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Sportshour: The Man Behind the Ice Bucket Challenge

The Man Behind the Ice Bucket Challenge

BBC World Service - Sportshour, The Man Behind the Ice Bucket Challenge

Peter Frates: Ex baseballer, ALS sufferer and inspiration behind the ice bucket challenge

Peter Frates: Ex baseball player, ALS sufferer and the inspiration behind the ice bucket challenge

We meet Pete Frates the inspiration behind the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. The former baseball player and ALS sufferer might have lost his voice through the disease, but his message is being received loud and clear thanks to his ice bucket challenge going viral. His mother Nancy tells us about her son, his baseball career, his battle against ALS and how the ice bucket challenge began.

Mamady’s Macaroons: From crosses to croissants, passing to pastry, midfield to mille-feuille…
What to do once you've retired as a professional footballer? Maybe head into coaching or management? Perhaps become a TV pundit? Or you could open a French patisserie. We’ve been nibbling on the tasty macaroons of former Mali international midfielder Mamady Sidibe just a month after his new patisserie opened.

Extremist: Jacob Zurl
Imagine listening to the same song over and over and over, for 40 hours!! That’s exactly what Austrian extreme cyclist Jacob Zurl does. He tells us what that song was and how that song helped him on his latest feet, the fastest assent on a bike of the Himalaya's and their notoriously dangerous roads.

Horsing around
The World Equestrian Games end at the weekend; we explore the many faceted disciplines from horseball to gymnastics. 

Body Image
How the rise in popularity of women taking up weightlifting is challenging the traditional views of female body image in South East Asia.

Sporting Witness… looks back at the D'Oliveira affair in the summer of 1968 - when South African born Basil D'Oliveira found himself at the centre of a political storm that ultimately led to South Africa's 25 year sporting isolation.

(Photo: Julie Frates, wife of Peter Frates, dumps a bucket of ice water on her husband, former Boston College baseball captain who has ALS and is behind the ice bucket challenge that has gone viral. CREDIT: Barry Chin/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

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