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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Sportsday 20170731

It was literally a putrid soup of body parts and rain and mud and everything. It was just awful, i think. And your father also spoke about the horses he went into battle with. One of his horses was fatally wounded in shrapnel or something. And, this particular horse, i think he was probably quite fond of or something and he sat with it for a few minutes until it died. They werent allowed to put them out of their misery, they werent allowed to use any ammunition. Because the ammunition was all supposed to be kept for the enemy. So, your mother is believed to be the oldest surviving world war i widow. Shes coming up to 97. There was a 25 year age gap between my father and her. Obviously not well enough to be here today. So, it was quite nice to be here for her. Very poignant. Its amazing really. And ijust feel so grateful that my father survived. I wouldnt be here otherwise. It is wonderful really and i think hed be very proud. Good evening, youre watching bbc news, im
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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Sportsday 20170731

It was literally a putrid soup of body parts and rain and mud and everything. It was just awful, i think. And your father also spoke about the horses he went into battle with. One of his horses was fatally wounded in shrapnel or something. And, this particular horse, i think he was probably quite fond of or something and he sat with it for a few minutes until it died. They werent allowed to put them out of their misery, they werent allowed to use any ammunition. Because the ammunition was all supposed to be kept for the enemy. So, your mother is believed to be the oldest surviving world war i widow. Shes coming up to 97. There was a 25 year age gap between my father and her. Obviously not well enough to be here today. So, it was quite nice to be here for her. Very poignant. Its amazing really. And ijust feel so grateful that my father survived. I wouldnt be here otherwise. It is wonderful really and i think hed be very proud. Good evening, youre watching bbc news, im
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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Sport Today 20170801

And we are very excited. How have you come to this deal is the question many people will want to know . Two years ago the words olympic were not even in angelenos vocabulary at that point in time so i think weve come a long way from when we first indicated there was an outside shot that wed be given the opportunity to even compete. So here we are today saying we are down to the dotting of the is and crossing of the ts, and in a short period of time you will be hearing the olympian theme music rolling through the city of a lay. Obviously paris has been bidding for 2024, and you have bid for 2028, what convinced you do go for 2028 . Two years ago no one even thought we were in the game and now here we are at the table. We believe in going for 2028 we might get some additional perks that we could use to help benefit the city of los angeles, but i think the most important thing is that this is like a once in a lifetime thing. We have the opportunity to be a government in la that for all of ....

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