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KATHRYN OLSON: We want to make sure that girls
have equal opportunity to boys in
terms of playing sports.
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[TEXT: Sports in America
"Women’s Sports"]
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Billie Jean King is an icon.
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Back in the '70s when Billie was known primarily as a tennis
champion and she was in the midst of her career,
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[TEXT: Kathryn Olson, CEO, Women Sports Foundation]
she also cared very much to make sure that other girls
would have the opportunity to play sport.
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And that’s when she founded the Women’s Sports Foundation.
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[TEXT: Julie Foudy, Captain, 1999 U.S. Women’s Soccer Team]
As she used to always say to me, "What’s best for the next
generation? What do you want for the next generation?"
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If you have a clean slate… that’s what you should be fighting for.
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And we pushed, we pushed hard for, you know,
why isn’t there a women’s World Cup?
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Why isn’t there an Olympics for women’s soccer?
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SECRETARY CLINTON: As we celebrate Title IX, as we
celebrate our sports exchanges,
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we’ll encourage even more people to get behind women
and girls in sports.
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HEATHER O'REILLY: We have 20-year old guys, you know,
knowing our names now and we have men that
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[TEXT: Heather O’Reilly, Midfielder, Women’s Soccer Team]
have only watched NFL now sort of into women’s soccer.
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HOPE SOLO: We know what it takes to fight, and you can tell,
[TEXT: Hope Solo, Goalkeeper, U.S. Women's Soccer Team]
it exudes out of us, and I think that people are attracted to that
kind of passion.
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FOUDY: I hope other countries see that if they put their resources
behind women sports it can be a hugely successful event
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and you can create a successful sport in your country
where people will start to follow it,
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because you have so many girls that want to play.
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GIRL 1: I’m going to be practicing and I’m going to try to get goals.
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GIRL 2: When I push myself really hard, I can accomplish anything.
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