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Could Tokyo 2020 the best ever Olympics for female athletes?
At noon today the Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo Olympics 2020 will begin - a year later than planned - thanks to Covid. Team GB are taking more women athletes than men for the first time in 125 years - of the 376 athletes selected, 201 are female. So could this be the best ever games for women?
We talk to Dame Katherine Grainger, Britain's joint most decorated female Olympian, and now Chair of UK Sport; Nicola Adams, double Olympic boxing champion; Anna Kessel, Women's Sport Editor at The Telegraph; and Team GB artistic swimmers Kate Shortman and Izzy Thorpe.
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