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57 transcripts Coursebook (audio + video) anyway, we could have – like you said – just your body, that would be running or swimming, using ‘machines’ like a bicycle, cycling, or rowing – Lizzie: Punting if you get Adam to come back from the States … Mark: … or hang-gliding, or snowboarding – Hannah: MARK! Please! Dan: … or climbing, because you use equipment as well, don’t you? Slack lines, juggling balls … Lizzie: But that doesn’t cover any miles, does it? Dan: You’ve got a point there. Mark: What about things like tennis or badminton? Hannah: Hm, tricky, but maybe something like 10 pence for every time they can keep the ball going across the net? Mark: And we exclude team sports like football? Or rugby – or cricket? Lizzie: Oh dear, we can’t do that. Hm, let me think … Cricket might be easy, each run scores a couple of pence, but I’m not sure about the other team sports, like basketball. We’ll have to think about this a bit more carefully, maybe we can integrate them somehow … Coursebook, Unit 07, exercises 19a and 19b ( À 17) Announcer: Listen to the FM4 feature on ‘Spartan Races’. Presenter: Now this is some sight to behold: on a breezy cold day in the English countryside, a man, half-naked, with an ancient Greek helmet on his head is vocally announcing the start of a Spartan Race. Man: Are you ready? Crowd: Yeah! Man: And on my mark in three, two, one … Let the battle commence! Presenter: A few dozen people, mostly just in shorts and shirts and of all sizes and ages, run off to tackle an arduous obstacle course that will take them through mud, water and under barbed wire. Spartan Races are still a bit of a novelty in Europe, they were co-founded in the U.S.A. by Joseph De Sena. Joseph De Sena: So basically we feel like the world has gotten too soft, especially in First World countries, and the idea was, can we rip people off the couch, could we turn the clock back, get them back to nature, beat them up a bit, almost like a rite of passage. Presenter: So, there’s some fancy dress at the start and some hooting, but this is no joke. De Sena: No, we’re taking it pretty seriously. We’re working on getting into the Olympics. We think it’s got the makings of an Olympic sport. This is less about coming with a bunch of friends and partying and more about digging deep, training, discipline, goal-setting and pushing through or crawling under a barbed wire and getting over the walls, climbing the rope and getting it done. Presenter: Yet with courses ranging from around 5 kilometres to full marathon length, you don’t have to be an elite athlete to take part in a Spartan Race. De Sena: We’ve got 7-year-old kids, we’ve got 70-year- old grandfathers, grandmothers, you name it, they’re coming out and they’re competing. Presenter: The event is timed and people return again and again to try and improve their personal best or maybe the track thirty times isn’t big enough for them, or a charity walk where people pay for miles covered, they want something bigger than that. And we’re supposed to come up with ideas. Hannah: Swimming in the swimming pool – wouldn’t that be big enough either? Dan: Hm, I’m afraid it wouldn’t be. Lizzie: Could we do something with animals? Mark: Like huskies pulling sledges? ( All laugh ) Lizzie: No, I wasn’t thinking of dogs, but maybe horses? Some of the kids ride regularly … Dan: I don’t know, that might be too difficult to organise, but they definitely want something that involves the whole town, that gives them … ‘high visibility’, I think, was the term Mr McGregor used. Hannah: Well, what if we do an event that involves all kinds of different things? We could, people could build teams of four and they each have to do something different so that the whole team, I don’t know, needs to include the four elements or something. Mark: Might be difficult with fire and air. Hannah: Would work with water – like punting ( giggles ). Lizzie: How’s Adam? ( giggles ) Hannah: … Or rowing or paddling, the team could choose. Dan: Could even be swimming, if they want to, or scuba diving or whatever – Mark: Scuba diving, in Cambridge? Dan: I was just using it as an example. Mark: And air? Hannah: Well, maybe people could throw something, a ball, or a javelin – Lizzie: Now that would have to take place on the sports field – Mark: Or archery. Isn’t there this girl in Year 9 who wins archery competitions? She could be part of a team. Hannah: That’s the idea. And you could be doing some of your wushu moves on Parker’s Piece or along Trinity Street. Lizzie: And something with wheels like cycling or rollerblading or riding a scooter … Mark: Is that a sport? Lizzie: If you do it properly, yes it is. You’d be amazed at how exhausting it can be. Dan: So, how would this work? People form teams and they do whatever they like and DirectSports pays 1 pound per mile covered? Mark: That’s going to be really chaotic. But I like the idea of including different types of sports, because that would include sports that are a bit more unusual … Dan: Like wushu? Mark: Like wushu. Or archery. I can’t find a way to include the huskies, though … Lizzie: So, we’d set up categories, like, erm, throwing something as far as possible, or using wheels, or just using your body, like jogging or walking, or would that be earth, if you want to stick with the element thing – and the teams have to have one person in each category? Hannah: Yeah, sort of, that’s the idea. We don’t have to stick with the element thing, I don’t think it would work Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv