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00:00 Hello and welcome along to Invicta Sport, the only show on your TV dedicated to wrapping
00:19 up all of Kent's sporting action.
00:21 I'm Bartholomew Hall and here's what to expect on this Monday the 7th of August.
00:25 We'll be taking a look at this, the opening weekend of the season in the football world
00:33 and speaking to John from the Kent Non-League Podcast about his thoughts on the first games.
00:38 Plus I'll be joined by Liu Batchelor about her endless amount of sporting challenges,
00:43 including her attempt to beat a race car driver in her morning commute using just a bike.
00:49 First a look at the headlines and we start with the Kent Spitfires who suffered a disastrous
00:53 defeat at Beckenham against Leicestershire on Sunday.
00:56 The Foxes set a tough target for their hosts after being forced to bat first.
01:00 380 for 5 was the score at the end of the first innings, largely helped by Wian Mulder's
01:04 quick half century.
01:06 The Spitfires just couldn't fight back quick enough however after the innings changed with
01:10 the top order collapsing early on and they were all out for a disappointing 116 in less
01:15 than 24 overs.
01:17 Lancashire won by a whopping 264 runs.
01:20 The Spitfires are now one win from two in the series.
01:23 Their next Group A match is against Lancashire at Blackpool on Wednesday.
01:26 Here's Lancashire's lone player Matt Parkinson reflecting on his first home game with Kent.
01:31 I think the pitch was good throughout the whole day.
01:34 We were thinking around 350 I think would have been a decent effort.
01:38 Obviously there were things with the ball we could have improved.
01:41 I don't think we started that well and we didn't finish that well.
01:44 The middle, myself and Hammy, sort of dragged it back a little bit a few wickets.
01:50 I think with the bat it's just one of those classic things, you're chasing a big score
01:54 and you lose three or four early and you're done really there.
01:58 So obviously it'd be disappointing not to put up more of a fight, try and get 250, 260
02:04 but I wouldn't read too much into being bowled out of 160.
02:09 Next and Chatham and Ellsford MP Tracey Crouch has reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro
02:13 as part of a fundraiser for breast cancer.
02:16 The Conservative MP and former sports minister completed the challenge on Friday with a group
02:21 of six other women.
02:23 So far the total amount raised is more than £141,000, just shy of the £150,000 goal
02:28 which the fundraising page says will go towards life-saving equipment and services for patients
02:33 with breast cancer in the county.
02:35 It comes more than two years after Tracey Crouch completed her own treatment for the
02:39 disease in February 2021.
02:42 Next in Maidstone's Alessia Russo helped England scrape through to the Women's World Cup quarter-finals
02:47 with a nail-biting penalty shoot-out victory over Nigeria on Monday.
02:52 The former St Simon's Stock schoolgirl played 88 minutes for the Lionesses who had been
02:56 reduced to 10 players as Lauren James was sent off for a stamp on Michelle Elosi's back
03:02 following a VAR decision.
03:03 Russo was replaced by Chloe Kelly who smashed in the winning kick against Nigeria.
03:08 England won the shoot-out 4-2 after a goalless play on field.
03:12 Gravesend-born midfielder Laura Coombs was an unused substitute for Serena Vigeman's
03:16 team in front of a 49,000-strong crowd in Brisbane.
03:21 On from that brilliant win, another girls or ladies football team is about to win another
03:26 £500 towards their running costs, just like the Herne Bay Youth Rangers did last week.
03:32 It's all part of a competition from Active Life, the leisure charity which runs sports
03:36 centres across the county, which is inviting teams to nominate themselves for a chance
03:40 to win the cash every time the Lionesses win a match in the World Cup.
03:44 Andy Glover from Active Life spoke to me earlier about the importance of supporting grassroots
03:48 clubs as we heard on Kent Tonight.
03:51 ...season kicking off at the weekend.
03:55 Here's a round-up of all the fixtures that you might have missed.
03:58 This football season we open things up at Crabble where Dover Athletic welcomed Torquay
04:02 United in their first National League South game of the new term.
04:06 Promotion favourites Torquay were quick off the mark going two up in the first 20 minutes,
04:10 White's fans were kicking themselves to see new signing Chevron McLean scoring an own
04:13 goal and goals skipper Aza Hall quickly following to double the visitors lead.
04:19 Despite the setback, the relegation surviving Dover quickly got one back in the 42nd minute.
