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RIO 2016: Women's Golf goes global

Wednesday, August 17 2016 by SNTV
  • As women's golf makes its debut at the Rio Games on Wednesday (17th August), Australia's Su-Hyun Oh and India's Aditi Ashok talked about what it means.

    While male Olympic golfers dropped out of Rio in their droves, for the women becoming Olympians provides a huge platform for their sport. Ahead of the start of the women's Rio Games golf tournament on Wednesday (17th August), Australia's Su-Hyun Oh talked to us about the privilege of being at the Games.

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Su-Hyun Oh, Australian golfer:

    "People ask me do you treat this tournament like a normal tournament. No, I'm like this is.... this happens every four years, this is not like another tournament: this is the Olympics. So I don't want it to be like any other tournament. And this is something different. There's a different feel and vibe to it. When you go out on the golf course you just still playing golf. But to treat it as a tournament, it's just on a separate list. This is something special, I think. It's just different, I don't think it's comparable. It's just as important I think and just really special, yeah."

    Here's eighteen-year-old Aditi Ashok, the only woman representing India at golf:

    SOUNDBITE: (English) Aditi Ashok, Indian golfer:

    "As a female golfer from India, to be here and to be playing the Olympics. It was my goal from 2012 ever since I found out that golf was going to be part of it. I worked hard to play in the professional events and I made it happen so I'm really excited."

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