‘There are so many crazy stories’: the hunt for every sports statue in world Chris Stride leads project that gives insights into UK society – such as statues of Lester Piggott outnumbering those of women.
“There are more statues of Lester Piggott in the UK than there are of sporting women,” said the statistician Chris Stride with dismay.
In the coming weeks he will add about 20 UK statues and 120 US baseball statues.
For 14 years, Stride has been leading a team that records and researches statues of sportsmen and women around the world.
They include the pentathlete Mary Peters on the outskirts of Belfast; the 1930s Wimbledon champion Dorothy Round in Dudley; and the trailblazing footballer Lily Parr at the National Football Museum in Manchester.
