"It's really stunning, " says Nancy Hogshead-Makar, senior director of advocacy for the Women's Sports Foundation.

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To further clarify, Hogshead-Makar went on to explain that a precedent was set in the legal case Russo v.

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Hogshead-Makar, who won three gold medals as an Olympic swimmer, says playing sports teaches girls about winning and losing, belonging to a team, and postponing short-term gratification for long-term rewards.

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The judges, including the Scots Makar Liz Lochhead, and experts on Bannockburn and the Rotunda monument, spent several hours deliberating on the poems, and ultimately came to the same conclusion as the public in choosing Jamie's poem.

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