Edwin Moses: Sport and the race for change
The Story
The Times
3.9 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 18 June 2020
⏱️ 28 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
For years, many elite black athletes felt they had to hold back from commenting on race and racism. Today multi-Olympic gold medallist Edwin Moses speaks out.
Host: Manveen Rana.
Guests:
Edwin Moses, Double Olympic 400m Hurdles champion.
David Walsh, Sunday Times Chief Sports Writer.
This podcast was brought to you thanks to subscribers of The Times and The Sunday Times. To enjoy unlimited digital access to all our journalism subscribe here.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Sport, race and politics have often collided throughout history. |
| 0:08.0 | Sports is a great tool and a great teacher and can be a very very powerful instrument. But for many black athletes, even the |
| 0:16.6 | greats, when they talked about race, the world wasn't always ready to listen. |
| 0:29.2 | It was like things that he had been bottling up for decades suddenly came kind of bursting through a dam. |
| 0:34.0 | You're listening to stories of our times from the Times and the Sunday Times. |
| 0:38.0 | I'm Manveen Rana. |
| 0:40.0 | Today, Sport and the race to change the world. It has the power to change the world. |
| 1:04.0 | It has the power to inspire. |
| 1:08.0 | It has the power to unite people in a way that little us does. |
| 1:17.0 | Back in 2000, in an iconic speech, Nelson Mandela told a venue packed with some of the greatest sports men and women in the world |
| 1:26.9 | about what sport could achieve. |
| 1:29.2 | Sport can create hope where once there was only despair. |
| 1:37.0 | It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. |
| 1:45.0 | Standing behind him on stage was the legendary Olympic |
| 1:49.0 | Herdler, Edwin Moses, winner of 122 consecutive races, a giant in his field, and the chairman of the |
| 1:58.5 | Laureus World Sports Academy. |
| 2:02.0 | I was drafted to be the chairman, I think that afternoon, on a Sunday afternoon, |
| 2:08.0 | he gave this wonderful speech. |
| 2:10.0 | The thing that I remember most is the look on the face of the audience. I got the |
| 2:16.8 | stadium view that I traditionally would get by being on the track. I'm looking |
| 2:21.2 | up into the stands and that night I was looking out into the audience. the This is the greatest weapon mankind has to resolve even the most intractable difficulties. |
| 2:45.0 | That speech was made at the first Lorious World Sports Awards. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Times, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Times and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.