Me and Anthony enjoyed doing Liverpool because we live local and knew almost everyone. We started off the day helping set-up then we began interviewing the young people who was excited about the event, we interviewed young people before the race then after the winners, after this we uploaded them onto the computer and took some pictures we had a fun time, sadly this was our last one but we wish to volunteer for plenty more events with MediaSnackers.
Today we were at Lillian Baylis Old School, and it was the biggest turn-out for our coverage to date. There were some brilliant talents, from performances the likes of the Kombat Breakers, various dance groups and cheerleading from local children and the Jersey Nets whom the dads seemed to really appreciate…
Mark Lewis-Francis was also there in replacement for Linford Christie with Darren Campbell in his usual role as starter. Also in attendance was the Mayor of Lambeth, other Lambeth reps and several other media crews.
All in all the competition was very fast, and a fab day was had by all in the glorious sunshine!
Have loads of fun and hope you enjoy the pictures and video.
Dulcie May Moreno reporting for Street Athletics 2008 in Hackney!!
WOW! What a blindingly sunny day, the heat has been INTENSE!! Some really skilled athletes here today, muscles of steel and stamina off this planet. It was held Outside the New Testament Church, the street was closed off and two white lines were drawn for the start and finish, the DJ played Rnb in the middle of the downs park Road, and there were signs and banners everywhere. There was a wide variation of age groups, and many races took place one after the other, the kids lined up with Linford and Darren to compete against each other. Despite the fact they were competing, there was a great sense of community within the competitors and parents, It was the taking part and the coming together as a community that really mattered to all of them. Of course, the winners were overjoyed. Dog Tags and T shirts for all who took part. Overall, a successful day to be had by all.
Nice one to Robert- who took some pics and even did a short interview for us as we were one man down! He also won his race and is off to Manchester! Well done mate!
Dulcie May Moreno here, reporting for Street Athletics 2008! What a lovely hot day, and the scene at lidls car park in hawkinge was a crowded one! 100 or more kids turned up to run for the event, there was a DJ and some witty presenting from Wilbert the organiser of the event, along with Linford and Darren. So many epic races, and childrens’ faces of the struggle as they crossed the finishing line…
Check out the photos and videos below as we upload them!
Hi,
This is the Sony media crew reporting from Leeds! We have had a good day today! We have taken loads of footage. We’ve got lots of videos and photos of todays event. Some people never liked the camera but thats ok because the sunny weather kept us going!! Haha!!
Also there was some people who was not interested and some of the Leeds people were friendly. The talent show was good. We really enjoyed today!
Hey everyone! We enjoyed today, we felt like we really got something out of the day, and it was a great turnout, and everyone enjoyed themselves. Overall, we thought it was an enjoyable day! You can check out our photos and video interviews below…
We travelled from Liverpool to London on the Thursday and stayed over night in a hotel. Then at half 9 Friday morning everybody from street athletics met up in St Pancras where I started my interviews about how and why the young people (who are last year’s winners) were going to Paris, and how they found out about Street Athletics.
When we arrived at Paris we had a chat with young athletes in the “La salons du relais gare Paris est” hotel. After this we took off to our hotel and checked in then headed to Stade de France to watch the athletics. It was great because me and Jordan went to watch Darren Campbell get interviewed on BBC Five Live radio and went sort of backstage if you like, then we went on a tour around France after the athletics on the tour we stopped at the Eiffel Tower which was all lit up at midnight we all had 10 minutes to take photos and do what ever we liked. We then got back on the coach went for a late MacDonald’s, ate that went to bed about 2 o clock and never got up for breakfast.
LUKE DUMBELL and JORDAN CAIN
(Who travelled with the 2007 Street Athletics winners all the way to Paris to watch the Gaz de France Saint Denis Athletics- well done especially to Luke- who combated his nerves to get some great interviews- they will be up asap).
The day has been great fun! It’s been a fun experience for all. We went round and got some brilliant pictures! We got to meet some awesome people and I’m sure they were honoured to meet us. Along with the tunes going on in the background the crowd were as enthusiastic as ever, support friends and family! We met some confident people and hopefully some talent of the future, along with Darren Campbell and Linford Christie! On a technical side, the videos and interviews didn’t quite go to plan. A technical ‘error’ stopped us from getting interviews as we had no sound! The microphone was awful! Bobby did try to buy one on the way, but they were all sold out! What a complete joke! However we got to interview some interesting people, only you guys don’t get to see them!! But anyways must mooch now, I hope everyone’s had as much fun as we have!
Shane and Chris!
Some footage of the races- the mic packed in during the last one- sos!
Street Athletics at Kensington today has been soo fun. A great-turn out resulted in great performances and spectacular talents were performed on stage with the Kombat Breakers.
Having competed myself i now understand why the atmosphere is pumped with adrenalinen which i can now say doesn’t calm down the competitors, not expecting to participate meant that i was kitted out in my beautiful NEW salt and pepper shoes, baggy, loose trousers and hair all over the place. LOL how hilarious. Even though my fate was against me today i managed to come 2nd in the heats which means i am in the final.
Finals did not go to plan and i ended up fourth. A word of advice to all competitors…. it’s not over until you cross that finish line. Pipped to the finals… Not happy but learnt a very important lesson, its not good coming fourth! Oh well, never mind, i’ll get over it and good luck to all the lucky ones who’s made it to the South Bank.
We hope to see lots of people at the Lillian Ballis event which we shall be covering next but until then, check out the interviews below if you want to see Darren Campbell dancing and Linford Christie telling his best jokes, as well as all those who made it down for the races and dance lessons at Freston Road.
Once again, thanks to all who gave their time for interviews and photos, feel free to leave us a message on the comment board. See you soon.
The day started off really badly but we managed to pull things together, everyone had a great time and by the end of the day everyone pretty much left with smiles on their faces. The performances were all good and we got glimpses of the different types of new talent that will one day be sweeping our nation, all in all i would say the day was a blast as most young participants put it, we had parents down to support and friends to do all the heavy cheering. It was a great day especially considering the fact that it didn’t rain so i guess the heavens were on our side, well congrats to all the winners and everyone that took part, everyone was a winner. Stay tuned for more info from the Haringey Squad!
Hello, Luke and Darren here writing from Norwich… we started heading down at 11 ‘o’ clock from Liverpool, had a nightmare on the motorway (firstly there was a crash and we were in a big traffic queue, secondly we hit even more traffic which had nothing to do with the crash) ans we arrived around 5pm which means we were late. Luckily enough when we got there Darren and Linford weren’t there because their flight got delayed!
We enjoyed the day a lot, and had extremely good fun.
The event went really well today there was lots of cheering. We had a very vibrant crowd of people supporting the runners and dancers.
Interviewing people was really interesting- especially meeting Linford and Darren.
I have learnt that to be a good digital journalist you need to plan beforehand. If I could give a tip to the next journalist it would be to enjoy yourself and plan ahead.
The sutton event was held on durand close and there was an a amazing turnout, we both got to interview people and film, we interviewed participants, Linford Christie, Darren Campbell and also an olympic hurdler who lived locally and decided to come and watch the event, there was also some street dancers who were much loved by the people who had turned up on the day, they also held a talent show were members of the public were able to show of there talents. We took many photos and as usual some people were camera shy, all in all it was a good day and we both enjoyed ourselfs.
