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Marathon Talk

Episode 135 - Team GB women post Olympics

Marathon Talk

World Marathon Majors

Fitness, Health & Fitness, Sports, Running

4.7994 Ratings

🗓️ 8 August 2012

⏱️ 104 minutes

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Summary

We look back at some amazing Brit grit on the track including Mo Farah's superb 10,000m and the women's Olympic Marathon. The Marathon Talk Massive go mad on Friday Street. We also look forward to this weeekends men's Olympic Marathon - can Kenya win? There is rate your run, Tony's Trials, a rave about a plastic Brit and the Marathon Talk Launchpad. Oh and guess what? We catch up with Freya Murray, Claire Hallissey and Mara Yamauchi and discuss that Olympic Marathon.

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, 8th of August 2012. I'm Martin to do. On this week's show what a week we look back at some amazing Brit grit on the

0:49.5

track including Mo Farrow's superb 10,000 meters and the Women's Olympic Marathon.

0:56.0

The marathon tour massive, go mad on Friday Street.

0:59.3

We look forward to this weekend's Men's Olympic Marathon, Can Kenya Kenya win there's rate your run Tony's

1:05.0

trials a rave about a plastic Brit and the marathon talk launch pad Tom Williams

1:10.9

what a week. What a week!

1:14.0

I have been loving the Olympics.

1:16.0

It got off to a little bit of a slow start, didn't it?

1:19.0

And we kind of thought, oh, I've said it already, so early on.

1:22.0

And we thought, Tom Daly's not really done it and

1:24.4

Cav's not really done it and what's going to happen and suddenly boom we're on about

1:28.5

17 gold medals don't we? We are I can't believe it I was a bit like you, last week I was trying to suppress a little

1:36.4

err of disappointment about how the Olympics are kicked off, not to do with everything about the opening

1:41.0

ceremony and all that kind of stuff but just in terms

1:44.4

of some of the more favorite medal prospects and some of the results but this week it's gone bonkers.

1:51.8

It's been absolutely brilliant and some of the track and field stuff has just

1:57.8

pushed that to another level, isn't it?

2:00.4

Oh well I thought you know Jess was amazing. Jess Ennis. She's under this huge

2:04.9

amount of pressure and we'll talk about Mo a bit later but I thought those two were under a

2:09.5

ridiculous amount of pressure and I didn't think either of them were nailed on at all.

2:12.3

I thought you know Jess was really going to maybe

2:15.0

struggle with this crazy pressure over years and years and years of building and

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