certainly one that the Commonwealth Games have never seen the likes of before. Birmingham 2022 announced the sports in their programme last year and shooting and archery werent included. Theyve been involved in every games bar one since 1966. But birmingham said theyre foccused on trying to attract a younger and more diverse audience. These games are going to cost around £800 million as well the most expensive event in the uk since the 2012 olympics. Theyre supposed to be an advert for britian post brexit and an opportunity to facilitate trade deals. But india heard the news about shooting and archery and they threatend to pull out of the entire games. And thats all because of their rich history in the sports. In shooting alone, india won 16 medals in gold coast and overall theyve won 134 63 of them gold. So theyve proposed to host shooting
and archery events 4,000 miles away from birmingham. Now, the events would take place in either new delhi or c
Are clinging on after Marcus Rashford scored the only goal. But city, tactical for rashford scored the only goal. But city, tacticalfor pep rashford scored the only goal. But city, tactical for Pep Guardiola. Make united were all over the place as there was an own goal. They are still in it but onlyjust. Manchester city manager Pep Guardiola expected his sides opponents to fight back despite being 3 0 down at half time. A good result tonight for us. Very dangerous. Hopefully our people, they can support us like Manchester United and qualify again in the final. Will let them play and our heads dropped. We make decisions we shouldnt and that half time and i thought the half is a good response thought the half is a good response though it is a Steep Mountain to climb we have to climate. Senegals sadio mane has been named the confederation of african footballs player of the year. The liverpool forward beat team mate Mohamed Salah and manchester citys riyad mahrez to the award. Mane helped