Leeds Olympic Dreams
With the Olympic Games underway in Paris, Leeds locals reveal which sport they would like to train for and compete in.
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00:00I'm like really excited about the Olympics anyway, I've been just trying to follow but since I'm a student it's been like, you know, it takes some time so...
00:07But I used to play archery and I'm still trying to keep it up, so if I would be an Olympian I would say that would be like my base sport, so I would literally love to do archery.
00:18I've played for England, I was captain of Yorkshire when I was a kid, but I got run over and I broke both my kneecaps and it ended my career until I was about 21 and then I played for a local pub team, football.
00:33I'm too old for the Olympics first, but growing up I loved cricket, wind ball cricket because I'm from the Caribbean, from the British Virgin Islands and yes I would love to see some ladies wind ball cricket in the Olympics in the near future.
00:51And I would love to big up the British Virgin Islands Olympic team, Khadija Hodge, Kieron McMaster and the whole team.
01:01An Olympian of possibly football Olympics really, I don't really follow the track and field to be honest with you.
01:10But apart from that I'm generally not a racket sport person either, Wimbledon doesn't really interest me that much, I can't wait for Leeds United to start a season again.
01:22I used to be a breakdancer and it's one of the new ones in the Olympics right now. Shout out to Kid Karam, he's representing the UK I'm pretty sure. Breaking is probably the most intense sport out of all the sports in my opinion, so yeah, breaking definitely.
01:40Football, even though we didn't qualify, yeah.
01:44Swimming?
01:47I've not watched any of it if I'm honest. If I were to be an Olympian I'd have no idea, I'm not athletic in the slightest to be honest with you. Maybe weightlifting, I don't know, maybe I don't know.