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Well, we'll be coming back the moment there's
any action. And now over to the swimming.
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And you join us here at the Bundesabsurd pool
just in time to see the start
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of the 200 meters freestyle for non-swimmers.
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Watch for the tough Australian champion
Ron Barnett in the second lane.
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Well, we'll be bringing you back here the
moment they start fishing the corpses out.
:11:30
But now over to Hans Clegg for the start
of the marathon for incontinents.
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Well, we've got an enormous entry for this event:
44 competitors from 29 different countries,
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all of them with the most superbly weak bladders.
Not a tight sphincter in sight.
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Ready to embark, nevertheless, on the world's
longest race and they're just aching to go!
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On your marks! Get set!
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And they're off! They're off!
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Well, back at the 1500 meters and the starter
is putting up a magnificent show!
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We've had volleys, rapid bursts, scattered
random fire, fusillades firing,
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well and still he can't get the buggers moving.
It's enough to make you chew your own foot off!
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And now the high jump! Katerina
Ovelenskij for the Soviet Union.
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But what a jump! What a jump!
That's got to be a record!
:12:20
And here we are at the 3000 meter steeplechase
for people who think they're chickens!
:12:24
There's Samuelsson of the United States,
and over there is Klaus of East Germany!
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He's been a Rhode Island Red now for
the last three olympics.
:12:30
There's the referee trying to get them going,
but he's frightned them.
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There's the leader, Abe Seagull of Canada
who went off, got a very good start,
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then settled down there on the water
jump, and has now gone broody.
:12:38
Now we are back with the marathon for
incontinents once again.
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There's Polinski of Poland in the lead,
and-and now Brewer of Australia is taking over!
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There's Laparche of France. Brewer has
overtaken him, but he's going to spend a penny.
:12:49
There goes Brewer to spend a penny.
And there goes König of Austria.
:12:51
And so now it's Alvarez of Cuba, followed
by the plucky Norwegian, Bors.
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They're in and out like yo-yos, these boys.
And there's MacNaughton -
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MacNaughton the Scottish lad but he can't hold it.