Tapescript Exeract One 1 {pt cont boeve it! You rely ore determined to go hong cing oon tis weckerd ret ou? tink you'te a of your mee De ys know how many Ftd acids voi hang gers there hve ben Bs pot yer? mast be ot ost feo i. Come on, Sue. WS not tat Bad, ey fe hat ot a 1s bat? Ths rat what the magsene twas reading yesterday sit ok, prone yu tke Sep by St .. at you hove someone who's quolifed to toke you through olf the things you need todo you know, how tft tre bares Correct, ow to psiion your bod, to werk the ‘contrat! honesty con't tee whct of the fas cba. 's ‘ke dong 0 cor. Nob drves 0a tt He th, do they? They have to spend « lot of time and money learning fn t0 crv Before tyre alowed on te oad. There's ro diference my nd.[as Weil there is in my mind — and | think you're absolutely ‘mod to want 10 do it! Extract Two Joponese sword fighting ~ oF kendo, os it's known — wos: something | did when | was stil ot school 1 didn't do it for very long because, wel, the teacher we had — oF ‘master’ as he fed us to call Him — insisted on our kneeling in front of him before cach iesson and, wel, he wos s0 ful of himself that you hod a rel problem if he felt you were taking the mickey oF samething. He used to get so worked up .. t was quite unbelievable relly, Another thing was, ol the Jopanese words you had to scream och time you made o thrust with the sword cone word for a thrust to the body. another for a thrust to the head, a thet shouting ot the top of your woice, pls the parephemaio you hod to dress up in... You komm, i of seemed so out of place omong a group of scruffy schoolboys cll thot rushing around in @ suburb of London screaming words in Japonese. 1 found it utterly impossible to keep o stright foce, which, of course. annoyed the teacher no end. Extract Three ‘As The othietes have just this moment got off the plane and ‘re moking their woy through the crowd which has _pothered here to greet them ... making their way thraugh what must be hundreds of enthusiastic onlookers, who have braved the elements todoy 0 weicame back the men cond wornen who so brilianty represented this country at the recent Olympic Games. There they are. There're moving towords the line of taxis now which ... ane moment here's Steve Oks. Let me see if... Mr Oaks? Mr Ooks? Just a few words ... hove you o moment? Bt Yes? [At How do you fee! on your return afer what can only be desenbed as ¢ tremendous persona! victory in the Olyinbic stadium fost week? 1: Absolutely great! | stil can't take aif in! Given of the problems 7d been having with my ankle — thot wos the major stumbing block — ond then ait those totaly unfounded aegations about drug obuse, you know, | find it ‘amazing thot } monaged to walk away with a medo! ct of Jet alone 3 gotd medol. t's... wel 1s You're glad to be back, | imagine? 1a: Oh, yeah, and tm just thanking my sucky stars! had stich wonderful support... in the stodkam self and among people here back ot homeExtract Four On july 14th 1865 0 young Engish iustrator and mountaineer, Edword Whymper, climbed the Matterhorn, or Monte Cervina, ct the seventh attempt. On the way down from the 4,440 pyramid of rock, which towers over Zermatt, four of Whymper’s party fet to their deaths. This wos by no means the fist mayor alpine ascent, but Whymper’s tragic feat was noteworthy becouse # publicised the new sport of alpisn, and underined change atitaces to recreation, No more was sport 10 be the preserve of leisure efte. Nor was it to be confined tothe tution! pursuits of hunting, shooting fishing, nding, “oka the waters’, ‘ond the Grond Tour Europea of al sorts were fooking for ‘new sports, new cheilenges. amd row sources of plays fires. 11s no coincidence, for example, that two years eater the Footbal Assocation hod been founded ot @ meeting in the Freemoson’s Tavern in Landon, the om of which was to standardize the rues of footbal. and t0 provide the framework for organised competion in the future.