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David Weir CBE - LIVE National Running Show

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Global

Sports, Running, Health & Fitness

4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 January 2024

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

LIVE from The National Running Show 2024 - Jenni is joined by David Weir CBE.

David aka the 'Weirwolf', is a British Paralympic Wheelchair Athlete who has won an impressive total of six gold medals at the 2008 and 2012 Paralympic Games and has won the London Marathon on eight occasions!

His secret to winning? Determination and...Beetroot juice?

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0:00.0

This is a Global Player Original podcast.

0:05.0

Ladies and gentlemen, joining Jenny Falconer, we have David Weir. Please come and join us.

0:16.0

Hello, how are you all? Good. Right, this doesn't happen very often, okay? Live episode of Rompod. So I'm,

0:22.9

I'm going to get official, and I'm going to do an introduction, and then we'll take it from there,

0:27.0

and see what happens, see what David says, see what we end up chatting about. But here we go.

0:32.8

Hello there. Welcome to this very special recording of Rompod. I'm Jenny Falkner and honestly I am truly thrilled

0:39.9

to be recording this episode live from the National Running Show. We're here at the NEC. Thank you Raccoon Media.

0:48.5

Thank you Mike Seaman and Kate Jameson for making this all possible. And most importantly,

0:52.6

actually, thank you for turning up and giving me an

0:55.4

audience. I love it. I love it. First audience for Rumpod. And there is one extra element,

1:00.3

obviously, that will make this episode truly unique. And that is my amazing guest. He is an absolute

1:08.8

legend in sport. He's won the London Marathon eight times.

1:14.2

The Great North Run, eight times.

1:17.7

He has a mega impressive medal hall, which includes 10 Paralympic medals.

1:23.4

And by the way, six of them are gold.

1:25.5

He is inspiring.

1:26.5

He's one of the best wheelchair athletes in the world.

1:29.0

And luckily for us, he is my guest on Rompod today.

1:32.4

He is the Werewolf, David Weir.

1:36.0

Thank you.

1:37.5

Oh, my goodness.

1:39.1

When I was writing that intro, it was about three paragraphs long originally,

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