The Danish national men's football team has refused a pay rise that was offered to them for playing for the national team. With this action, the players oppose the unequal payment for women and men in sports. Get all the details on today’s “What’s Right with the world”.
What's right: Sports is healthy, watching sports as well
Regular exercising reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease by 23%, a new study finds. Good news for all those who prefer watching TV: Another recent study shows that even watching sports has positive effects. Get all the details on today's "What's right with the world".
Sportslight: Your weekly sports news with Marco
Every Friday morning, Marco updates you on what's new in the universe of sports. He presents you the most important local and global sports events of the past and the upcoming week.
Unity Run 42 - Interview With Fernand Schaber And Anne Cuvillier From The Unity Foundation
The Unity Foundation is a Luxembourg-based NGO that is committed to the empowerment of communities through education. With projects around the world as well as in Luxembourg, they support local partners to build capacity for education and training development. This May, they will launch a new initiative called the Unity Run 42 which will be taking palce as part of the ING Luxembourg night marathon. Fernand Schaber and Anne Cuvillier from the organisation joined Tom on the Breakfast Show this morning to talk about it.
Interview With Ice Hockey Luxembourg
The National Ice Hockey Championships Semi Finals and Finals take place this weekend in Luxembourg. Head of communication for Ice Hocky Luxembourg Liam McEvoy and Ice Hockey player Mara Wagner joined Tom in the studio this morning to talk us through what you can expect from the tournament.
The Kolléisch's Charity Run - Interview With Anne Kayser From Athénée
The Athénée annual Koléisch's charity run takes place today. Students will be running around the Geeseknäppchen in Merl alongside Pedro De Sousa who will be running continuously for 24 hours whilst fundraising to support the NGO Athénée - Action Humanitaire. Anne Kayser from the school joined Tom over the phone this morning to tell us how people can support Pedro and the students.
(In)equality in sports: National football player Amy Thompson in our interview
Women’s sports events are less attractive because the level is lower. This is an often-used argument to justify female athletes earning less and getting less attention. The argument however, lacks context. Men don’t play better because they are men. They compete on a higher level better because they receive loads of support.
In today’s interview on Local Matters, we talk to Luxembourg national team football player Amy Thompson about the inequalities between men and women that continue to exist in Luxembourg’s professional football.
(In)equality in sports: Voices of the Escher Volleyball Club
Inequalities in scheduling, in funding and promotion - the sports sector still needs a lot of progress to achieve gender equality. For today's Local Matters, we had a visit to the female team of the Escher Volleyball Club EVBC to talk about how they perceive (in)equality between women and men in the local and national volleyball clubs.
RCL Ladies Day
It was a busy studio this morning as Tom was joined by Ruby Hughes, Stella Hughes, Penelope Neighbor, Katie Frank, Victoria Wise and Alessia Hancock from the RCL rugby club along with their coach April Jiang, who came to talk about the RCL Ladies Day that is happening on the 5th of March.
Touch Rugby In Luxembourg: Interview With Alessia Hancock And Albert York From RCL
Tom was joined on the Breakfast Show this morning by 2 rising stars in Luxembourg's growing touch rugby scene. Alessia Hancock and Albert York came on the show today to talk about their experiences playing at the Junior European Championships in Vichy.
Delano Top Of The Week
Today on Delano's Top Of The Week, Duncan Roberts and Tom discussed the upcoming football world cup and the controversy surrounding it ahead of the tournament which kicks off next week in Quatar.
Interview With The Luxembourg Ice Hockey Federation
Liam McEvoy and Sacha Backes joined us in the studio this morning to talk about the upcoming International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) division IIIA World Championships which will be hosted in Luxembourg between the 3rd till the 8th of April.
Luxembourg will play host to United Arab Emirates, Turkey, Chinese Taipei, Turkmenistan over the 6-day tournament. All teams will play each other in a league format with the winning team gaining promotion up to division IIB.
All games will take place at the Patinoire Kockelscheuer with Luxembourg playing at 19:00 on Sunday 3rd , Tuesday 5th , Thursday 7th and Friday 8th. Tickets cost €10 with a tournament pass available at €35.
To get tickets or find out more head to: www.icehockey.lu/home