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To mark International Women鈥檚 Day Sportshour speaks to some of the most influential women in sport. Celebrating achievements and identifying the next challenges in the fight for equality.

Maria Sharapova
The world鈥檚 wealthiest female athlete Maria Sharapova tells Sportshour about balancing off court business brands and on court challenges, on the importance of image to the financial success of sportswomen and on how to get more women involved in sport.

Cricket
Sportshour investigates the impact on the global game of a watershed moment in English women鈥檚 cricket history. Will the professionalisation of the England national team mean the biggest barrier to elite participation vanishes?

Football
Former Australia international footballer Moya Dodd used to have to sew on the badge to her own kit before an international. Now one of only 3 women members of governing body FIFA鈥檚 executive committee, she tells us how far women鈥檚 football has come and whether we will ever see a female coach in the men鈥檚 game.

Paralympics
As the Paralympics start in Sochi the IPC will be announcing its International Women鈥檚 Day award winner. We speak to nominee Jannie Hammershoi on how Goalball saved her sense of self and on whether we are closer to achieving equality for women or disabled people.

Netball
New Zealander Melissa Hyndman on the unique sacrifices women have to make to get to the top of elite sport, and on why men can鈥檛 really handle coaching women鈥檚 teams. And if women took charge of men鈥檚 team could results improve?

Athletics
Paula Radcliffe joins us from the World Indoor Championships to look how athletics challenges arcane perceptions of women across the globe.

FOOCS
This weeks From Our Own Correspondent comes from 大象传媒 TV Cycling reporter Jill Douglas. Having followed the British team all over the globe, the recent World Track Cycling took her to Columbia for the first time.

Sporting Witness
In 1992 the Canadian skuller, Silken Laumann, was seriously injured in a violent collision with another boat. Despite having her leg shattered and being told she would never row again, Laumann underwent five operations and hours of gruelling rehabilitation to make the Olympic final just weeks later. She won a bronze medal and became a national hero in Canada.

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