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🗓️ 28 July 2010
⏱️ 93 minutes
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With just two years until the opening of the London Olympics we spoke to Britain's last marathon medalist Charlie Spedding and talked to the head of the BBC's Olympic website Mark Coyle. Tony's Trials returned and we launched the Marathon Talk Smackdown.
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0:00.0 | I'm Martin yelling, he's Tom Williams talk and this week it's our Olympic special. |
0:26.7 | As of yesterday, it was exactly two years until the start of the Olympic Games in London, |
0:31.0 | so on this week's show, we're talking directly to the man at the top in the BBC Mark Coyle, |
0:37.0 | the editor of BBC London 2012 online, to find out just how the Olympics in London is going to be the best yet for the BBC and for the |
0:44.6 | viewer. We've got a special guest doing this week's training talk, former |
0:49.0 | London Marathon winner and the last British Marathon Medalist at the Olympic Games in 1984 in Los Angeles, Charlie Spedding. |
0:57.0 | We catch up with two of our Robin Hood 5. |
1:00.0 | We bring you some news from the world of running. We rant, we rave, we winner of the week. |
1:06.0 | We answer a question. Wow, what a show we've got for you this week. Tom, what have you been up to? |
1:13.0 | Well, I've been training and racing and racing and |
1:16.0 | racing and training and racing and that's about it really. |
1:18.0 | I probably had the best training week of my life last year. |
1:22.0 | It was my peak week for my fine |
1:24.9 | lion man so I guess it should be the best week you've ever had it you know at the end of |
1:28.4 | kind of five years of hard work towards it it wasn't the biggest I just totaled |
1:32.4 | up yesterday it was actually only 24 hours or |
1:35.6 | something of training which only well yeah but that relatively that's not that |
1:39.6 | big is it I've done a couple of 40s in my time. I'm sure you you bagged a few big mileage weeks |
1:45.7 | and you're back in your Iron Man days Mark but yes it wasn't that crazy big at |
1:50.3 | 23 hours but there was some great quality and there's some great intensity |
1:53.7 | and I've blogged about it in detail like my new blog site which is Tom Williams |
1:58.0 | dot square space dot com dub dub dub drub dot tom Williams dot square space |
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