Chris Stafford & Nancy Gillen have the week's top stories in women's sport from around the world.
US Sweep 2019 FIFA Awards
https://www.ussoccer.com/stories/2019/09/megan-rapinoe-and-jill-ellis-honored-as-fifa-womens-world-player-and-coach-of-the-year
FIFA President Assured that Iran will allow women to attend soccer matches
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1085069/fifa-assured-iran-female-fans
Three Olympic Champions to miss World Champs due to DSD rules
First female vice-president elected to IAAF
https://www.iaaf.org/news/press-release/sebastian-coe-president-congress-2019-restrep?utm_source=elections&utm_medium=silverpop&utm_campaign=Coe%20re-elected%20as%20IAAF%20President%2C%20Restrepo%20elected%20first%20ever%20female%20Vice%20President&utm_content=article-title
Three Olympic Champions to miss World Champs due to DSD rules
Listen to the Olympic Channel Podcast to hear their stories.
https://www.olympicchannel.com/stories/news/detail/olympic-channel-podcast/
Inequality in Nordic Combined
https://www.rallyme.com/rallies/17345/tgm
World Weight Lifting Championships
https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1085130/live-blog-iwf-world-championships
Ghana Olympic Committee President calling for more female executives in sport
Kaillie Humphries being involved in the USA push bobsled championships
World Canoe Slalom and Wildwater Champs
https://www.canoeicf.com
Sept 25-29 Spain
World Beach Games
Oct 12-16 Doha, Qatar
https://www.awbgqatar.com/
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US Eventer Colleen Rutledge from Maryland won the Plantation Fields CCI4* short event this past weekend in Pennsylvania riding her trusted partner the 13 year old gelding Covert Rights. And this win was special for Colleen who has been bringing CR back to fitness again this season following an injury but it has been a challenge for her finding form with him after a bumpy spring outing after which the pair turned a corner and have now been in the top three in the last four outings. Her goal is to consolidate this fall with Morven Park and then Fairhill CCI4-L with the aim of returning to Kentucky for the CCI5L in the spring.  Chris Stafford caught up with Colleen earlier this week.
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On episode 5 Erin McGuire discusses mentally rehearsing your performance. Visualization has several names: mental rehearsal, imagery, guided imagery- are just a few of the interchangeable terms used to describe this skill. Visualization refers to imagining yourself performing, as if you were real-time in the moment, executing your play perfectly, exactly as planned.. 
Visualization incorporates all senses to create the most realistic image in the athlete’s head. Start by finding a comfortable place with limited distractions, you can close your eyes if that helps. Bring your attention to your breathing, slowing your breaths signaling your body to relax and clearing your headspace. Then, step into your playing field. What are you seeing? Hearing? Feeling? Even smelling or tasting come into play in certain sports. Once you’ve created your playing field, rehearse your performance. You are imaging yourself executing your skill perfectly, confidently, from start to finish.
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Our guest this week is Shelly Wilson the founder and CEO of Sports on the Lips a Canadian professional networking platform aimed at empowering, equipping, and elevating the voices of women in the sports business. Their tag line is ‘Giving Women A Sporting Chance’ and the aim is to become the Linkedin of women’s sport by creating a subscription based membership for access to mentors and resources across the sports world.  Shelly shares her own journey in sports marketing and where she hopes to take this fledgling organization to give women a network for their career.
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Exercise-induced pooping or the runner’s trots is such a common problem. It’s also quite a taboo one as not many people are open about the secrets of their bowels. This podcast addresses it head on. Why does exercise make people need to poo? Why is the poo that strikes you when you’re racing usually runny and explosive? We explore the theories that might explain this phenomenon. Dr. Juliet moves on to give lots of tips and advice for you if you are affected by the runner’s trots. There are plenty of ideas for you to try to stop it happening, from keeping food diaries to listening to music before an important race. Most importantly, you will find out that you are not alone.
