Yorkshire has taken over from London and Cambridge as the capital of cycling in Great Britain and for the first time in 37 years the UCI World Road Race Championships are taking place in the county all week. The first ever mixed relay Team Time Trial took place on a drizzly Sunday but British cyclists won a brilliant bronze behind the Netherlands and Germany – we hear from British cyclist John Archibald. Dame Sarah Storey had previously set the tone winning the Para-cycling International in brilliant sunshine on Saturday. Michael’s been on the course in Harrogate and also looks ahead to the big week of racing still to come!
Great British Men’s boxing team came away from Russia pleased but frustrated after a silver ad two bronzes at the World Boxing Championships – Frazer Clarke particularly hard done by, by a judge who overturned his semi-final result to a Russian boxer and without having to give away reason. We also hear from British boxer Rosie Eccles about the risks of the sport but why she’s not concerned about the recent concussion controversy.
Captain Kilty has a certain ring to it – the Teeside Tornado is the British captain for the World Athletics Championships in Doha – as Britain name a 43 strong team for the World Para Athletics Championships in Dubai in November – we hear from 100m Paralympic champion Sophie Hahn …
There’s also updates on Rugby, Diving, Swimming, Shooting and even the Beach Games – and we now know when the first British competitor for next year’s Olympic Games will be announced!
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Event at the moment the UK last hosted it in 1982 but following a successful bid backed by the government UK sport British cycling and welcome to Yorkshire it returns here as the latest chapter in the Yorkshire cycling success story we’ll have all you need to know about 9
Days of elite cycling in Yorkshire and news on a British medal in the mixed team time trial as well I’m Michael and I’m John with the Doha World Athletics Championships coming up British Athletics also named their team for the world par Athletics Championships in Dubai and we now know when the first
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It London steps up for swimming success uccess you’ll know what I’m talking about if not dig it out through all those channels that John just mentioned plus gold medal winning par Olympian Sophie Han also on your Olympic and Par Olympic podcast giving us her reaction to being selected for the IPC World
Championships but let’s start here in Yorkshire then and day one of this UCI Road World Championship saw a brand new event it was the Yorkshire parac cycling International now this is the first time this event’s been held in tandem with the UCI World Championships and it was
All part of British cyclings aim to make Yorkshire 2019 the most inclusive event yet 89 entrance 26 different races and success for Great Britain and success for Yorkshire as well Beverly’s Adam douglby was the first Rider to cross the line he was piloting hebon Bridges Steven bait to victory in the b class
There was a win there’s always a win for Dame Sarah story in the C5 class she was one of five world champions in action and today another brand new event as well the mixed team time trial the first time this has ever been held the British team was Lauren Dolan Anna Henderson
Juslyn Lowden John archal Dan bam and Harry tanfield is actually from yorkshi from up the road in great Aon and Great Britain won a surprise medal in this a bronze medal behind Germany and Netherlands and after the race I caught up with Scotland’s John archero what
Does it mean to you to win a bronze medal at the world championship John yeah it’s special I mean you could have expected that um we were Keen for a medal but you never know how realistic it is when there’s so many aspects revolving around it I mean with six
Riders and all the people to finish and just the rain all the nature of everything made it really unpredictable do you think this mixed team event is well served on this stage at the World Championships uh I feel it is um certainly the the way it went today with
The crowd support the the well just everything surrounding the event the way it felt as a rider to ride it I was certainly felt very proud to represent GB in that format and I feel it’s a yeah deserved World Championship yeah and what do you think about the staging here
In Yorkshire uh it’s gone incredibly um you always expect big things of World Championships and things like that but certainly from since I’ve arrived to how it’s gone here it’s um well drilled organized and you do feel like part of a professional event and um that is to be
Expected and it is what it is yeah it’s been great and you’ve got a busy week now cuz obviously you’re having to step up and do another event after gar withdrawing yeah so it was um a bit of a surprise that uh so I’ll jump at it and
I’ll take the opportunity uh do as much reconnaissance as I can over the next two days and then uh try and wing it from there so no opportunity really to enjoy this bronze medal tonight no especially not no uh so yeah Focus again on Wednesday John archel talking to
Michael they are a brilliant bronze it seemed like Britain were waiting a long time for that because they did compete quite early and and set the pace early but a brilliant performance in the end and they just came behind uh Germany and Holland who were the uh the Champions on
