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 PART 3
 JEANNE: Hi Thomas, how are you enjoying the course so far?
 THOMAS: Yeah, I think it’s good.
 JEANNE: Remind me – why did you decide to study sports science?&nbsp;
 Didn’t you want to be a professional athlete when you were at school?
 THOMAS: Yeah – that was my goal, and 
 all my classmates assumed I would achieve it; they thought I was brilliant. (Q21/22)
 JEANNE: That must have been a nice feeling.
 THOMAS: Mm, I thought I could win anything.&nbsp;
 There was no one who could run faster than me.
 JEANNE: Exactly – so what happened?&nbsp;
 Did your mum and dad want you to be more ‘academic’?
 THOMAS: Not at all. 
 Perhaps they should have pushed me harder, though. (Q21/22)
 JEANNE: What do you mean?
 THOMAS: 
 I think I should have practised more. (Q21/22)
 JEANNE: What makes you say that?
 THOMAS: Well, I went out to Kenya for a couple of weeks to train …
 JEANNE: Really! I didn’t know that.
 THOMAS: I was chosen to go there out of loads of kids and run with some of the top teenage athletes in the world.&nbsp;
 And … I was so calm about it.&nbsp;
 
 I just kept thinking how fortunate I was.&nbsp; What a great chance this was!&nbsp;(Q23/24)
 Everyone back home was so proud of me.&nbsp;
 But once we started competing, I very quickly realised I wasn’t good enough.
 JEANNE: That must have been a huge shock.
 THOMAS: 
 I thought ‘this can’t be happening’! (Q23/24)
 I was used to winning.
 JEANNE: I’m sorry to hear that.
 THOMAS: It’s OK. I’m over it now and I think it’s much better to do a university course and this one has such a variety of sports-related areas.&nbsp;
 It’s going to be good.
 JEANNE: Oh, I agree – I chose it because of that.
 THOMAS: So Jeanne – have you thought of any ideas for the discussion session next week on technology and sport?
 JEANNE: We have to cover more than one sport, don’t we?
 THOMAS: Yeah.
 JEANNE: You know – we always think technology is about the future, but we could gather some ideas about past developments in sport.
 THOMAS: Look at early types of equipment perhaps?
 Uh, I remember reading something about table tennis bats once – how they ended up being covered with pimpled rubber.
 JEANNE: Cos they were just wooden at first, I’d imagine.
 THOMAS: Yeah. In about the 1920s, 
 a factory was making rolls of the rubber in bulk&nbsp;(Q25) for something like horse harnesses.
 JEANNE: Really!
 THOMAS: Yeah – and 
 someone realised that it’d make a perfect covering for the wooden bats (Q25).
 JEANNE: So what about cricket – that’s had a few innovative changes.&nbsp;
 Maybe the pads they wear on their legs?
 THOMAS: I don’t think they’ve changed much but, I’m just looking on the internet … and it says that 
 when the first cricket helmet came in, in 1978, the Australian batsman who first wore it was booed and jeered by people&nbsp;(Q26) watching because it was so ugly!
 JEANNE: Wow, players have to protect themselves from getting hurt!&nbsp;
 I mean everyone wears one now.
 THOMAS: Mm, unlike the cycle helmet.
 JEANNE: Well, unless you’re a professional, but you’re right, many ordinary bikers don’t wear a helmet.
 THOMAS: Hey, look at these pictures of original helmet designs.
 This one looks like an upside-down bowl!
 JEANNE: Yet, the woman’s laughing – she’s so proud to be wearing it!
 THOMAS: It says 
 serious cyclists ended up with wet hair (Q27) from all the hard exercise.
 JEANNE: I guess 
 that’s why they have large air vents in them now so that the skin can breathe more easily. 
 (Q27)
 THOMAS: OK, so we’ve done helmets.&nbsp;
 What about golf balls or better still golf clubs – they’ve changed a lot.
 JEANNE: Yeah – I remember my great grandfather telling me that 
 because a club was made entirely of wood, it would easily break and players had to get another. (Q28)
 THOMAS: There’s no wood at all in them now, is there?
 JEANNE: No – they’re much more powerful.
 THOMAS: The same must be true of hockey sticks.
 JEANNE: I don’t think so because players still use wooden sticks today.&nbsp;
 What it does say here, though, is that 
 when the game started you had to produce a stick yourself.&nbsp;(Q29)
 THOMAS: I guess they just weren’t being manufactured.&nbsp;
 So, one more perhaps. What about football?
 JEANNE: Well, I know the first balls were made of animal skin.
 THOMAS: Yeah, they covered them with pieces of leather that were stitched together, but … the balls let in water when it rained.
 JEANNE: Oh, that would have made them much heavier.
 THOMAS: That’s right. 
 You can imagine the damage to players’ necks when the ball was headed. (Q30)
 JEANNE: How painful that must have been!
 THOMAS: Yeah, well, I think we can put together some useful ideas …
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