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00:00players nominated in September for the women's Ballon d'Or with Alex Greenwood the only other
00:04English player on the shortlist. Medway's strong start to the Regional 2 South East League kept
00:11going with a 24-7 win over Sutton and Epsom. The home side started strong with Pete Cole scoring
00:17a hat-trick and Henry Kenny taking player of the match awards. The second half proved to be more
00:23difficult with both sides struggling with their possession. Ultimately Medway won out. The game
00:28was made safe when a loose offload was intercepted by Max Bullock who countered to see out the game.
00:33On Saturday Medway will host leaders Beckenham. Kent Cricket Club's head coach Adam Hollyoak says
00:39the club have found a winning formula for their return to top flight cricket. The side secured
00:44a second place finish behind unbeaten champions Durham in the summer. He started by talking about
00:49the workload of his team bowler attack saying we started the year with the plan to start on wickets
00:53like these which will support the quicks. He also added he's been motivated by his players
00:57through their work ethic.
01:00Now let's take a look back at this weekend's football results.
01:04Starting us off, it's a chance for the Darts to fly higher up the Isthmian league premier
01:08table hosting Wingate and Finchley at Princes Park. Dartford have been racking up wins with
01:13four league victories in a row before a 2-1 loss to Ramsgate in the midweek ended that streak.
01:18On the other hand Wingate are at the lower end of the table having suffered losses from
01:23Welling and Enfield. And right after kick off there was an early opportunity for the Darts,
01:27Max Fids hits the post. Almost at 20 minutes now, a defender goes to clear. Ooh, that is
01:32a big mistake booted into the path of Greenhalgh for an easy tap-in. What a lucky break for
01:37the player manager. Ball over the top to pass back its centre cross and it goes to anointed
01:43Chukwu who just tucks it away at the near post. Not a fast strike but a well-placed goal for
01:48the Blues to equalise. And time is running out for the Darts. He passes to the right side,
01:52beats his man. Lovely pass and what a strike. Top bins from Louis Atkins to earn three points
01:57right at the death of the game. A first goal for him this season and what a moment to choose.
02:03And the whistle seals it with the Darts moving to the joint top of the table while Wingate
02:07remain on the lower side of that points total. And let's see what the manager had to say
02:11about that result.
02:12I think the biggest thing that we wanted to get right from Tuesday is, on Tuesday looking
02:17back here, the second half they really sat a long way behind the ball and we created
02:22our own frustration and we created the frustration around the ground. And that's something that
02:28I said we've got to do a little bit better at and we've got to be a little bit, control
02:31our emotions better. Because understandably, on Tuesday, everything just seemed a bit negative
02:36but then the way we were playing was probably half causing that negativity. And we went into
02:41the meeting room on Thursday and showed some of the stuff to understand why that frustration
02:45will be kicking within us because I was, partly to blame as well, I was very frustrated on
02:50Tuesday because our quality wasn't there. And that's something that I think we needed
02:55to improve on and today I think we showed that.
02:57Elsewhere in the Isthmian League, Premier Chatham Town fired three past Brentwood Town,
03:01but Ramsgate one-upped them with four goals against Whitehawk on the road. The Darts will
03:06take a trip to AFC Whiteleaf with the other Kent sides also on the road, the Rams charging
03:10over the Thames to see if they can beat Wingate and Finchley as well. And the Chats will head to
03:15Averley. Up to League Two, an impressive tally of goals for the Gilles, Ronan Hale earning
03:19himself a brace, one from open play, the other from a penalty. The win sees the Gilles move
03:24up to fourth and if they want to climb higher, they'll have to keep their good away form against
03:28Accrington Stanley on the road. Down to the National League South, Anne Maidstone earned
03:32themselves three points in a tight contest against Horsham while Folkestone were held to a draw
03:37away to West and Supermare. Ebbsfleet sailed to a 2-0 victory over Hampton and Richmond Borough,
03:42and Dover saw the same result to Dorking while the Angels flew their way to three points at
03:46Maidenhead. They'll face off against Hemel Hempstead at home. Dover will face Dorking
03:50again this time for the FA Cup. The fleet will play host to Totten in the midweek, preparing
03:55them for a fight with Folkestone at the weekend and Maidstone will try and copy the Angels for
03:59their match with Maidenhead. And that's all for this week's Football Roundup.
04:03A woman from Ramsgate has released her new book detailing how she went from a difficult
04:08place in her life to finishing an Ironman. I spoke to Kei Zhang about her journey earlier.
04:13Well, thank you so much for joining me, Kei. Now, tell me a bit about before this Ironman.