There and I thought it was interesting Michael to see the first weekend of this event the world Road Race championships as you say the first time to be held here in Britain in 37 years that Dame Sarah’s story as you mentioned earlier with another victory in the Paras cycling International she described it
As the best Paras cycling event in the UK since London 2012 now that was 7 years ago now and it seems like Yorkshire has taken the mantle from London as the capital of cycling in the UK which took it from Cambridge and maybe Yorkshire needs to do more for
Paras cycling as well as British cycling which it has been doing for the last few years yeah I think so I think obviously you’ve got to make the difference between what British cycling are doing at the Vel Drome in Manchester which obviously you know is a very track
Focused program and we’ve seen obviously the success over various and successive Olympic Games both Olympic and Par Olympic um success there and that is all based around the Vel Drome in Manchester that was built for the Commonwealth Games back in 2002 what Yorkshire has done of course and it’s all part of this
Legacy from the the grand depart in 2014 where they bought the start of the the tour to France here they’ve basically owned Road cycl in this country because you know the tour to Yorkshire whether it’s just because I I live around here I don’t know but it seems to me and and
I’ve said this on this podcast before seems to me now to be an established part of the the British sporting calendar you know the football season ends you have the Champions League final the FA Cup Final the Premier League is one and then you get into that little
Period of the summer don’t you where you’ve got things like Royal Ascot and you’ve got the Open golf and I think the tour to Yorkshire now is virtually at that top table it’s virtually there we had the tour of Britain cycling not that long ago a couple of weeks ago but
Hardly anybody was talking about it again I don’t know whether it’s just cuz I I’m in I’m in Yorkshire but you know I’m also in the northeast of England a lot and Newcastle had a stage and you know it was very well supported in Newcastle that the tour of Britain it
Just doesn’t though as an event have seem to have captured the public imagination in the way the Tor to Yorkshire has and I think then this is just the obvious kind of knock on from that the grand depart LED as a legacy to the tour to Yorkshire and the tour to
Yorkshire and the success staging of that has led obviously to these World Championships which you know and speaking and hearing from a lot of the riders today not just the British Riders as well but you know I was speaking so to some of the Italian teams as they
Were coming through and they were all saying this is this is the best event the best event they’ve ever taken part in and that’s already that’s at the first weekend under real heavy rain here and the event will get better with you know the elite time trials on Tuesday
Wednesday and the road races next weekend Saturday and Sunday I think it’s the first time I’ve ever watched the cycling in Yorkshire and Seen Rain because every time I normally tune in and yesterday when Sarah story won it it was in bright Sunshine so it was it was
Different to see rain and you mentioned nine days of of action to come and I want I want you to talk us through it in a in a moment but just to update people that g Thomas of course the 2018 tour to France winner has pulled out of the time
Trial on Wednesday for Great Britain saying he’s not in good enough shape to compete individually which is quite an honest thing to do isn’t it normally you would kind of think you keep that quiet and you kind of go right okay well we’ll just go with it but he’s decided for the
Best of Britain that he will step down as we heard John archeal in your interview say he’s now looking forward to that and we’ll step up with Alex daet for that time trial on Wednesday and then Thomas of course the Welshman will play a huge part in the road race team
Which includes National Champion Ben Swift who HS from rotheram Owen d uh Tay Gigan Hart Ian stanard and Adam Yates making up the team so a really strong men’s team for Great Britain on home soil and I haven’t even mentioned a certain Chris f yeah unfortunately obviously Chris F who
Who did ride in the Tor yorshire this year as we know and that was all part of his his preparations for this event the to Yorkshire had an enhanced lineup if you like in the men’s toor Yorkshire this year the women’s to Yorkshire is always um always attracts the very best
Women Riders it’s really really up there as far as Road cycling is concerned for the women but the men’s lineup you know it’s not quite there with the The Grand Tour the Jiro the VTA or the toour to France but this year yeah it did get an
Enhanced start line and that’s because a lot of people were coming to Wy head of these World Championships unfortunately for Chris FR though as we know falling the Wy in Yorkshire he had that really bad accident he’s had more illness since as well he’s had a real tough time of it
And you know he’ll be watching it on the television and listening to it on the podcast and is there always sunshine in Yorkshire no certainly not I mean it was interesting you were saying it’s the first time you’ve seen rain because you know I’ve covered every day of the um to
Yorkshire and the grand depart since uh since it first came here in 2014 2014 was good but there had has been there has been wet days it has been gray days I remember on the cow and C where we had the hill finish a couple of years ago
