The Sports Factor

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Debating and celebrating the cultural significance of sport: it's much, much more than a game. The Sports Factor debates and celebrates the cultural significance of sport: it's much, much more than a game. A weekly half-hour program which looks at how sport intersects with other social institutions like politics, economics, art, religion, law, and health.

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  Sports Factor 2008-11-28
  Fri, 28 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  Shane Gould: to move is to live As a precociously talented fifteen year-old Shane Gould was a shining star of the 1972 Munich Olyjmpics. She then quit elite swimming, but her commitment to exercise and the physical dimension of life never faltered. Now she's one of the country's most consistent advocates of the need to keep active.
  
  
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  Sports Factor 2008-11-21
  Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  Show me the money, if there's any left The world financial crisis is causing governments on every continent to review their spending priorities, so what will it mean for the dollars dished out to sport, at both the elite and community levels? The rise of women's football Womenīs football is booming. In fact, itīs arguably the fastest growing sport in the country.
  
  
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  Sports Factor 2008-11-14
  Fri, 14 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  Batman wears gloves, and walks Adam Gilchrist was a singular presence in the Australian cricket team - a player who wore his heart on his sleeve and pursued the spirit of the game as much as victory. Meet the man who made the most out of his time in the middle.
  
  
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  Sports Factor 2008-11-07
  Fri, 07 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +1000
  Boy racer gets the chequered flag Lewis Hamilton is rewriting the motor racing record books. Young, black and British, heīs injecting new interest into what many consider to be the declining world of Formula one. The Maharajah of Moorabbin Robert Harvey is an old-school Aussie Rules player. He played his whole senior career with just one club, St Kilda, and outlasted almost all of his contemporaries.