04:18I'm aware you didn't have much experience with that sort of thing, and you said it sort
04:22of just happened to you. So tell me a bit about that. Tell me a bit about your sort of
04:25journey
04:25to the Ironman. Well, I started running actually at the age of 41. Prior to that, I never run.
04:36I was never athletic. Only the only reason I started training is because I divorced. Life
04:46presented itself with lots of difficulties, lots of challenges. And running became a way of escape.
04:55of process my pain. And then when I was 42, I experienced some pain on my knees like most runners
05:07would do. So I thought I need to expand the access regime in order to come back to each other.
05:16So I joined a local triathlon club. And start from there. Start from like a spring
05:25different level triathlon. Then a half Ironman Olympic distance and eventually reach the Ironman.
05:34I didn't want to do it, but it just came.
05:38That's amazing. So you kind of used it as a way to kind of get through a difficult time.
05:43Would you advise others to do the same?
05:45I just feel when when we reach this stage of life, things happen all of a sudden, regardless
05:53if you like it or not, our experience would come to you. And sometimes it can be so difficult
06:01difficult to process why this happened. What is there for me? Instead, I think if you go out doing
06:10things you love and process the pain, don't run away from them. Instead, process the pain.
06:18I think you will get there. There is a saying is. Oh, yeah, this is something different.
06:28For example, there is a saying is you are not the person other people think you are.
06:35You're not the person you think you are. You're the person you are facing.
06:39Therefore, at that time, I faced lots of challenges and lots of people came to me, present them as a
06:48teacher, as a coach.
06:51And that's triggered me into this path.
06:55I see. And tell me about that path. I mean, how was it? What was the training regimen like?
07:02For the Ironman itself or for everything?
07:04I suppose for everything.
07:05Oh, the Ironman actually is a metaphor for life. It's not a single event.
07:13We all know Ironman involves long distance running, swimming and cycling.
07:20In reality, it involves much more. You have to mentally prepare for it.
07:26With the short distance events, it's relatively easy.
07:30But with Ironman, you spend a lot of time with yourself.
07:35The most challenge we are facing as a person is not from others' criticism.
07:43It's not from how others define you.
07:46Rather than we're facing our own cages.
07:50We face our own definitions. Am I able to do this? Am I able to face this challenge?
07:57In the process of processing the pain, we have the power. We discover the power of rewrite our life story.
08:06So, I remember I had a record at that time, each week, how many hours I need to train.
08:14And I remember there are so many friends at that time. There was a professor in mathematics.
08:21He told me, he taught me how to run, for example, prepare a marathon in a mathematical way.
08:30Thinking back, I still feel, wow, it's logical, it's funny as well.
08:36So, let's come back to the Ironman training.
08:40I started maybe about 10 hours each week and gradually increased to 18 hours or 20 hours.
08:49As a single mother at that time, I didn't really have this much time, a chunk of time.
08:54Instead, I break them down.
08:58For example, commuting to work.
09:00I would stop at Maidstone.
09:03There is a Whitehorse Country Park.
09:06I would park there, maybe run one or two hours before I continue with my journey again.
09:14So, all of this count to the weekly training.
09:19Well, it was great to chat to Kaye there,
09:21get an insight into the background behind her book and her journey.
09:25But that is half time, meaning it is time for a break.
09:28But coming up, watch on as I spoke to Bronte School's teaching staff
09:33and a couple of their students, their head, boy and girl,
09:36all about their 24-hour cycling race that they took part in,
09:40all to raise money for Eleanor Hospice,
09:43a local charity that does a lot for families in their community.
09:46They told us there were a large number of teachers taking part,
09:49taking turns to cycle throughout that 24 hours,
09:52including some overnight shifts as well.
09:54I spoke to them all about what the experience was like
09:57and how the students felt because they actually came up with the idea.
10:01Not sure I'd be up for the challenge, but they certainly were.
10:04So, you can catch that after this short break.
10:06See you in a second.
13:24Hello and welcome back to Invictus Sports live here on KMTV.
13:29Now, do you think you could cycle for 24 hours?
13:32Well, the teachers of Bronte Primary School did just that
13:35and raised £5,000 for charity in the process.
13:38The idea originally came from their pupil parliament
13:40where the students pitched it to the staff
13:42who finished the challenge by the morning assembly.
13:44I spoke to the teachers and students of Bronte Primary earlier today.
13:49Well, it's certainly a crowded sofa here on Invictus Sports.
13:52We're going to come to our teachers first of all,
13:55Mr. Lovach and Mrs. Wood.
13:58So, first of all, guys, tell us a bit about how this idea all got started.
14:01Was there something brewing in the staff room for a while?
14:03No.
14:04Actually, it was nothing to do with the staff room.
14:06It was all to do with the children.