04:24 Across from Josh Anefuose eventually found a well-positioned George Nakaj inside the
04:28 box but the goal went down as belonging to Zidane Sutherland who guided the ball past
04:32 Torquay's Mark Halstead between the sticks.
04:35 Going into the second half and the hosts grabbed their equaliser midway through the second
04:39 period, right winger Roman Charles Cook did well to keep his man at bay and charged one
04:43 past Halstead to make it 2-2.
04:46 Seconds to go and an enthralling match would end with some late drama of course.
04:50 The Whites had to put everything on the line before a dangerous delivery across the goal
04:53 from Nick Dembele forced Billy Terrell into a brilliant block to deny Torquay's Brad Ash
04:58 a stoppage time winner.
05:00 Athletic boss Mitch Brundle said he was delighted to see his side fight back so well.
05:04 "Delighted, it feels like a win, you know, when you go 2-0 down, sloppy goals we gave
05:08 away but fair play to the character of the players.
05:11 They showed great desire, determination, all the things that I asked for."
05:15 Elsewhere in Gillingham got off to a flying start in League 2, a great opener for the
05:19 more than 700 travelling fans to Stockport on Saturday.
05:23 A late winner by Robbie McKenzie off a Che Alexander free kick in the 86th minute brought
05:27 the game home for the Gilles and ensured the season kicked off on a positive note.
05:32 Meanwhile Ebsfleet and Rochdale met at the Crown Oil Arena, a first meeting for the two
05:36 teams as both settled back into life in the National League from opposite ends of the
05:39 pyramid.
05:40 But despite being the underdogs, Ebsfleet powered through torrential conditions to take
05:44 home the win with a brilliant Luke O'Neill hook off a corner from Toby Edster.
05:49 Here's manager Dennis Kattrieb.
05:50 "Yeah, I can't ask for anything more.
05:52 Three points, first game in the season.
05:55 Perfect, clean sheet, scored one goal.
05:57 I already said to the guys from TNT if we can score the second goal after 65 minutes
06:03 this would be the perfect game plan."
06:05 Looking at the rest of our county's National League games then and another draw, this time
06:09 from Alan Dowson's side at Dartford, who extended their winless streak from the pre-season.
06:14 Dartford got things off to a good start against Bath City with Luke Colson taking a brace
06:18 early on, but by the end a 10-man visiting side denied the hosts and the scoreline stalled
06:23 at 3-all leaving mixed emotions at the whistle.
06:26 Action in the Ithsmean League doesn't kick off until next week, but that doesn't stop
06:29 the on-field action further down the pyramid with the FA Cup extra prelim round.
06:33 Survival for all but one of Kent's sides in the tournament with Tunbridge Wells losing
06:37 out to Uxbridge 2-3.
06:39 Wins from Ashford United and Sevenoaks Townsend then progress to the next stage, while Sitting
06:43 Bourne will replay the Jersey Bulls on Tuesday after their 0-0 draw.
06:46 Well, to look back on the weekend's action I spoke to Kent non-league podcast host John
06:51 Phipps about what he thought about the weekend earlier on.
06:54 So John, thank you for joining us today.
06:56 First of all, what did you make of the weekend?
06:57 Who was the biggest winner from you from our Kent clubs?
07:00 Well, obviously the standout result has got to be Ebbs Fleet United.
07:05 No one gave them much of a prayer to be honest when they went up to Rochdale who were just
07:07 relegated from League 2 last season.
07:11 Televised game as well for the Fleet and I think a lot of people were thinking, oh, Rochdale
07:15 will just roll them over quite easily.
07:16 But Ebbs Fleet have gone up there, they've scored a really good goal, they've kept a
07:19 clean sheet and they've got three points.
07:21 I think a lot of people who may have been underestimating Ebbs Fleet at the start of
07:24 the season in the National League are now going to be sitting up and paying a little
07:26 bit of attention to them.
07:27 And personally, I think Ebbs Fleet have got everything in them to have a good season this
07:32 season.
07:33 So I'm not overly surprised that they went up to Rochdale and won and now they've just
07:36 got to back it up and keep going.
07:38 It's such a different challenge for Ebbs Fleet this season, having obviously been the favourites
07:42 last year, the runaway champions last year and everyone wanting to beat them.
