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National Sporting Heritage Day, 30th Sept #NSHD2025
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So, to all our female sporting stars, whatever your sport may be, keep shining your light to inspire future generations of women in sporting history.
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Initially sparked by her searing sense of injustice at being barred from a group photo of junior players at a tournament at the LA Tennis Club in 1955 for wearing the shorts her mother had made her, Billie’s subsequent fight for equality arguably reached its denouement in 1973.
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Billie Jean King (American former world No. 1 tennis player) 🎾
Her own 'sporting heritage', combining world-class performance with equally inspirational social advocacy, helped to define the drive for change and equality that fuelled the early stages of the women's movement in the 1960s.
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'Sport', as Nelson Mandela once so famously observed, 'has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire…
...So if sport is indeed a form of educational Esperanto, then it is additionally a microcosm of society.