And it it tipped it down with rain and I remember as well this year earlier this year the first day as well I had to to hide out doing my work in a in a little tunnel because again it was it was pouring with rain but you know you it
Doesn’t detract if anything it enhances some of the entertainment I think um certainly as a supporter a spectator experience of course you’d love it to be in bright Sunshine but you know the race is come here they they know what to expect and you know they uh they enjoy
It and um you know and we’ve seen and I hate to say it but a lot of people tune in to watch road racing because not only do they want to see the tactics of the road race but you know there’s always the Peril and the danger of it as well
We saw that in Rio didn’t we with you know some amazing crashes in the road race at the cycling you know that that is one of the reasons why why people will watch it and you know we’ve seen we’ve seen crashes in Yorkshire over the years as well and I’m sure there’ll be
One or two others you know with Gray’s knees over the next few days we just hope there’s obviously nothing serious because you mentioned the program of events obviously today we’ve had the team time trial mix relay uh it’s been fantastic really successful I think all the Riders really enjoyed taking part in
It you’ve got the women’s Junior and the men’s Junior individual time trial um on the next day Monday that will be the 23rd of September the under 23 individual time trial on Tuesday and then the women’s Elite individual time trial ripping to harut on Tuesday afternoon then on Wednesday you’ve got
The men’s Elite in individual time tral as well North alleron to harut got a men’s Junior road race and a women’s Junior Road Race towards the end of the week the Men’s Under 23 race and then the the ones that bring the curtain down if you like on Yorkshire 2019 the
Women’s Elite Road Race Bradford to Harriet where otley and yorkshire’s Lizzy Armstead will be one of the favorites you know she’s done really well this year on the women’s tour head of the GC on that so she’ll be expected to do well on our home roads and then it
All finishes here in harut leads to harut on Sunday the 29th of September with the men’s Elite road race and of course we’ll keep you up today on anything but footy yeah we will this is your unashamed Olympic and Par Olympic podcast still to come we’ll be talking
More about concussion cuz I went down to the British boxers gym the GB boxers gym in Sheffield this week to speak to Rosie Eckles and we’ll hear more about her thoughts on concussion in sport and concussion in boxing very shortly also on the podcast we’ve got Sophie Han as
Well who’ll be speaking to John about her selection for the IPC world Athletics Championship I knowe as well the Rugby World Cup is underway terrific win for England in their first game but I just wanted to bring it up because the opening ceremony I watched some of that
Online of course Japan is hosting the Rugby World Cup the first time the event gone to Asia and Japan hosts the Olympics and the par Olympics next year and I thought the opening ceremony was was absolutely fantastic they unveiled all the nations around a recreation of Mount Fuji now if that’s what they’re
Doing for the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup that’s got me excited I have to say for Tokyo 2020 the Olympics and the Paro Olympics ceremonies I know not Everyone likes a ceremony personally I love them and you know I’m I’m excited about them now after last week’s hugely
Successful World par swimming championships at the London Aquatic Center of course I was there at the last edition of anything but footy it’s been confirmed the Olympic venue will stay each diving’s World Series again from March the 27th 29th next year 2020 it is Olympic year next year and Par Olympic
Year incredible stuff uh Tom Daly and Jack law and Grace Reed confirmed too after their success in last year’s Series so it’ll be a great chance for anyone to support them to say goodbye and good luck for Tokyo 2020 and the fina governing body has also announced
The date of the fina diving World Cup 2020 which doubles up as a test and qualifying event as well for the 2020 Olympic Games and that will run in April 2020 so lots of action for the divers early next year and four World Championship gold medalists are in the
British team for the final swimming event of 2019 the European short course swimming championships in Glasgow this December local lad Duncan Scott Luke greenbach James guy and James Wilby are amongst the 16 swimmers competing at yet another home championships so many sports taking place in the UK now with Michael at the
World Road Race championships of course in Yorkshire as we speak and the term short course for anyone who doesn’t know is is used to identify a pool that is just 25 M in length because the Olympics and the world Athletics and the world swimming championships I should say are
Conducted over the long long course so this is the short course pool so basically there’s more indoor like like in indoor Athletics there’s more bends there’s more turns in a 25 met pool so a lot more hard work for the swimmers and qualifying for the boxing tournament at
The Olympics in Tokyo will begin in London as well so another little feather in the cap for the capital city the world boxing championships which are not part of the qualification process for Tokyo 2020 for the men have been taking place in Russia over the last week or so
