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test and she also recommended that he engage

4:02

in more interviews with the press. We

4:05

do now know that President Biden will be

4:07

sitting down with ABC's George Stephanopoulos for a

4:09

sit-down interview. Now that'll be going out on

4:11

the 5th of July and I

4:14

think it's fair to say that in light of what

4:16

we saw on the debate stage this will be very

4:18

closely watched by both those

4:20

concerned Democratic voters and of course

4:22

the Trump campaign as well. And

4:25

Congressman Lloyd Duggett has gone further saying

4:27

that Mr Biden should pull out of

4:29

the race. How likely is that?

4:32

I think it is pretty unlikely at

4:35

this stage based on what President Biden

4:37

himself has said. He's vowed to stay

4:39

in the race. The White House has

4:41

been defending him today with heard from

4:44

spokesperson Celine Jean-Pierre and she

4:46

was saying let's turn the page, let's look

4:48

at what the President has achieved. She says

4:50

that he is committed but at the same

4:52

time she said a cognitive test wasn't

4:54

necessary. She said it was a fair

4:57

question but it wasn't necessary and she

4:59

said ultimately President Biden is going

5:01

to be out. He's going to be out

5:03

on the campaign trail. The public then will

5:05

have the chance to judge for themselves. The

5:07

issue is though I think that some voters

5:09

are saying that they've already had that chance

5:11

to judge for themselves. That was the debate

5:13

stage and essentially they were

5:15

concerned by what they saw but President

5:17

Biden, his wife Jill Biden and the

5:19

White House saying that he will remain

5:22

in the race. And just finally in

5:24

other developments Donald Trump's sentencing for falsifying

5:26

business records has been delayed. What can

5:28

you tell us? Yeah that's right. That's

5:30

with regards to his New York hush

5:32

money trial. The sentencing was meant to

5:34

be on the 11th of July. It

5:36

won't take place now until the 18th

5:38

of September. Now this

5:40

is all in relation to the Supreme

5:43

Court's ruling on presidential immunity. So lawyers

5:45

for the former president asked

5:47

to have the chance to argue that he

5:49

shouldn't have been prosecuted given that some of

5:51

the evidence they say is from his time

5:53

in office. So instead it will be delayed.

5:56

Politically this could be a boost for him

5:58

at a time when President Biden is. is

6:00

having a harder time in the presidential campaign.

6:02

That was Helena Humphrey. Now,

6:05

as we record this podcast,

6:07

the devastating category five storm

6:09

hurricane Beryl continues to move

6:12

northwest towards Jamaica. Aerial

6:14

pictures from the island of Carriacou

6:16

show severely damaged houses, mangled cars,

6:19

and downed power lines. It was

6:21

a similar picture in Union Island,

6:23

part of St. Vincent and the

6:25

Grenadines. A number of deaths have

6:27

been reported. With winds of more than

6:30

200 kilometers an hour, Beryl

6:32

is expected to hit Jamaica on

6:34

Wednesday. Katrina Perry heard more from

6:37

the CBS News correspondent Tom Hanson,

6:39

who's in Jamaica. This

6:41

has really been a critical day where

6:44

so many people have started to truly

6:46

prepare for this storm. It's starting

6:48

to sink in. We're at the

6:51

Montego Bay Airport here, where we

6:53

have seen a steady stream of

6:55

people, both Americans and from other

6:57

countries around the world, really trying

6:59

their best to get out before

7:01

this potentially catastrophic storm comes through

7:03

the area. There are airlines here

7:05

that have added extra flights, including

7:07

American, including NetBlue. Other airlines have

7:09

offered waivers to compensate people for

7:11

flights that have been canceled. But

7:13

really, it's been a mad dash

7:15

here at the airport for people

7:17

to try to get out. We

7:19

spoke to one couple who said

7:21

they cut their trip short. They

7:23

were supposed to leave on Friday.

7:26

They're now leaving tonight. And they

7:28

said they wanted to play it

7:30

safe and not be sorry for

7:32

having to stick around and put

7:34

themselves in a potentially risky situation.

7:36

And let's talk about the risky

7:38

situation here because the forecast is

7:40

ominous and it is pins and

7:42

needles here in Jamaica. So we're

7:44

talking about some significant storm surge

7:46

and some very dangerous winds around

7:48

150 miles per hour right now

7:50

as the barrels through Jamaica. So

7:52

certainly a tense situation here. There's

7:54

a lot of anxiety as

7:57

we lead into the night hours.

