What can GOATs of the future learn from Andy Murray and Simone Biles?
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 2 August 2024
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Liz Bates speaks to sports journalist Sue Mott who helped Murray write his autobiography.
She's also joined by Kathy Williams, who became the first black female gymnast to represent Great Britain at an Olympics, in Los Angeles in 1984.
Kathy talks about why Simone Biles has become one of the greatest Olympians of all time.
Producers: Tom Pooley and Rosie Gillott
Editor: Paul Stanworth
Promotion producer: David Chipakupaku
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| 1:00.0 | It's so easy to find yourself getting emotional when you're watching the Olympics |
| 1:04.1 | and you catch those era-defining moments, |
| 1:07.2 | the victories that you just know you're never going to forget. |
| 1:10.7 | And I guess it's because you're never going to forget. |
| 1:14.7 | And I guess it's because you're in complete awe of what you've just seen, |
| 1:20.1 | which is someone who's pushed themselves further than they ever thought they could, |
| 1:24.2 | through failure, exhaustion, self-doubt, |
| 1:29.1 | to this moment that you see in front of you of unrivaled perfection, of breathtaking greatness, that we all just get to share a tiny bit of as spectators. |
| 1:36.0 | And when it comes to that small handful of people that we call the goats, the greatest |
| 1:41.3 | of all time, it's about so much more than that. |
| 1:46.0 | It's about their character, |
| 1:52.2 | the things in their life that they've overcome and what they represent. I'm Liz Bates, and today we'll be talking about Andy Murray as he retires from tennis at the Paris Olympics and the gymnast |
| 1:57.7 | Simone Biles, as she adds to her gold medal tally. |
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