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An Intergenerational Dialogue on Women in Sport – Learning from the Past, Looking to the Future
Imagining Ourselves Team
United StatesGALLERYCONVERSATION
Those summers were a wonderful time. It was in college, however, that I truly discovered my passion for sport and...
Charmaine: My first real inspiration was my parents. I basically got involved with sport, by virtue of the fact that my whole family was involved in it.
Pernilla: I started to ski when I was quite young – only three or four years old – because my parents liked to ski on the winter holidays, but I didn’t begin to compete until I was twelve. That was because my sister started to go to a ski club at home and like any little sister, I followed her. It just continued from there.
Rania: My family was very focused on sport. We had players in almost every one of the nineteen sports available at the Egyptian sports clubs. I had three cousins in tennis, my father was a volleyball player and my grandfather was a soccer player. They insisted that my siblings and I played a sport, but it was fun for us.
A: It knew that it took a huge amount of work and commitment to make the US Olympic Rowing Team. Rowing also demands an ability to be a team player in ways that no other sport requires. After my final race at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games, I learned another very important life lesson. Simply put, I learned how hard I could work without dying. This lesson has given me strength for all that I do.
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