"We can't leave it up to the group experiencing the pain and harm to fix the thing," she says. "I understand why men have a hard times, why there are barriers to taking a stand for female specific issues" The quest to make the Olympics is a key current that goes through her book. But now as a coach, you're challenging what success looks like,. You say success is an empowered athlete, not just a winning athlete.
International Women's Week on Intelligence Squared. Equality is no longer enough, women need equity - that's the message of former US 5000m champion, Lauren Fleshman who joins us on this episode of the podcast to speak about the vital need for the world of sport to be reimagined for women. In conversation with host Sophie Penney, sports journalist for Reuters and The Athletic, Lauren looks back at her own career to examine the damaging mental and physical effects of young women being trained in line with the physiological development of a male body, the financial realities of being a professional female athlete, and what it means to be a successful athlete.
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