07:46 Now they're almost the underdogs and they've gone up there for the first time as doing
07:50 that and they've got a brilliant result.
07:51 So for me, absolutely result of the weekend was Ebbs Fleet United's win at Rochdale.
07:55 It was and Dennis Kutryb was very happy as well about that result.
07:59 I mean, compared to how Maidstone got on in the National League last year, I mean, are
08:03 you expecting, I mean, towards the end it was kind of a washout for them, but you know,
08:07 are you expecting them to, after that result, come in with a bit more firepower?
08:10 Absolutely.
08:11 I think I always felt that Ebbs Fleet would have a good season.
08:15 I think they could sneak into the top 10.
08:17 They might even be looking higher than that.
08:20 Compared to where Maidstone were this time last year to where Ebbs Fleet are now, I think
08:23 there's the streets apart, actually.
08:25 I think that Ebbs Fleet are very well placed.
08:28 I think they're going to be a really strong side.
08:30 They've got a lot of players and the thing with Ebbs Fleet United is they've got a way
08:33 of playing and they stick to it.
08:35 And I often look back, I saw Ebbs Fleet at Eastbourne last season in the National League
08:41 South and they were 2-1 down.
08:44 And despite the fact that they were 2-1 down, they kept playing the way that they play their
08:47 football.
08:48 They lost 10 men, they lost their goalkeeper as well to injury.
08:52 So they're now a field player in goal, but they still just kept attacking.
08:55 And they eventually equalised that night with a goal from a defender in open play in the
08:59 penalty area.
09:00 And I think they commit to the way they want to play football.
09:03 Denis Koutribas is a really good manager.
09:05 He knows the way he wants to play.
09:06 He knows his players.
09:07 And as I said earlier, I think they're going to take a lot of teams in the National League
09:10 by surprise this season.
09:12 Let's move down then to Dartford.
09:14 Alan Dalsun's side carrying on their winless streak from the pre-season.
09:18 How long before they start to bring things up again?
09:21 It's difficult really.
09:22 I was following the game quite closely on Saturday and I thought they were home and
09:26 hosed.
09:27 I thought they'd won the game and obviously it ended up being 3-3 and Barth were down
09:30 to 10 men as well.
09:31 So that is a disappointing result for Dartford.
09:34 And Alan Dalsun said a lot of times last season, "Once I've got my players, we're going to
09:39 be a completely different proposition."
09:42 And he's brought in these players.
09:44 He's now got a squad that I think he's happier with than he had last year.
09:48 But I think that that is a disappointing start.
09:50 A lot of people are thinking Barth aren't going to be exactly a strong team this season.
09:54 So Dartford will be frustrated by that.
09:56 But I think in time, they will get going.
09:59 I mean, if you look at the whole National League South, much fancy Joville, much fancy
10:03 Torquay, neither of them won at the weekend either.
10:05 So it's the first game of the season.
10:07 There's no need to press any panic buttons.
10:08 And I'm sure Dartford will be there or thereabouts again.
10:11 All right, then let's move down to the FA Prelim round.
10:15 Obviously, the Ismael League hasn't got started yet.
10:17 But I mean, all but one of our Kent sides are surviving through.
10:20 We have Sittingbourne replaying this week.
10:23 What did you make of those games?
10:24 Yeah, there's some good results in there for the Ismail League side and for the Southern
10:30 Counties East League as well.
10:31 So they've already played a league game, but most of those are in the FA Cup this weekend
10:34 and some brilliant results.
10:35 I mean, I think you'll be remiss not to point out Snodland Town, their FA Cup debut.
10:40 They were four nil winners away from home.
10:42 And Lidtown also made it through in their FA Cup debut as well.
10:45 And they've got a great tie in the preliminary round, which is on the 19th of August.
10:49 They'll be playing Deeltown, a local derby of sorts.
10:52 But I mean, Lid is kind of in the middle of nowhere anyway in terms of derbies.
10:56 But they've got Deeltown in the next round.
10:57 That'll be a great occasion for them.
11:00 The other big thing is I'm hearing lots of reports, especially in the National League,
11:04 of some question of officiating.
11:07 We saw it in the football league as well.
11:09 A record number of yellow cards in League One because they're really clamping down on
11:13 descent and kicking the ball away.
11:15 And I think it was a really frustrating weekend.
11:17 You look at Tummery James, who's had a player sent off for not much, I'm told.
