🏃‍♂️ Sports, talent, and physical education (Part 3) + Transcript

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🗓️ 30 November 2025

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2026 New Year Sale: https://successwithielts.com/sale Why are there so few top athletes? What is the most popular sport in your country? Is it easy to identify children’s talents? Is talent important in sports? What qualities should an athlete have? Should students have physical education and do sports at school? Tune in and have a great day! - Book a class with Rory here: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://successwithielts.com/rory⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Our course on Phrasal Verbs: https://successwithielts.com/podcourses Transcript: https://linktr.ee/sfspremium Find an IELTS Speaking Partner: https://links.successwithielts.com/ieltspartner Our social media: https://linktr.ee/successwithielts © 2025 Podcourses Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, hello, dear listener and welcome Inter-Ild speaking part three.
0:09.0	We are talking about sports and athletes.
0:12.0	Yay!
0:13.0	Woo!
0:14.0	Rory knows a lot about sport, because Rory is a yoga trainer?
0:19.0	Not yet, but I hope come March 26 I will be.
0:22.6	Is yoga a sport?
0:24.6	Is it?
0:25.6	Yeah, yeah, I was about to ask you that. Is yoga a sport?
0:28.6	Because sports is like something that you compete in.
0:30.6	Whereas I don't really think that yoga is inherently competitive.
0:35.6	You don't have any yoga competitions?
0:38.7	There are yoga competitions,
0:40.2	but I don't think that's true to the spirit of what yoga actually is.
0:50.2	Why are there so few top athletes?
0:53.9	I mean, it's a hierarchy, so naturally there will be fewer people at the top.
0:59.0	That's just simple distribution.
1:02.0	If everybody were competing at an elite level, then there wouldn't be any top athletes.
1:10.0	What's the most popular sport in your country?
1:13.8	I think it's football, just based on the sheer volume of clubs that we have
1:18.4	and the volume of news that we hear about it.
1:21.3	We have two clubs in our town alone,
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