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Presenter: Now the 2020 Olympics might seem a long way away to you,
but people are already talking about what new sports might be included.
Today I'm going to talk to two people who are hoping their sport might be
included. The first is Jonny Mills whose sport is wakeboarding. Jonny, can
you tell us what wakeboarding is? Is it like surfboarding?
Jonny: Well, a bit. It started in California because people wanted to surf
but didn't have waves ... It's also a bit like waterskiing in that the rider is
towed behind a specially-built speed boat.
Presenter: How fast does the boat go?
Jonny: Usually at about 25 mph, or a bit less. The rider uses the wake the
board produces in the water to launch into the air.
Presenter: And then you do a lot of complicated things in the air?
Jonny: That's right, spins of up to 1260 degrees, things like that.
Presenter: 1260 degrees, that's impossible isn't it?
Jonny: Oh no, but it's pretty crazy. You spin round three and a half times in
the air.
Presenter: And then you have to land again without falling over.
Jonny: You'll have to come and watch some wakeboarding if you haven't
seen any. Come to Wakestock in July if you can.
Presenter: That's in Wales, isn't it?
Jonny: Yep, Abersoch in North Wales. It's a really popular wakeboarding
and music festival. It's right by the beach. It's not quite the same as
California, but it's cool. It attracts a lot of great riders.
Presenter: Who does wakeboarding?
Jonny: They reckon about 3 million people all over the world. More guys
do it, but there are increasing numbers of girls too. The people who
compete are usually in their teens or twenties, but anyone can do it.
There's a lot of crossover with other board sports like surfing and
skateboarding. The tricks people pull are similar and the names for things
are often the same.
Presenter: And looking at you, I'd say the fashion was similar too.
Jonny: Yeah, the clothes and the lifestyle are similar.
Presenter: Right, now I'd like to ask Jules Russell about her sport. She's a
skater in a roller derby team. Tell us about that, Jules. Is it a popular sport?
Jules: Yes, it's becoming really popular in the UK. There are about 60
leagues in England and 1,200 throughout the world. In the US and Canada,
of course, and places like Scandinavia and Australia, but lots of other
countries too.
Presenter: The sport began in the States, didn't it?
Jules: Yes, in the 1930s, but it was more for entertainment than sport and
it died out by the 1970s. Then there was a revival in Texas in 2001 and
from then on it's just been growing and growing.
Presenter: So how do you play it?
Jules: Well, you have two teams of five people on roller skates, of course,
and they go round an oval track in the same direction. Each team has a
'jammer' who scores points by passing members of the opposing team.
They do whatever they can to stop her, within reason. The team with the
most points at the end of the match wins.
Presenter: It sounds a bit rough!
Jules: Well, it's a contact sport, so there's bound to be a lot of pushing and
falling over. It's all good fun, though; people don't often get hurt. If you try
and trip someone up you get penalised. You do try and frighten the other
team a bit though.
Presenter: That's right. You have frightening clothes and special names.
Jules: People used to have incredible costumes a couple of years ago.
Now the sport is changing and becoming more professional. Lots of the
teams train three or four times a week, and spend a lot of time in the gym
you have to be really dedicated and fit. We still have nicknames, though.
I'm 'The Julifier'.
Presenter: And is the sport all female?
Jules: There are a few men who do it, but it's mostly female and amateur
at the moment. Things are changing fast though, so who knows what the
future will bring. It would be fantastic to be an Olympic sport.
Presenter: What do you think about roller derby, Jonny?
Jonny: It's wild! Those ladies scare me to death! Good luck to them with
the Olympics thing though. And good luck to us too.
Presenter: Good luck to you both.
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introduction of the vapor fly to the running community really has changed
um what we think of as possible for running particularly in the marathon
these shoes certainly are game changing and transformative
this is a very sizable seismic shift
these are nike's vapor flies
critics say the sneakers provide an unfair advantage to those who race in
them and that their revolutionary design threatens the very integrity of
the sport itself so does the technology inside them give an unfair
advantage and should they be banned from competition with the tokyo
olympics around the corner this summer these are the questions facing
the world of competitive on running 12 2019 elite marathoner elliot
khachogi ran 26.2 miles in less than two hours breaking one of sport's
greatest barriers Bridgette the next day fellow kenyan bridget coskey
shattered the woman's marathon record in Chicago what both runners
had in common was what was on their feet both athletes were wearing
versions of nike's vaporfly racing shoes which according to the company
allow runners to improve their times by up to 4.2 percent and if recent
records are any indication those claims may actually be true since the
vapor flies were released male runners in the nike shoes have run five of
the top 10 fastest marathon times ever recorded and it's not just the
elites that have embraced the vapor fly if you visit the starting lines of any
road race in the united states today from a major marathon to a local 5k
chances are you'll come across the distinctive neon sneakers but nike's
success hasn't come without controversy ever since the shoes were
introduced in 2017 they've ignited a fierce debate about whether the
vapor flies should be banned from competition until now track's
international governing body world athletics has provided only a loose
guideline on sneaker tech shoes must not be constructed so as to give
athletes any unfair assistance or advantage in a statement to the wall
street journal nike said we respect world athletics in the spirit of their
rules and we do not create any running shoes that return more energy
than the runner expense but with the tokyo olympics around the corner
this july world athletics launched an investigation into the vapor flies the
results of which are expected before the end of the month a person in the
street could say well why would you not use them because they give you
an advantage the same people might say well why don't you allow doping
because that can be accessible to everybody and if it doesn't harm them
then why can't they just do doping and some people have suggested that
the shoe issue right now is a form of mechanical doping peter thompson
has spent his career coaching professional distance runners all over the
world you've got alberto Salazar rudy chapa like many in the running
community he thinks the vapor flies should be banned from competition
to protect the integrity of the sport the definition of cheating is doing
something to deliberately gain an unfair advantage why are we doing our
sport are we doing it purely for performance or is it for the competition of
person against person if it's about competition person against person then
the need for 11 level playing field is is exemplified.