Ben Carter
speaker
694 appearances
29 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2013
last heard Aug 2018
Ben Carter’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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In fact, the average amount of money visitors to France spend lags way behind every other country in the top ten most visited chart, bar Russia.
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And by the way, all those numbers are dwarfed by visitors to Macau, the Far East gambling centre, where they each spend a staggering $3,200.
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Let's start with the number of requests made by both countries since the treaty came into force in 2004.
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The United States has made 130 requests to the UK.
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The UK's made 54.
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And of course it is.
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Its population is about five times the size of the UK's.
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So proportionally speaking, the UK has been getting more people returned to face justice than the US has.
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For example, the year before the new system came into place, there were just over 100 extradition requests made to the UK, while the UK itself made just fewer than 100 requests to other countries.
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There wasn't a big difference.
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And some of the arrest warrants it issues have attracted criticism.
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Late last year, a Polish man spent two months in a prison in London because the Polish authorities had issued a warrant demanding he serve the remainder of a 12-month prison sentence served in Poland in 2005 for being drunk on a bike.
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It is.
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Since cycling got serious about doping and introduced a new drug testing regime called the biological passport in 2008, the performances produced by men like Armstrong and Pantani on the tour's mountain stages have never been matched.
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A sports scientist at the University of Cape Town, Ross Tucker, has been analysing performances since the new rules came in.
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After the axe to our demand stage, which Froome won in a blistering time, some critics suggested Froome's performance was almost mutant.
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But Dr Tucker says not so fast.
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People wanted Froome's team, Sky, to release all their performance data.
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They particularly wanted to know how much power Froome was outputting on those climbs.
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But Sky refused because they thought the information might help opposing teams.
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