11:22 And I think that we don't want to be talking about the officials week after week.
11:25 So hopefully that's going to calm down in the future.
11:27 So the big losers may be the referees and football itself.
11:30 Well, Jon, lots to look out for this season.
11:32 Thank you very much for joining us.
11:33 And hopefully we can catch you again later on.
11:35 Absolutely.
11:36 It's going to be a great season and good luck with the show as well.
11:39 Thank you.
11:40 Bye bye.
11:41 Well, it's time to take a quick break now.
11:42 But when we come back, we'll be speaking to Liu Batchelor, the presenter and coach from
11:46 Folkestone who has quite the habit of taking on sporting challenges.
11:49 We'll be speaking to her plus plenty more right here on Invicta Sport.
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15:08 Hello and welcome back to Invicta Sport live on KMTV.
15:13 Now an eight year old from Maidstone is facing his biggest challenge yet,
15:17 climbing a mountain as a double amputee.
15:20 Tony Hudrell was abused by his biological parents at just 41 days old.
15:24 Now he continues to inspire people across the world and taking on challenges for charity.
15:29 He's decided to climb Orrist Head in the Lake District.
15:32 He'll take on the 238 meter summit with a range of prosthetic legs and support from his family.
15:38 Well, here's Tony and his mom Paula talking about the preparations.
15:42 We've actually got two lots of prosthetics we'll be using.
15:46 One have a knee bend and the other ones don't.
15:49 So on the easier terrain, he'll be using his normal legs.
15:54 A little bit more complicated, then we'll be using the ones that don't bend.
15:58 And some of it he will be literally scrambling up with his, just some gloves on his hands
16:05 and a little bit of protection over his stumps.
16:08 And yeah, you've been working with your press ups and various bits and pieces, haven't you?
16:13 Lots of walking, lots of trying to climb.
16:16 I could climb nearly anything.
16:19 Well, now it's time to meet my next guest on Invicta Sport.
16:24 Liu Batchelor is a presenter, coach and eco-activist who went back at the start of June when it was a bit more sunny.
16:31 Liu took on her latest of a long line of sporting challenges to see which is faster in a typical Ashford morning rush hour.
16:37 A bike or a car?
16:39 It was all in a bid to encourage more people to switch to bikes for their morning commute.
16:43 Ashford Borough Council challenged the local cyclist on the feet, which was all live streamed to her YouTube channel.
16:48 But before we speak to Liu, this is how she got on.
16:51 I have got a new challenge. It's called...
16:55 A challenge of woman versus machine.
16:58 Liu Batchelor is gearing up to race to work in Ashford against a car using only a bike.
17:05 Her competition? British rallycross driver Tristan Ovenden and his co-pilot for the day, Aaron Taylor,
17:12 driving this, a fully electric Volvo C40.
17:16 The route both sides are taking is from Singleton in the Ashford suburbs to the coachwork shared workspace in the town centre.
17:24 Three, two, one, we're off.
17:29 OK, let's do this.
17:31 And it wasn't long before Tristan and Aaron join a queue of commuters making their way into town.
17:36 For Liu, however, it was a much smoother ride, but not without competition.
17:41 As the race drew to a close, margins were tight, but the final hurdle for the four wheelers was almost inevitable,
17:47 trying to find a parking space.
17:52 I think it was always going to be close, always going to be tight.
17:55 I had the much nicer route and I think it was close.
17:58 It was a quieter day on the roads than it would normally have been, but they lost on not being able to find parking.
18:04 So, you know, win for the bike, I'll take that.
18:06 But you know what? Now getting to the end of it, I kind of go, it doesn't matter.
18:09 Even if they had beat me, I would, I enjoyed it.
18:12 And it was fun, a beautiful day, lovely scenery, fresh air.
18:16 I mean, you can't ask for more, really.
18:18 We did actually do quite well.
18:19 So at one point it was quite clear, but we still, when we eventually got here, there's nowhere to park.
18:24 It was really stressful.
18:25 Yeah, it was quite nice to start with until we're thinking actually we need to get going.
18:29 Now we need to park.
18:30 It was really quite stressed out.
18:32 The car should have won.
18:33 It's not a long drive.
18:35 But when you're looking at Google Maps and it's just one stream of red, we thought it was going to be quite tight.
