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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20210803 05:23:00

Bouldering and then lead. speed climbing, just to get up the wall as fast as you can. bouldering, which is a short wall, so there s multiple boulders, and you have to complete the most you can. lead climbing, which is like 17 metre walls, and that s whoever gets the highest point on the climb. it s a lot to train your mind as well as your physical body. like, it s a big part of competition climbing. there s never an end to it, i guess with a lot of sports, but you can never really be the best because there s always going to be a harder climb that you can t do, which is really cool. like, you re always having to keep going, which is really special. and while the games in tokyo are reserved for athletes at the pinnacle of their sport, one couple from oxfordshire in england are aiming for a gold for effort, if not achievement. they re trying to complete every one of the 96 events in 17 days most of which they ve never tried before. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS BBC News 20240604 22:25:00

And you have to complete the most you can. lead climbing, which is like 17 metre walls, and that s whoever gets the highest point on the climb. it s a lot to train your mind as well as your physical body. like, its a big part of competition climbing. there s never an end to it, i guess like a lot of sports, but you can never really be the best because there s always going to be a harder climb that you can t do, which is really cool. like, you re always having to keep going, which is really special. great energy there. and before we go, good news out of france. keepers cheered as giant panda huan huan gave birth to not one, but two cubs in a zoo south of paris. panda reproduction is notoriously difficult since the bears are rarely in the mood . the babies, born early monday, are said to be lively, plump, and pink . you have been watching newsday. ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS Breakfast 20240604 05:44:00

To the wedding and we trained in the morning, so it was very relaxed. and they will be training together much more after shauna s one and only attempt at the olympics, as she retires from indoor competition climbing after tokyo tojoin her husband in outdoor rock climbing. my other half, he trains. my husband i should say probably, i m still not used to it! he s an outdoor climber, so he s very excited that he ll get me back and we ll get to go climbing together again because for the best part of a decade i ve focussed solely on competition and we get to go climbing together again, hopefully we still like climbing together. what a legacy shauna coxsey will leave, hoping to inspire1 million people on to indoor walls a week before the pandemic came. as they open up again, new centres are being built like this one in sheffield where beginners can get a taste of that tokyo wall. for me, bouldering is just so free. you don t need anything. you can hire shoes, you can hire chalk. it sjust an ....

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