Great Britain sent a team of 13 it was a mixed week for the GB men’s Squad three medals should have been more they were pleased with six boxes in the quarterfinals Rob McCracken the performance director I said overall we’re very happy with the progress the squad is going in the right direction
Pat McCormack won a Silva he was top of the bill if you like only the fifth British man to box in a world championship final so a bit of individual history there that’s incredible yeah that’s an incredible stat well I think the the interesting thing about you know the GB boxing
Program and when I was down there in Sheffield this week someone pointed this out to me is unlike a lot of the other Olympic sports you you you lose a lot of your cohort all the time because obviously there’s the bigger prize of of turning professional so you know whilst
Olympic medals are important for boxers actually the cash the riches the belts are to be made and to be won when you leave the program so yeah Pat momak only the fifth British man to box in a world championship final accidental Clash ahead in one of the rounds really C his
Bid for gold but well done to Pat well done as well to Ben Whitaker and Peter mcgrail some names will be following on the road to Tokyo both winning bronze medals the big story of the week though concerned Fraser Clark who we thought was going to win a medal uh the Russians
Appealed well he should he should have won a medal let’s be hon well according to the judges who who judged and and scored the rounds yeah he would have gone into the semi-finals and won a guaranteed medal he was in the Super heavyweight quarterfinal against Maxim beonin the Russians appealed the result
And it was over turn the statement read the decision of the bout review jury is to overturn the original decision based on review of the third round and applying the IAB scoring criteria now the key words in that are the iaba which as we’ve discussed before is a body
Pretty much in disgrace they’ve already been stripped um of the the right to if you like host that Olympic boxing tournament um Great British boxing British boxing requested more info they were refused they were given no opportunity um to counter appeal the iaba is an organization in crisis as I
Said they’re not going to be staging the Olympic boxing they have a lack of clarity they have a lack of openness they have a lack of transparency they’ve got huge governance issues as well and these are not just me making these points this is what GB boxing is saying
As well and that is why and there’s so many conspiracy theories and you know for various legal reasons let’s not go into them all uh but you know that is one of the reasons why the part of the background if you like to the reasons why Fraser Clark was stripped of that
Medal well we’ve said so many times Michael how tough this sport is and and how much they’re relying on proper judging and and frankly this is the difference between medals and success and and not and actually you know as you rightly have said earlier you know boxing is fighting to keep these people
In the sport because they could easily go and get paid in in the professional uh in the professional world so look as you rightly say the ioc have said enough is enough and the aiba will not run the boxing at the Olympics next year in Tokyo and they’ve set up the Olympic
Boxing t task force which is currently uh just finalizing the appointment of price Waterhouse Coopers to independently review the process for selecting and evaluating boxing referees and judges because as Michael says the governing body international boxing Association suspended till after Tokyo from the Olympics Duke concerns over Finance governance ethics and refereeing
And judging and how very apt because we’ve seen that at the world championships and that’s the reason why they are not hosting the Olympics next year here yeah well I mean I understand what Rob McCracken is saying saying overall we’re very happy with the progress and you know we go back to a
Point that we’ve made time and time again you know it’s nice to win medals at the World Championships who wouldn’t want to be a world champion boxer but this wasn’t part of the qualification process for the next Olympics so you know that is a good thing so the
Qualification of Fraser Clark has not been affected by this they’ll go into their qualification period now in the Autumn as I said starting in London and and you know we we’re a year out from the Olympic Games so you would hope that that the likes of Pat McCormack Ben
Whitaker Peter mcgrail and others six in the quarterfinal six boxers in the quarterfinal as I said that will with another year under their belt if you like might be able to progress to move up but that is obviously all with the caveat that the Olympic Games the ioc
Have got the right and proper body and the right and proper people running that boxing tournament something that they didn’t have in Rio where we saw story after story about poor judging decisions and judges being sent home and all the rest of it Tokyo boxing of course um we
Spoke at length last week about it and you know we talked about concussion this is because of some comments that Rob McCracken the performance director um had said on a podcast um he then subsequently explained those comments and you know I think basically apologized for being a little bit slack
In his language the word he used was concussion where maybe the word he wanted to use was was Dazed or something like that and as I said I went to Sheffield this week to meet some of the the boxers there that the women’s team is going to be named in the next few