18:42 The aim of the Top Gear-esque experiment was to encourage more people to switch their cars for bikes,
18:47 all part of a Bike Week campaign from Ashford Borough Council's Climate Action Team.
18:53 What we wanted to do was look at what other benefits there are to cycling.
18:59 It's not just about reducing carbon.
19:01 It could actually be a quicker and cheaper commute.
19:04 We're looking at commuting here today, but there's lots of other journeys that people do during the week.
19:09 It could be that you've got to take the kids to a club at the weekend.
19:13 Why not walk? Why not cycle? Take them to school? Those sort of things.
19:18 So, yeah, that's what, as you say, reducing carbon emissions is one thing,
19:22 but it's looking at the other benefits that it brings as well.
19:26 And here is the bike that Liu used for the challenge.
19:29 Nothing particularly advanced.
19:30 Your average town bike at the most, perhaps a few gears at the back,
19:34 and of course the camera used for the live stream, but ultimately today's winner.
19:39 So, pedalling your way into summer fun could even be a wheely good deal.
19:44 Follow me for KMTV in Ashford.
19:49 Well, Liu, thank you very much for joining us.
19:51 I think even if you lost there, it was a lot of fun, wasn't it, racing against the cars?
19:54 What do you think when you look back on the challenge?
19:56 It's really lovely to watch it back and see the buzz and the excitement, really, that came from it,
20:02 like turning things like that into a challenge, bringing active travel, having a different perspective on it,
20:07 and that it can be fun and encouraging people to give it a try because that's what it was about.
20:12 You don't have to be a convert and cycle every day and give up the car.
20:16 Just give it a go. And, yeah, watching that back gets me excited to go.
20:20 Yeah, looking forward to getting back out on the bike again.
20:22 Well, I mean, part of the reason why you won, I mean, there was traffic, but there was also the parking issue as well for the drivers.
20:28 But, in a way, encouraging more people to cycle, that would get rid of the traffic as well.
20:33 So, it's kind of a two-in-one solution.
20:35 Absolutely. It's a win-win situation, really.
20:37 Yeah, that's it. So, why is it that you think not enough people are taking up cycling?
20:41 I think a lot of the time it can come down to fear of being on the roads for some people.
20:46 You know, not everyone had those cycling proficiency lessons kind of growing up.
20:50 It can be challenging. You know, the route that I took, it was very much about I found the routes to go off the main road,
20:57 which meant, yes, safer, but also more pleasant and more enjoyable.
21:01 But, yeah, I think that fear thing is a big thing for lots of people.
21:04 So, there are adult kind of courses, lessons that can teach people those basic skills to get back on the bike.
21:11 And a big part of the challenge as well was inviting members of the public to send in their pictures.
21:15 I believe we have a few that we can take a look at.
21:17 And, I mean, were you quite surprised how many people got back to you?
21:20 Because, I mean, this is just a small snippet of the video on your YouTube channel.
21:23 Yes. Yeah, it was a really wonderful thing.
21:25 And I love some of the ones there where it's a group of people and they've gone out as beginners.
21:29 It's more of a social thing. You know, they're not lycra-clad or anything like that.
21:33 It's just getting out and having fun.
21:35 And that's what I always try and say to people is use it as a social opportunity as well as the fitness,
21:40 the practical side of getting around.
21:42 There's lots of different ways to take cycling and that's what's been really lovely.
21:45 Because I'd say for me, I mean, I used to cycle to school every day,
21:48 but now my bike sort of sits at the end of the garden with some rusty chains.
21:52 So, yeah, it's definitely inspired me to get my bike out as well.
21:55 But, yeah, so I want to move on to talk about some of the other challenges that you've done then.
22:00 One of them, 100 sports in 100 days. That was back in 2014, I believe.
22:04 Yeah. Yeah, around that time. Take me back.
22:06 Where did that come from? 100 sports? I mean, I don't think I could name 100 sports.
22:10 Yeah, it was one of those ideas that just kind of popped into my head.
22:14 I was, you know, I was looking for a new sport to try myself.
22:17 I'd been injured in the past. I'd done kind of a sport that I really loved.
22:21 And because of the injury, I had to come out of it. And I was going, I want to find a new sport.
22:24 For me, it was injury. But also I was aware that there are a lot of people that don't like the gym.
22:29 They didn't like hockey, netball, rugby, those kind of sports at school.
22:33 So it was like, there are loads of other ones out there.
