Hidden Sport: Korfball
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 30 April 2022
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Kim Tserkezie discovers the fast-paced sport of korfball, which lays claim to being the only full gender-equal team sport in the world. Kim learns about the positive impact korfball has had and explores what other sports could learn from its pioneering approach to gender equality.
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| 0:00.0 | I had this secret. I robbed banks in my spare time. |
| 0:06.3 | Lives less ordinary from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:09.6 | This is not a good thing to do because police are after you. |
| 0:14.8 | Find out more at the end of this podcast. |
| 0:17.3 | I'm here in my home city of Newcastle in northeast England. |
| 0:32.3 | Witnessing a sport. I've never heard of before and it's right on my doorstep. |
| 0:37.5 | Somebody had said come join cough or it's really friendly and I'd spent |
| 0:41.3 | first year being a bit lonely so I decided to join and it's been like the whole |
| 0:47.2 | pinnacle of my unique experience really. |
| 0:50.2 | You're listening to Hidden Sport on the BBC World Service. |
| 0:54.8 | My name is Kim Zikersi and I might just be the only sport you could meet. |
| 1:01.0 | As a disabled person I felt pressure right back from my childhood to play |
| 1:07.3 | sport like I need to prove I can be physically active to be successful. |
| 1:13.1 | Be the Paralympian. I rarely watch sport or play it. |
| 1:19.2 | But whilst my relationship with sport may be a complicated one I do recognise |
| 1:24.4 | how important it is to communities across the globe. |
| 1:28.1 | We get to plan the same team which is great and we get to share all these |
| 1:31.1 | experiences where we've had our highs we've had our lows and the idea that I |
| 1:35.6 | can get to share it with the person that I love is amazing. |
| 1:39.1 | In this series I want to be taken out of my comfort zone. |
| 1:43.5 | I think when we're looking at some of the systemic challenges in society |
| 1:48.0 | which inequality would be one, climate change, a whole range of issues |
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