Sportshour

Duathlete Chris Mosier is not only the first transman to make a men's US National Team; he also successfully campaigned for the International Olympic Committee to change their policy on transgender athletes. The rule changes brought in this year now mean athletes like Chris can represent their country at the Olympic Games.Pakistani Pain: A population of nearly 200,000,000 and not one has automatically qualified for any of the twenty eight disciplines at the Rio Olympics! Not even the hockey team who have won 8 of the 10 medals in the country's Olympic history, have qualified this time around. Instead, Pakistan will send 7 athletes in 4 sports all of whom have been invited to take part, wild card entries if you like. So why is Pakistani Olympic sport in such a terrible state? Manzoor ul Hassan gives us his thoughts. He won Olympic hockey bronze for Pakistan in 1976 and coached the team at the ’88 Games. Olympic Winners: Aya Medany, a modern pentathlete from Egypt is the latest in our series looking at six wome