14:08So, we have our pupil parliament and last year pupil parliament
14:12children decided that they'd like to raise some money for a charity.
14:16The Eleanor Hospice has meant a lot to lots of our families
14:19and they decided they wanted to raise some money.
14:23And one way they decided was through a cycle.
14:27They decided that a 24-hour sponsored cycle through the night
14:31would be a good idea to raise some money.
14:34Amazing.
14:35And tell us a bit about that journey then from idea to it actually happening.
14:39Talk to us a bit about, I guess, that journey.
14:40Super.
14:41So, I meet with pupil parliament.
14:43We meet a few times a term and I had sort of a list for Mrs. Wood
14:47and that was top of my agenda and she agreed.
14:50We got some teachers involved.
14:51We asked lots of people and we then contacted Eleanor.
14:54They gave us some t-shirts and then we set off.
14:58Brilliant.
14:58And I suppose, was there much training involved as well?
15:00Tell us about that side of it.
15:03Well, perhaps training in terms of during the day,
15:07making sure that we can teach while we're cycling.
15:09Oh, wow.
15:09That was quite good fun, wasn't it?
15:11Some of the teachers were teaching at the same time
15:13as being on the stage and cycling.
15:16We had assembly at the same time as we were cycling.
15:19I was on the gate in the morning on the bike, wasn't I,
15:22welcoming the children into school.
15:24But I will say the trickiest part was overnight.
15:28We'll get onto that in a moment.
15:29I'll come to our students here.
15:31So, Noah and Isla, tell us a bit about it from your side.
15:33Was this something you guys were really looking forward to?
15:37Yes.
15:38I thought it was like, I'd never seen like,
15:41I would have never thought that our teachers
15:44would be riding a bike for 24 hours for fundraising.
15:48But I thought it was very good.
15:51And we had to do some like assemblies and we had singing
15:57whilst we were watching one of our teachers on the bike.
16:01Brilliant.
16:01I bet that was an interesting sight,
16:03not something you would expect to see on a crisp Monday morning at assembly.
16:05And Arna, what was it like for you?
16:06What was it like to watch your teachers do this?
16:08So then the following day we had another assembly,
16:12which halfway through we had to do a huge countdown
16:15because the 24 hours ended up ending.
16:18Wow, so it was sort of like a big kind of final ending moment,
16:22almost like a finish line.
16:23The whole school were there, weren't they?
16:25The children did keep us going though.
16:27They supplied lots of snacks and things to us very gratefully received.
16:31Kyla, what did you think when you went to bed that night?
16:34So whilst I was getting ready to go to bed,
16:36me and my sister Kyla, we thought,
16:38why do we bring some snacks in for the teachers to keep them going?
16:42Oh, brilliant. So you came into school at night.
16:45Was that a bit eerie?
16:47Yeah.
16:47It was very dark, wasn't it?
16:49It's really nice though, giving back to your teachers
16:52while they're also raising money for the charity, I suppose.
16:55Tell us a bit about the logistics of it.
16:57Was it one teacher at a time here and there?
17:00Or how long were the stretches, I suppose?
17:02Mrs Wood was very strict.
17:03We had two bikes going.
17:05So if anybody ever needed a quick drink or needed to pop off,
17:08so there was no changeovers, et cetera.
17:10So there was always sort of, always the pedals and one bike going.
17:13So they definitely were 24 hours.
17:16And how did you two find it as individuals?
17:18What were your sort of shifts like, I suppose?
17:20We did tend to do some of the night shifts,
17:23but lots of other staff came in as well
17:24and did early morning and late nights.
17:26And I stayed over in the school,
17:29so I had a sleepover in school to let people in and let them out again.
17:33But we had so many staff wanting to take part.
17:36Quite often it wasn't just one person.
17:38It was actually two people cycling at once up on the stage.
17:41Brilliant.
17:42Was there any sort of healthy competition maybe?
17:43Was some of the English teachers trying to be out of the math students?
17:46I'm sure the PE teachers thought a point of pride that they had to do the best.
17:50Definitely. Definitely.
17:52It was hard work.
17:54We had Reverend Jim from St George's Church pop in
17:56and he did the lunchtime shift and he was speedy.
18:00So I had to try and keep up with him.
18:02He set the tone, didn't he?
18:04That's brilliant.
18:04And £5,000 raised.
18:06I mean, that's a great bit of money.
18:08How does it feel from your guys' perspective that your school managed to do this?
18:10I mean, coming from the pupil parliament all the way to it actually happening,
18:14what does that feel like for you guys?
18:15I'm very shocked that just from like, maybe just from one little idea,
18:21maybe my teachers could do a cycle for 24 hours and it turned into raising £5,000.
