Ice Hockey's Transgender Star

Dec 23, 2017 · 33m 21s
Ice Hockey's Transgender Star
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Harrison Browne is a professional ice-hockey player with the Metropolitan Riveters in the National Women's Hockey League in the United States. He's won championships, but Harrison is also known for...

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Harrison Browne is a professional ice-hockey player with the Metropolitan Riveters in the National Women's Hockey League in the United States. He's won championships, but Harrison is also known for being the first transgender athlete on a professional US sports team.



On a cold wintry night in 2003, 89 merry Union Berlin fans hatched a plan. The team had just lost their last game before the winter break but the fans didn’t want to say goodbye to each other without some Christmas joy. So they broke into Union Berlin’s stadium, drank mulled wine and sang Christmas carols. . Every year, the club arrange a Christmas Carol concert that regularly sells out their 28,000 capacity stadium.



The festive period means a time when your diet takes a back seat and you over indulge (many many mince pies). Why don’t you join the millions of people who’ve already signed up to Veganuary, a campaign that encourages the public to adopt a vegan diet in January next year?



He’s has won English football's League Cup with Stoke City and was capped four times by his country ... That all happened in the 1970s. But Mike Pejic's sporting success continues. Earlier this month, he automatically qualified for next year's Taekwondo World Championships in Taipei, at the age of 67. He might have hung up his football boots but he continues to fight and train the next generation of Taekwondo stars.
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