Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Whoever first said that politics and sport shouldnt mix, well, they were wasting their breath. Theyve always mixed. And why wouldnt they, given the huge part that sport plays in our culture . Right now, england is consumed by an agonising debate about racism in football after three black players on the national team were targeted for vile abuse, but it affects other sports, too. This is lords, the headquarters of English Cricket. My Guest Today is the former West Indian Fast Bowler michael holding, who has become a prominent voice confronting racism. But is this a fight that sport can win . Michael holding, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Thank you, stephen. It is pretty much exactly a year since you used your platform as a Cricket Commentator to speak with great Eloquence And Passion about the continued damage being done to society by racism. Now, in the year since then, do you see any signs of progress . Definitely. I see quite a few signs of p
Governor general is sworn welcome to tokyo where the first medal of day four has been won the first medals of day four of the Tokyo Olympics have been won. Bermuda the smallest nation by population getting their first ever gold. Most of the islands 65,000 would have watched their fellow bermudian Flora Duffy cross the finishing line in the womens triathlon. Within the last few minutes, Tom Dean of britain won the Gold Medal in the mens 200 Metres Freestyle and fellow briton Duncan Scott won silver. Heres how the overall Medal Tally looks at the start of day 4 japan leads with 8 golds, one more than the us and two ahead of china. We can now speak to Bill Zuill whos the digital editor of the royal gazette, iimagine the i imagine the celebrations are pretty busy and frantic in bermuda. Pretty busy and frantic in bermuda pretty busy and frantic in bermuda. , , bermuda. Definitely, but it is. Uite bermuda. Definitely, but it is quite late bermuda. Definitely, but it is quite late here, berm