British squad flies out for Korea olympics preparations
- Title
- British squad flies out for Korea olympics preparations
- Genre
- News report; Interview
- TX Date
- 6 Sep 1988
- Year of production
- 1988
- Play audio
- To listen to the audio files, please log in.
- Duration
- 00:01:13
- Description
- Linda Duffin reports from Heathrow Airport as the British Olympic squad flies out to Seoul, South Korea today with Chairman of the British Olympic Association, Charles Palmer and Princess Anne’s husband, Captain Mark Phillips, who is on the equestrian team. Winner of the javelin gold medal at the last Olympics Tessa Sanderson says she is hoping to repeat the feat, but there will be no medal for horse Royal Eventa(?) who was removed from the plane after throwing a tantrum.
- Contributors
- Tessa Sanderson; Linda Duffin
- Keywords
- Sports competitions; Heathrow Airport; Olympic games; Horses; Princess Anne; Korea; Seoul; Korea R; British Olympic Association; Charles Palmer; Captain Mark Phillips
The copyright of audio recordings in the LBC / IRN Digitisation Archive is owned by Global Radio UK Ltd.