Days so um hopefully next week we’ll be speaking on this podcast anything but footy your Olympic and Par Olympic podcast to some of those women who are also going to Russia for their world championship but I did grab a word with Rosie echles because I knew that she had
Uh been concussed in a fight um she’s hoping to be part of that women’s team and she gave me her reaction to last week’s debate on anything but footy about concussion protocols so I had a serious concussion a couple of years ago and and the treatment I received was
Amazing um after that and a lot of people get you get a lot of people have opinions about this sort of thing but they’re not in our Sport and at the end of the day when a sport where you get punched in the head and at the end of
The day there’s a chance you get concussed and there chance you be days and you put faith in your judgment and also your coach’s judgment and there’s been a lot going on this last week and actually speaking as a fighter and who’s in this environment I think people get
Confused with terms and actually we’re in a sport where the risk of head injury is very high but it’s managed and at the end we’re all adults and we’re responsible and we choose to do this Sport and because I honestly believe my life with this Sport and with the risk
Of concussion is so much more fulfilled than my life about it and I think that’s what people maybe other people don’t realize that actually what boxing gives people is a lot more than a risk that it poses and when you had your serious concussion what was the protocol did you
Have to just basically sit out it was Yeah so basically i’ I went to the European final and I think I had concussion but no one I I didn’t even know and no one would have known um a come back and after the Europeans I didn’t feel very great this was a few
Years ago and I didn’t really know what was wrong and then I went back to sping and I got I got hit and they picked up that I must have had a concussion and had a more serious one and then the treatment I had was amazing I heard it
With sport Wales sadly for 4 months I was on complete cognitive rest um which which was awful um but then I got brought back and they brought back slowly you know Colin Jones really looked after him made sure I wasn’t sparring properly until even after I’d
Had the all clear he kept me off The Spar and made sure I was fit physically before even consider put me in the ring and the care I had there that was before getting on GB was no end you know and they really looked after me and they
Still contined to and I think that’s what people don’t realize they see the horrible stuff in someone’s con cush but they don’t see the teams pull together behind the scenes and that’s massively what happened for my case uh two years ago so just final question on this in
NFL for example they’ve got observers that sit in the stands if they spot something they then radio down could that work in boxing I genuinely don’t think it could work because in NFL the aim isn’t to punch people in the head in in boxing the aim is to punch people in
The head I’m think of course you’re going to see to take a shot but you don’t be we we conditioned in a different way to NFL players we’re conditioned to the sport that we do and I think pulling people out because they’re taking a shot it’s going to it
Will ruin the sport and at the end of day as I said we’re adults we consent we know of the risks um yeah I think it wouldn’t work I think there protocols afterwards you have you had a medical before every fight if doctors pick up on
And if a Coach picks up yor C there’s no way they’re going to put you in the ring absolutely no way and Michael what I like about what Rosie said to you there was that you know you said that last week we need a standard approach across
All sport um you know something like w with drugs you know someone needs to step up and say right this is the concussion rules for all of the sports but what she’s saying is yes that’s absolutely what we should be doing but also nobody in boxing is going to be put
A risk she’s she you know has experience of this she said you know I I was not going to be put at risk by the doctors yeah and you only have to go and and speak and spend a little bit of time at that facility at the English Institute
Of sport in Sheffield to know that that welfare is is first and foremost you know a gold medal a world championship title whatever is is fantastic but we know how serious uh if someone was was properly concussed we know how serious a brain injury um could be if they were
Subsequently put back in the ring and there’s no way in the world that that GB program and we go back to words that we’ve just used about the aiba for example we you look at welfare and governance there’s nowhere in the world that anyone in that program would put a
Boxer in the ring if they felt that there was any potential lasting effects or lasting damage to their health still to come on anything but footy your Olympic and Par Olympic podcast we will be talking about the the first British athletes for Tokyo 2020 they are about
To be revealed that is still to come but in athletics Captain Richard kilty has a certain ring to it I thought Michael well done to Captain kilty like that well done to the tside tornado uh he has been voted by fellow British athletes to be the skipper for the world
Championships in Doha starts this coming Friday September the 27th if you haven’t heard our preview pod make sure you go back and listen to that anything but footy countdown to Doha is well worth a listen the Sprinter is in his fourth consecutive World Championships and in the 4×100 relay Squad looking to defend