8:00

to the morning, Katrina. And Tom,

8:02

we know Jamaica is an island of

8:04

haves and have-nots. What are

8:06

preparations like there? How well are

8:08

people, are the authorities ready for

8:10

this? Yeah, well, you know, we

8:13

actually visited a grocery store today

8:15

where there was a line snaking

8:17

all the way through the grocery store

8:20

from aisle to aisle, people trying to

8:22

grab whatever they can in order to

8:24

prepare. And mainly, one of the critical

8:27

resources is bottled water because, as we

8:29

know, when these hurricanes strike, the first

8:31

thing to go so many times

8:33

is clean water. It shuts down the

8:36

water system. So that is definitely something

8:38

that people are taking very seriously. As

8:40

far as haves and have-nots, yeah, there's

8:43

a huge income gap. There's a huge

8:45

quality of life gap in this

8:47

country. And so, of course, the people

8:49

who can't afford to stay in a

8:52

structure that will withstand this dangerous storm,

8:54

they're going to be hit the hardest.

8:56

And certainly, aid groups are already anticipating

8:59

jumping into action to help those

9:01

people most in need, Katrina. That

9:03

was CBS News correspondent Tom Hanson

9:05

in Jamaica talking to Katrina Perry.

9:09

More than 210 candidates have withdrawn

9:11

from the second round of the

9:13

French parliamentary elections in an effort

9:15

to prevent a far-right victory. It

9:18

was anticipated that politicians from the centre

9:20

and left would step aside to ensure

9:22

that the vote against the far-right national

9:25

rally will not be split. Hugh

9:27

Schofield has been following events in Paris. Efforts

9:30

to thwart the national rally's momentum have

9:33

borne fruit, with a large number of

9:35

seats in which other candidates have stood

9:37

aside in order to focus the anti-far-right

9:39

vote. With declarations now closed, it's confirmed

9:42

that in 218 constituencies, a third contender

9:46

from the centre or left has

9:48

pulled out. Now there remain only

9:51

91 three-way races in the election out

9:53

of originally just over 300. What

9:56

it means is that the chances of the RN

9:58

reaching the key number of Without

16:00

controlled procedures were not clear, but I

16:02

saw some of these videos taken by

16:04

some local people just

16:07

after this incident happened where in the

16:09

open ground there were thousands and thousands

16:11

of people. It's not the first such

16:13

disaster at religious gatherings in India though,

16:15

is it? We have been having this

16:17

kind of what you call stampede or

16:19

crush for a number of years. There

16:21

was one incident in 2022 in a

16:24

famous Hindu temple in northern India and

16:26

then another religious festival in central India

16:28

in 2016. So

16:30

the government has been trying to put

16:32

some crowd control mechanism, but then each

16:35

state is different. The state authorities have

16:37

their own police force in trying to

16:39

do the crowd control. So

16:42

how far this has worked, that is

16:44

a big question, but there will be

16:46

many questions for the authorities why

16:48

they were not able to prevent it. Amburasan

16:51

at Irrajan in India. There

16:54

have been calls in China for

16:56

greater restrictions on the sale of

16:58

hyper realistic silicon face masks following

17:00

a string of crimes committed by

17:03

people wearing them. Here's Celia Hatton.

17:06

In March a young man in

17:08

Shanghai disguised himself by wearing a

17:10

lifelike mask that made him look

17:12

decades older. He then stole $10,000 worth

17:16

of valuables from an apartment block. When

17:19

police arrested him a day later using

17:21

evidence left at the crime scene, they

17:23

were stunned to learn he wasn't an

17:25

elderly man. Chinese state

17:28

media say the authorities are now

17:30

exploring how to limit sales of

17:32

hyper realistic masks. Originally

17:35

created for use on film

17:37

productions, customers can engineer a

17:39

perfect fit over their features

17:41

by sending online mask makers a

17:44

3D scan of their heads, allowing

17:46

them to fool security cameras and

17:49

even facial recognition scanners that are

17:51

ubiquitous in China. Celia

17:53

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week's UN-led meetings in Qatar were the

