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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As he points out, we are in something of a golden age of marathon runners.
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At 41, the legendary Ethiopian Haile Gebrselassie is in the dying embers of his career.
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And then at 30 years old, the ambassador for the new generation is this year's record breaker, Denis Kimeto.
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But there are a lot of marathons staged across the world, and athletes can't run them all.
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So race organisers have to compete to attract the best runners to run their race.
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Like most marathons, Berlin doesn't have an endless pot of gold to pay appearance fees.
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The only marathon that does is London.
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But Ross Tucker thinks if you're a race organiser, less can be more.
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The sub two hour marathon is really the four minute mile of our day.
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As there was before Roger Bannister broke that record in 1954, there's been a big debate about whether or not it's possible to run a marathon in less than two hours.
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Ross Tucker says even assembling the best fields on a regular basis doesn't mean the magic two hour barrier will be broken anytime soon.
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What have you found, Ben?
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Well, Tim, we can start by blowing up this claim that rickets is becoming more apparent.
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A study of Victorian diseases by the Health and Social Care Information Centre shows that the number of people being diagnosed in hospital with rickets has gone down by a third in the last couple of years.
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So why was it reported as having gone up?
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Well, John Middleton, Vice President of the Faculty of Public Health, was behind the rickets quote.
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He told me that he was talking anecdotally and conceded that the data painted a different picture.
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Yes, the number of recorded hospital admissions with malnutrition as a primary or secondary diagnosis has gone up from just under 4,000 in 2009-10 to nearly 7,000 in the year ending April this year.
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Now only a few hundred of these are primary diagnoses.
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Where someone is admitted to hospital and malnutrition is the main reason for that.
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