Their world title of course he received the most votes from every member of the 73 strong British team and described it as an incredible huge honor which I think rightly is recognized that he is Captain kilty and we’re looking forward to seeing him he’s one of 1,928 entries comprising of a th000 men
And 889 women in Doha and as I say worth listening to our countdown to Doha 2019 special because we look ahead to that and staying with Athletics because an interesting team announcement this week double 2016 par Olympic champion Libby kle returning for the first time since success in Rio at a major championships
For Great Britain as one of 43 athletes confirmed in the team for the world power Athletics Championships which will take place in Dubai in November now the 29-year-old CLE gave birth to son Edward in April this year and will take on the t11 200 MERS with guide Thomas Summers
There are 11 world champions from London 2 17 returning to the team including 10 time world champion Hannah cockroft Holly Arnold Sophie Han Olivia Breen kadina Cox Sophie camish Sam Sammy Kinghorn who’s back to full fitness after months of injury Steph Reed two-time par Olympic gold medalists Allan Davis Johnny peacock and Richard
Whitehead now Sophie Han is a 22-year-old sprinter and this is real Legacy from 2012 which we’ talked about so much on anything but football she watched it as a 15-year-old and she then came into the world the par Olympic sport and para athletic sport uh she is
The t38 100 meter Grand Slam Champion she’s broken the world record in the 100 meters earlier this season she’s the reigning 100 and2 200 meter world champion and she’s told us that she’s going there for more success I’m very excited um it’s huge want to represent Great Britain and I’m very excited to
See what the team can do and just can’t wait to go see the really I think it’s always um a sort of good Landmark to see y all the trains get in the right direction obviously the season St long so you have to sort of Life Plan um so
I’ve got great support and great team behind me and you’re just going to keep training hard and get rid for the Chums going to be busy but I’ll be ready I’d love to retain my title in the one and two um obviously world record would be
Nice but I think it’s all about cross the line for us hopefully winning the gold and then for the really just give all I’ve got obviously three gold medals should be nice but you never know what’s going to happen on the but that’s I would like to do that Sophie har with a
List of achievements there that JN has mentioned and also stole a photo I took of her um and used it as her Twitter profile picture for a long time I took a picture of her in on the Gold Coast at the Commonwealth Games uh with her medal
And I posted it and uh she obviously nicked it off me and used it but you know if you’ve won that many par Olympic medals and you won medals at the Commonwealth Games I think I I’ll forgive you you are you are officially forgiven sop and that championships take place in
November and we’ll talk more about that on anything but football in the weeks to come just a quick one after the addition at the world swimming in London Michael a few people said why don’t you explain the categories uh in in the uh the par Olympic sports and look we absolutely
Can and we absolutely will but almost most of the athletes say to us don’t worry about it we just want to be judged on our success or not rather than the category but we will keep informing you as we go and I just want to say hello to
Scott Wilson who’s the chief sports writer at the northern Echo uh very famous newspaper in the northeast of England he’s a big fan of anything but footy he told me this week and has subscribed to the podcast so thank you very much for that Scott in shooting Great Britain have won shooting medals
At the European championships in Bologna uh bronze medal for Chen MacIntosh and Kemp par in the mixed prone event also Amber Hill and Ben lillan Ben lellan won a bronze medal in the Mii team event as well anything but footy has been told that October the 1st will be the date
The first British athletes for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 will be revealed Chef demission Mark England will be revealing who they’ll be in pool maybe a clue there uh stay with us anything but footy as we remain on track for Tokyo and talking of revealing teams the boa the British Olympic Association have named
21 athletes to represent team GB in the inaug all Beach Games I wonder whether Paul might be bidding to host the beach games in the future seven disciplines 97 countries will all be gathering in Doha uh the sports include Beach soccer bouldering kite surfing skateboarding where Sky Brown was one of those
Athletes named the 11year old skateboarder water skiing wakeboarding and aqua thalon Aqua thalon not quite sure what that is but it’s one of the seven disciplines part of the beach games have we had an invite for that I am not sure that we’ve had an
Invite to go to Doha but I’m very very very happy if they want me to go to uh smash out my swimming trunks I’m a knotted hanky and get myself on a plane oh good great well that is it string vest oh dear yes lovely image lovely
Image to leave you with that is it uh that is the way we’re going to leave anything but footy today uh with me and a string vest and a knotted handkerchief from Harriet at the road World cycling championships I just want to say uh before we go you can always contact us
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