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🗓️ 23 May 2025
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0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
0:07.0 | Today, the dirtiest race in Olympic history. |
0:16.0 | In the 90s, my friend and fellow journalist Don Phillips |
0:24.0 | was at the centre of the UK's dance music explosion. |
0:28.7 | By 2022, he had mysteriously disappeared |
0:32.2 | in one of the remotest parts of the Amazon jungle, |
0:35.6 | with his friend Bruno Pereira. |
0:37.9 | In 2025, so many questions remain. |
0:42.6 | I'm Tom Phillips, the Guardian's Latin America correspondent. |
0:46.5 | Listen to Missing in the Amazon from June 5th. The Women's 1500 metres final. |
1:05.6 | That being drawn to the attention of the crowd now in this stadium. |
1:09.3 | It was the penultimate night of the 2012 London Olympics, and Britain's Lisa Debrisky was waiting |
1:14.7 | in the athlete's tunnel for the most important race of her life. |
1:18.6 | I found it very scary, if I'm completely honest. It's a very hostile environment. |
1:24.1 | You're in a space with all these people that are about to step on that start line and give everything they've got to achieve their dream and their goal. |
1:33.3 | Coupled with that, you're in front of a home crowd and that home crowd in London was just something else. |
1:41.3 | It just felt very overwhelming. |
1:46.1 | For this, Lisa Debrisky of Great Britain, |
1:48.8 | so near to World Championship gold last time in 2009. |
1:53.3 | I felt very ready on the start line. |
1:55.4 | I was like, okay, this is it. |
1:57.3 | This is what we've worked for. |
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