Sportsworld   /     The Warm Up Track: Gold Medallists Special

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In a special Season-ending episode The Warm Up Track welcomes two brand new world champions from Budapest, Hurdler Danielle Williams and Long Jumper Miltiadis Tentoglou. What’s it like winning your second World title eight years after your first? How do you win Gold with your last jump of the competition? Who celebrated their Gold medal with a slice of chocolate cake? Danielle also explains her ideas for improving and evolving the sport of Track and Field as we look at what Budapest did well and the lessons that can be learned for future world championships. More broadly, we also explore how Athletics can and should be making a bigger impact as a global sport. Miltiadis explains how his success has led to Greece embracing the Long Jump and plenty of young people taking up the sport of Athletics in his home town and across the country. We also look ahead to Paris 2024. Danielle will be looking to qualify for the Games for the first time, while Miltiadis will hope to make a successful defence of the title he won in Tokyo. Photo: Danielle Williams of Jamaica poses for photos following the women's 100m hurdles final during day six of the World Athletics Championships Budapest 2023 at National Athletics Centre on August 24, 2023 in Budapest, Hungary. (Credit: Getty Images)

Subtitle
The Warm Up Track welcomes two brand new world champions from Budapest.
Duration
3238
Publishing date
2023-09-10 10:30
Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0gcrf07
Contributors
  BBC World Service
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Enclosures
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-low/proto/http/vpid/p0gcrd75.mp3
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