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A look at Margaret Thatcher鈥檚 use of sport as a tool for politics. She failed in wanting Britain to stay away from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, Neil Carter, a Senior Research Fellow at the International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De Montfort University, explains why her boycotts did not work.

We focus at how far women have come in attaining positions of power in Sports administration. Katie Blackburn, the Executive Vice President of the NFL鈥檚 Cincinnati Bengals is the only woman in the NHL to hold that position and South Africa鈥檚 first female boxing promoter, Jodie Solomon.

Green jackets are an acceptable form of attire at Augusta, the home of Golf鈥檚 US Masters, but up until recently women have not been admitted. Martha Burke led the campaign to have that changed.

(Image: Members of the England Football Squad enjoying a joke with Mrs Margaret Thatcher. Credit: David Levenson/Getty Images)