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EPISODE · Jun 24, 2017 · 29 MIN

The Power of Two

from Not by the Playbook · host BBC World Service

The Power of Two In 2014, US Olympian Alysia Montaño ran at the US Track and Field championships whilst eight months pregnant. The five-time national champion wanted to compete seven weeks before she was due to give birth to her first child. On Thursday, she ran at the same event four months pregnant with her second child. Does she feel her message “exercising during pregnancy is actually much better for the mom and the baby. 1,850km from the tee to hole. Adam Rolston and Ron Rutland have set themselves a challenge, to play golf across Mongolia. They’re teeing off in the west of the country and ending their round in the capital Ulaanbaatar. It will take the pair 82 days to play 1,850km on a course that has a par of 14,000. Adam, from Northern Ireland will be playing golf, but spare a thought for Ron; he will be pulling a cart with all his and Adam’s gear across the country. Aside from hitting golf balls, they will have to scavenge for food. SpiderwomanMargo Hayes is 19 years old and a record breaker. She became the first female to climb La Rambla, a mountain face in Spain that is one of the world’s most challenging. Margo believes her success will encourage other female climbers to try harder classified routes. The Javelin and the ShoemakerAlphanso Cunningham is Jamaica’s most successful Paralympian in the modern era. After golds in Athens in 2004 and at London 2012 in his seated throws, he’s now set himself a new challenge. Alphanso wants to take up fencing, and start wheelchair racing too. A maker of adapted shoes at the island’s version of Stoke Mandeville, he’s seen Jamaican Para Sport evolve over the last 15 years and embraces his Bolt-style role in supporting its future growth.Head over HeelsJune 24th is International Handstand Day. We’ve got various members of BBC Sport to see if they perform a handstand. Some of them are brilliant, others are awful. We speak to Alvin Tam, who founded Handstand Day. Why did he want to turn the world upside down? And, with an expert on the programme, what better time to learn how we’re supposed perform a handstand.

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