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Nancy Gillen and Chris Stafford discuss the top stories in women's sport this week:
Europe Regains Solheim Cup by narrowest of margins after USA miss a crucial putt
Doping cases involving Briana Williams, Carina Horn, Michelle-Lee Ayhe
World Athletics Championships - Sept 27-Oct 6
Women's 800m medal reallocation awards Alisa Montana the bronze
FIFA should suspend Iranian Football Federation after death of female fan
Double Olympic bobsleigh champion alleges "verbal and mental abuse" at hands of coach
Canada's double Olympic bobsleigh champion Kaillie Humphries Suing Bobsleigh Canada for abuse
Sky Brown (GBR) 11, won world skateboarding  bronze medal
Hannah Roberts - BMX gold medal at Urban Games despite kit and bike arriving late.
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Welcome to the first episode of The Mind Matters with Dr. Jenny Susser in conversation with Chris Stafford. The last few years of ground-breaking and shaking from the rise of the #MeToo movement. The #MeToo movement originated in the corporate world in 2006 and picked up a full head of steam in 2017 with a Twitter hashtag and resonance for women across the world. In the sports world, sexual misconduct, abuse, and harassment have been all too common for far too long… with little to no conversation about it. As with any movement, push back, resistance, and disbelief are perhaps the early winners, but determination and commitment are beginning to overtake and create a safer future for everyone involved. On this first episode Jenny addresses our belief system, reacting versus responding and our need to know to provide us with a sense of certainty.
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On the show this week we catch up with Grand Prix dressage rider Lauren Asher at her training base in The Netherlands. Lauren grew up in Colorado, and started riding at the age of five trying a few different disciplines such as Western riding and Hunter Jumping. By the time she turned eleven Lauren realized that she wanted to focus exclusively on dressage and competed up to FEI Juniors level, where she earned many regional and Rocky Mountain Dressage Society Championship titles.  In 2014, Lauren and her two horses moved to San Diego, California for a wider selection of selection of competitions and dressage trainers.  A year later she represented the USDF Region 5 at the FEI North American Young Rider's Championships riding Lysias. With De Noir she placed in many of the CDIs on the California circuit at Young Rider's level and in 2016 was selected to compete in the American Young Rider European Tour, competing in the CDI-Y Compiègne and CDIO-Y Hagen, in the Young Rider's Nations Cup.  Lauren decided to be based in the Netherlands for most of the year then spending winters on the Florida circuit where she has achieved consistent results. In 2017, Lauren competed the mare Hønnerups Event at CDI Young Rider's level, with good placings in Europe and North America. In Compiègne, they earned the second place in the Young Rider Kür with a 74.000%. In July in Saugerties, New York, Lauren and her mare earned the silver medal in the kür at the FEI North American Young Rider Championships.
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Our guest today is 86 year old  American track & field athlete Irene Obera who specializes in sprint events and during her extended career she has set many world records and won numerous world championships. She is currently a member of the W70 world record holding 4x100 metres relay team. She also holds the current American record in the W60 and W75 100 metres and the W75 200 metres.  Her accolades are so many and in July 2014, at San Francisco Track and Field Club's Pride Track & Field Meet in Hayward, California she broke two world records in 80m hurdles and 200m hurdles.marking her sixth and seventh world titles that year. A pioneer in Masters athletics, in 1996, Obera was elected into the inaugural class of the USATF Masters Hall of Fame. Irene does not ease up on her training. A typical week includes tennis 2-3 times, gym 4 times, track 3 times and bowling 2-3.  Her next major competition is the 2020 World Masters Championships.
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Our guest today is Jane Thurnell-Read who believes in competing against herself rather than others and now in her 70’s maintains a strict fitness and dietary regime. Jane says she was extremely unfit as a child and lost her way in her twenties with excessive smoking and drinking the hard stuff. It was a lifestyle she completely turned when she started going to the gym and swimming.  By the time she was In her forties she had taken to cycling and in her early sixties she began a more serious gym routine. A vegetarian for most of her adult life she decided to become vegan in her late sixties and is now a trustee for the vegan charity, Veganuary.  Jane’s philosophy is to strive to engage others in physical activity and a careful diet to convince older people that they need to invest in themselves and their fitness. She uses social meeting to prove that it’s never too late to lead an athletic life by setting yourself active goals.
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