Racism & Sport Discussion | Featuring Olympic Games medallist & Liverpool FC fan Anyika Onuora

Blood Red: The Liverpool FC Podcast

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4.4 • 1000 Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Olympic Games medallist, and Liverpool FC fan, Anyika Onuora, recently joined Gurmej Singh Pawar, chairman of Barford Tigers Hockey Club and co-founder of the ‘All in Movement’ programme designed to make hockey inclusive, for a special Racism & Sport discussion, hosted by Greg Johnson, the head of regional sport for Reach PLC, the company that own Blood Red and the Liverpool ECHO. From Euro 2020 to the Olympics in Tokyo, it has been a summer in which race has taken centre stage. And you can now watch the discussion with Greg, Gurmej and Liverpool-born Anyika, who won women’s 4x400m relay bronze at the 2016 Rio Olympics, right here on Blood Red. Get exclusive podcasts direct to your inbox every week for FREE by joining the Blood Red Club. Sign up at http://www.bloodredpodcast.co.ukWatch and subscribe to our Blood Red videos on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/BloodRedLiverpoolFCJoin our Blood Red podcast group on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1656599847979758/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and thank you all for signing up and attending today.
0:04.3	We are set to welcome over 150 attendees to this event on race and sport and we are very
0:09.3	much appreciative of your time.
0:11.0	Join a summer that is again showing showing how vitally important this subject is.
0:16.3	My name is Greg Johnson, I'm head of Regional Sport for Reach PLC and today will be chairing
0:21.3	the discussion with our brilliant panelists, Anika Anora and Germage Singh Powa.
0:25.3	So please allow me to introduce them both to you properly. Anika Anora is a former Olympian who won bronze at Rio 2016 and has also won medals in the relay as an
0:35.5	as an individual sprinter in the world and European championships. Anika is the host of Hidden
0:42.1	Greatness Podcast which is all about how talented people can use their subconsciousness to find success and is releasing her autobiography, My Hidden Race, in March 2022 through Reach Sport.
0:53.0	Anika is also Ambassador for Malaria, No More UK
0:56.0	and a columnist for Reach's Olympic newsletter, The Torch,
0:59.0	which is running throughout the summer's Olympic Games,
1:01.0	on the Mirror and all other titles.
1:03.7	Hello Anika and welcome to the panel.
1:05.7	Hi, Greg, great to be here.
1:08.7	Oh, thank you for coming.
1:10.8	How are you today?
1:11.8	Great, great, great, good thanks. All good.
1:16.6	Cracking. And of course we have Gummage Singh Parwa as well, who is CEO of Medge Media and
1:22.0	chairman of Hockey Club Club Barford Tigers.
1:24.4	He is co-founder of Hockey Allin, a group that works to address racism, elitism and promote
1:29.9	diversity inclusion in hockey. In 2020, Germage prompted England hockey
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