a little story. that magnified to some other country where everyone in indonesia will be suddenly watching a badminton game, or brazil will suddenly be watching the football, or we are going to be watching swimming, athletics, swimming, rowing, orsailing, swimming, athletics, swimming, rowing, or sailing, whatever it may be, it is magnificent sporting salivation. be, it is magnificent sporting salivation. ., ., ., . salivation. indonesia have a chance in the surfing- salivation. indonesia have a chance in the surfing. they salivation. indonesia have a chance in the surfing. they have salivation. indonesia have a chance in the surfing. they have a - salivation. indonesia have a chance i in the surfing. they have a champion surfer. how are team gb looking? there have been some notable athletes who one year extra was too much and we have lost them, and that s a shame. but equally there have been a young some young athletes who have come up to that level after that year. i hope t
hopefully we get some good waves, you know? and make the best of it. i know we are not going to have people on the beach there, not many, you know, but, yeah, i know everyone is going to be reading for as and i appreciate all the love and support. surfing is a very individual sport. you know? we are not having a contest that is a real team you know? we are for brazil, but i want to win the gold medal, everyone wants a gold medal, sojust one guy is gonna win. the sport will grow even more, you know, and this is a great opportunity for everyone, you know? so it s good for the sport, good for the new generation and, good for us. we work really hard for this, you know? and we can inspire people to one day become a professional surfer and change their life just
to get the thoughts their medals as well. so fantastic to get the thoughts of their medals as well. so fantastic to get the thoughts of matthew i to get the thoughts of matthew pinsent. we talked about some of the new sports after we finished the interview. we re both excited to see how the surfing will be making its olympic debut these games. a0 athletes will take to the waves of tsurigasaki beach. one of the favourites will be brazil s gabriel medina he s already a double world champion and runs his own educational foundation for young surfers in sao paulo. he s confident he can rise to the challenge and become surfing s first male olympic champion. it feels amazing, the olympics are coming up. it s really big for us, you know, for this sport, and i m excited to go to japan. it will be a good event.
like we did. a huge amount of interest in the surfing. they need the waves, of course, and the conditions are still very calm in tokyo but we are keeping an eye on the beach and hoping they get the right conditions to surf in because otherwise they could be some delays to that event. thank you, lucy, much more from lucy through the olympics, of course. now here are the headlines on bbc news. it s finally happeneing the tokyo games officially starts today. thousands of workers in the food supply chain won t need to isolate if they re pinged by the nhs covid app. a new study suggests that daily lateral flow testing for pupils in could be equally as effective
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