22:35 And I'd been lucky to try some of them in the past.
22:37 And so it was going, yeah, but could I do 100?
22:40 And the idea behind it really was about inspiring people that just because you're not good at the team sports,
22:46 maybe doesn't mean you might be amazing at judo or pole vault or underwater hockey
22:52 and all these random sports that people don't know exist.
22:55 And just go and give them a try. And there were some that I was rubbish at, but that was the point.
23:00 There were some that I loved, some that weren't for me. But it's not until you try them that you know.
23:06 Exactly. And well, of those 100 then, what were the ones that sort of surprised you the most?
23:10 Or even what were the ones that you maybe didn't like and you don't think you'd go back to?
23:14 So the ones that were really exciting for me were ice hockey, because I played hockey.
23:21 I'd done ice skating, but I hadn't done the two together.
23:24 Rock climbing was a really good one for me. Fencing was a surprising one that I loved.
23:28 But I think what I loved most about that was the club was so supportive.
23:33 And all they wanted was for me to enjoy it as much as they did.
23:36 And that was definitely the best sports or some of the best kind of sessions
23:41 were the ones where the people were passionate about it.
23:44 And it just showed me how many people there are out in our community.
23:48 Coaches, volunteers, just wanting people to have a good time.
23:52 Absolutely. And we hear about it all the time when we go and visit clubs.
23:55 It's all about the community. And that's why even if they're not playing competitively,
23:58 it's about having somewhere to go and people to mingle with and doing a sport that you love.
24:03 Another challenge that you set yourself up for was the Conquer the Kent Coast.
24:07 This is a full series that people are encouraged to go and watch on your channel.
24:11 What was that all about then? So you were going around the Kent Coast,
24:15 and that was all about community as well, showing people that there are sports that they can take up.
24:20 Yes. So this was with a friend, Georgie, and we met because she'd also had injuries.
24:25 She was a big cricket player, and she couldn't do it anymore.
24:29 So again, she was finding other things, and it was really going,
24:33 "OK, what about if we do this as a challenge to get around the coastline?"
24:37 And again, spotlight those places that you might not know about those sports,
24:41 but also those locations and those clubs, but making it bigger and better and going,
24:46 "Let's do it in 48 hours." And it was one of those things where you only get two people
24:51 who get overexcited together. That was what happened, and it just snowballed.
24:55 That's fantastic. We just saw a few of them on the screen there as well.
24:58 There was cycling around Folkestone. There was golf in there.
25:01 There was a bit of American football in there as well.
25:03 Yes. Yes. This is a surprising one. American football in Kent.
25:06 I've heard of it before. I haven't had a chance to go down. What was that all like?
25:09 So they have a great club, Mavericks, I think, from memory, based in Canterbury.
25:14 But they're a great club, and what I loved about when I'd done stuff with them
25:18 is that, again, it's those people that sometimes will play American football or rugby,
25:23 that wouldn't necessarily consider themselves sporty, but they're great at those sorts of sports.
25:28 And this is what I love. Every body type has a perfect sport.
25:32 So go and try those different things because fitness is a subjective thing
25:36 based on the thing and the activity that you're doing,
25:38 and American football is very different from a lot of sports we have over here.
25:42 So it's a great opportunity that you might not get in other disciplines.
25:45 I've got another question. You did a lot of these challenges prior to lockdown and COVID,
25:50 and we've seen a lot of these switches to people working from home and staying indoors a lot more.
25:55 Do you think that that sort of challenge to get people to get off their phones
25:59 and get out there is a bit more needed now?
26:02 Yeah, I think so. It's that habit, isn't it? And I think during lockdown,
26:06 we all got out of that habit or we had to do home workouts that aren't necessarily as exciting.
26:11 I think, you know, the active travel is a great example because there's dual benefit of the cycling,
26:17 but also it's better for the environment, it's better for our health and our mental health.
26:21 And I think lockdown, mental health was a big issue.
26:24 So sport is more important now than ever to be able to give people those opportunities to achieve goals,
26:31 but also the well-being that comes from just going and punching a punch bag for a few hours
26:36 or like, you know, throwing yourself down a hill.
26:39 All right. Well, thank you very much for joining us. That's full time on today's programme.
26:42 We'll have to get you on again and hear more about your challenges.
26:44 But for now, that's it. See you next time.
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