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Jonty Clarke, Jordanne Whiley and missiles in the East End.

Jul 10, 201226 min
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Episode description

Andy Murray and Jonathan Marray weren’t the only British finalists at Wimbledon, Jordanne Whiley also made history as part of the first all-British wheelchair tennis pair to make the final. Team GB hockey star Jonty Clarke explains why he values the public pressure and expectation attached to a home Games. After Luol Deng of the Chicago Bulls was named in the British men's basketball squad for the Olympics, BBC Leicester’s John Sinclair speaks to Team GB captain Andrew Sullivan and head coach Chris Finch. BBC 5 Live Breakfast debates if surface-to-air missiles should be placed on the roof of East London flats during the London Games. Radio 2 travels back to the 1948 Austerity Games for The Ballads of the Games. Finally with less than three weeks until the opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, the iconic Jet Pack Man of the 1984 Los Angeles Games carries the torch through Leicester.

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