18:30Brilliant.
18:30And Isla, yeah?
18:31I'm sure that Mrs Wood even agreed to do it.
18:35Well, we were rather shocked when they suggested doing it.
18:38We thought that's a wonderful idea.
18:40Are the children going to be cycling?
18:41And they said, no, it'll be all the adults cycling.
18:44So I think if we do it again, I think the teachers might decide perhaps the children can do the
18:48cycling.
18:50Or something else, whatever's next.
18:51I was going to say, we could have our own little parliament right now and figure out what's next.
18:55I mean, could we do a football match, maybe?
18:58I don't know.
18:59What other sports could we do?
19:01We could road to France, maybe.
19:02Road to France.
19:03Don't worry, only joking.
19:05Yes, we play quite a lot of different sports, don't we?
19:08So maybe handball or we have basketball or netball.
19:12You have competitions against the teachers, don't you?
19:14Oh, that could be fun.
19:15There we go.
19:16Continuous sports match sounds.
19:17Sounds good.
19:18Yeah, I think 90 minutes would be enough for me.
19:20I'm not sure if I could do 90 hours, I think, you know.
19:23But, yeah, I mean, well, that's really, really brilliant.
19:25It's really great to get you guys on this over talking about this sort of thing.
19:29So, yeah, I mean, is there anything else you guys want to say about how it all went,
19:33about that money raised and what it means as a school?
19:36I think we were really grateful to all of our families, our staff, everybody getting involved.
19:41It was a really nice sense of team spirit.
19:43Yeah, it really brought everybody together.
19:45I think the children enjoyed seeing the staff on the stage.
19:49We all got together, enjoyed doing it, and it was for such an amazing cause.
19:54So many of our families have unfortunately needed to use Eleanor Hospice.
19:59I think our families were incredibly generous.
20:02So we're very grateful.
20:03So definitely a cause close to the school's heart then?
20:05Definitely.
20:06I see. Amazing.
20:07Well, thank you all so much for joining me.
20:09I really do appreciate your time.
20:10Lovely. Thank you very much.
20:10Thank you very much.
20:14It was great to speak to the teachers and students there from Bronte School.
20:19Moving on, don't forget you can keep up to date with all the latest football news
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21:01This is the pitch where amateur footballer Kevin Smith suffered a cardiac arrest in March.
21:08Something he says he wouldn't have survived without a defibrillator.
21:12I did say to one of our paramedics who was working on me, am I going to die?
21:19And the paramedic was really very professional and he just looked at me and he said, I'm doing
21:23everything I can mate to save it. I just thought, I hope my wife gets here before I pass.
21:29And I was just glad that my daughter wasn't here watching.
21:33Kevin was playing in a local derby match when his heart stopped and he collapsed,
21:38effectively dying for 15 minutes. But his friends and teammates saved his life,
21:44performing CPR and shocking him with a defibrillator until help arrived.
21:49The first thing the lady asked me, she said, how many shots has Kevin had?
21:53I said, I've just done a third. And she put her finger there, felt a pulse, realised that he'd recovered.
22:06Well, we brought him back. A shot of adrenaline and they performed their miracle.
22:11It took three shots from a defibrillator to bring Kevin back round.
22:16But new research from Every Minute Matters shows that 64% of people here in the South East would be
22:24too afraid to use one.
22:26Now, Kevin's hoping that sharing his story will encourage others to become more confident.
22:31Please don't be frightened. Defib is so beautifully structured as a tool that it shows you everything you need to
22:40do.
22:41And you can't do anything wrong by doing a defib. You can do something massively right if you give someone
22:48that extra time that can save their lives.
22:50In an emergency, the 999 call handler will inform you where the nearest defibrillator is.
22:56And the British Heart Foundation also has an online tool which shows you where to find one.
23:02For Kevin, the football grounds defibrillator gave him a second chance at life.
23:07And he says the game will always play a vital role for him.
23:11My wife had always said to me, football will be the death of you.
23:14In the early hours of the 7th of March, I was able to say, football saved my life.
23:20So, football saved my life because of a defect.
23:22Kevin is living proof that the sports we give our hearts to might just be the very thing that saves
23:29them.
23:29Sophie Denny for KMTV in Chatham.
23:34Canterbury's own Pippa Goddard has added another major title to her belt after winning Talent Seekers on the opening day
23:39in Birmingham.
23:40After triumphing in the Senior Newcomers Championship last year, she was back with her grey mare and got six combinations
23:47from 29 starters and progressed to the jump off.
23:50She said, I think when you're riding a horse like her, you can always have a little bit of an
23:54expectation.
23:54That was from Goddard after her victory.
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