AUSTRALIA: RUGBY FOOTBALLERS DRIVE THEMSELVES BEYOND HUMANE ENDURANCE ON NEW "TORTURE" MACHINES.
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1061659
AUSTRALIA: RUGBY FOOTBALLERS DRIVE THEMSELVES BEYOND HUMANE ENDURANCE ON NEW "TORTURE" MACHINES.
- Title: AUSTRALIA: RUGBY FOOTBALLERS DRIVE THEMSELVES BEYOND HUMANE ENDURANCE ON NEW "TORTURE" MACHINES.
- Date: 26th February 1976
- Summary: 1. GV Australian football crowd eating pies, drinking beer and listening to portable radios (3 shots) 0.10 2. GV Rugby game in progress 0.19 3. GV Football player moaning and groaning as he used leg training machine (3 shots) 0.42 4. GV Coach spurs on footballer who moans and groans as he does arm exercises 1.00 5. GV Coach assists player to use leg machine 1.14 6. GV Footballer grimaces as he uses weights 1.22 7. CU Footballer moaning and groaning as he does arm exercises 1.41 8. Coach spurs on footballers doing arm exercises (2 shots) 2.14 "Pie eating, the great Australian way of sport: to watch, to listen and occasionally to summon up enough energy to hurl abuse. But for those who actually participate the game has become a deadly serious business, and it requires deadly serious training. It looks like something from the Spanish Inquisition. It sounds like something from the Spanish Inquisition but in fact it's the latest secret weapon in a fight which is about to resume this weekend." CLUB OFFICIAL:"(Indistinct) into shock if you train them too hard initially, all right. So we have an education programme to ... the response that they have without getting a nauseating, headachy feeling ... breaking out in a cold sweat ... of course this is a particularly brutal type of training. I think the athlete does develop a much more positive attitude towards hard work, becomes much more tenacious, he develops a killer instinct certainly. He has to, you know, otherwise the doesn't survive out there." MALCOLM: "It introduces a couple of other muscle groups to allow the exhausted muscle group which has just worked to go beyond the point of normal failure so this provides an enormous stimulus and strength. Again he goes to a point where he cannot straighten his arms out .. come on ..." Initials CL/0018 CL/0100 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
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