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Radio Wales,27 Aug 2020,27 mins

Welsh Olympic hopefuls Leah Wilkinson and Sarah Jones

Jacko's Sporting Almanac

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Olympic hopefuls and partners Sarah Jones and Leah Wilkinson – nearly 300 Wales and GB caps between them – ponder sacrifice and frustration in the wake of the 2020 cancellation of the Tokyo games. Peter Jackson hears who how the hockey stars are planning to do what they can to make sure they make it when the Olympics are held again. And Peter trawls the archive to hear Jesse Owens on Lynn Davies and other stories of Welsh derring-do and Government interference from the Games in Tokyo in 1964 and Moscow in 1980.

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