The World’s First Free Running Contest – answers
The World’s First Free-running Contest – answers
1 a) The commercial interest London has shown in it, and also b) the film work that has been done on it in London.
Vocab: to date = up until now
2 Jump London and Jump Britain
3 They launched the sport worldwide.
4 18.
5 As a celebration of movement.
6 You will see ‘the best on offer‘.
7 ‘doing our thing‘.
8 24 hours a day, 7 days a week -(’24/7′)
9 a) Young people are putting a lot of time into practising it, b) they want to be good enough to become professional – so the amount of time they devote to the sport and their commitment to it will mean c) we will see a ‘new level of skill emerging‘ ‘ all the time’. (It’s going to be great!)
10 Young people are ‘training their hearts out‘.
Note: If you add ‘out‘ to some verbs it means you really apply yourself to it.
eg She’s singing her heart out = she is putting her all into singing / putting her heart and soul into her singing
11 A lot of prestige.
12 He / She will win something, but what it is is being kept quiet / a surprise until after the event.
13 For many it will be a fresh experience to be in front of 1) 2000 people and 2) a massive TV crew, 3) lights, and 4) some imposing obstacles
14 Through YouTube / from YouTube videos
15 ‘It will be worth its weight in gold.’
To be worth your / its weight in gold – to be very valuable, useful or helpful