19:34

first to include the Taliban since

19:37

they seized power in Afghanistan almost

19:39

three years ago. And

19:41

at the end of the talks,

19:43

although there were no breakthroughs or

19:45

announcements, diplomats have described them as

19:47

productive. But there were

19:49

no women or other civil society

19:51

groups present. The Taliban had insisted

19:53

that they be excluded. Afghan

19:56

women and girls live in the

19:58

country under comprehensive restrictions. They

20:01

are not able to attend secondary

20:03

school, visit parks or gyms and

20:05

hold certain jobs. And agreeing

20:07

to shut them out of these

20:09

talks caused a lot of controversy,

20:11

as our correspondent Caroline Davis in

20:13

Doha explained. So we

20:16

heard from groups like Human Rights Watch

20:18

and Amnesty International, but also from women's

20:20

rights activists in particular as well, being

20:22

critical of the fact that these meetings

20:25

were going ahead under the conditions that

20:27

the Taliban authorities wanted. They didn't want

20:29

to be in the room with other

20:31

people from civil society. They

20:33

wanted to be the only people representing

20:35

Afghanistan. On this occasion, that was

20:37

something that the UN did agree to, because there

20:39

were no civil society activists in the room. That

20:42

meant, of course, that there were no women from

20:44

Afghanistan. And that's what led to criticism people talking

20:46

about the fact that this could set a dangerous

20:48

precedent. Now, meanwhile, you have

20:50

been speaking to a Taliban spokesman, haven't you?

20:53

What did he have to say? Yes,

20:55

Zabula Mujahid is the Taliban spokesperson who

20:58

is also leading the delegation. And I

21:00

spoke to him yesterday after these talks

21:02

had finished. One thing he was completely

21:05

adamant on was about women's rights. Now,

21:07

of course, this has been brought up

21:09

even though it wasn't officially on the

21:12

agenda. We've been told that in these

21:14

closed door meetings, that lots of the

21:16

countries continue to bring up women's rights

21:19

and women's roles in Afghanistan. He

21:21

was very clear that this is an

21:23

internal issue in his words. This is

21:25

something that they will not talk to

21:27

the international community about. They don't want

21:29

them to come in. And in their

21:31

view, interfere in that they say this

21:34

is something that they are dealing with

21:36

on their own. I then pointed out

21:38

that the Taliban authorities have essentially been

21:40

in control of Afghanistan since August 2021,

21:42

nearly three years. So

21:45

if it is an internal issue, why has that not been

21:47

solved? And this was the answer he gave me. There

21:50

are a lot of issues that still have to be

21:52

resolved and we're working on it. This

21:58

issue is one of them. again

22:00

emphasizing that we will find a

22:02

solution for it inside Afghanistan. The

22:05

Islamic Emirate says that this issue is

22:07

waiting to be dealt with. We're not

22:09

ignoring it. We're finding a solution for

22:11

it based on Sharia law. So

22:14

Carrie, what did these talks actually

22:16

achieve? Well, even from

22:18

the outset, we were told we're not

22:21

expecting some massive breakthrough or big solutions

22:23

or big announcements, and we didn't get

22:25

those things. Everybody we spoke

22:27

to, the words that kept on coming up

22:29

were, this is a process. That was from

22:32

the Taliban authority side. That's what we heard

22:34

from all the diplomats. This is about doing

22:36

things step by step, understanding everybody's on the

22:38

same page, and then gradually moving forward. And

22:40

at the moment, we don't know exactly what

22:43

step forward will happen next. The main topics

22:45

of discussion at these particular meetings were firstly

22:47

on counter narcotics and on the

22:49

economy here, both topics that the Taliban

22:52

authorities wanted to talk about, so not

22:54

quite so thorny as an issue as

22:56

women's rights. The UN

22:58

have also been very clear that

23:01

these talks are not about official

23:03

recognition of the Taliban

23:05

authorities as being the government in

23:07

Afghanistan. At the moment, no

23:09

country around the world has officially recognized

23:12

the Taliban authorities as being Afghanistan's government.

23:14

However, there are diplomats who say, well,

23:16

this is kind of real politic. If

23:18

you want to do something that actually

23:20

helps Afghanistan, you have to get a

23:22

conversation going with the people who are

23:25

currently ruling the country. The Taliban aren't

23:27

going anywhere at the moment. And so

23:29

in order to be able to do

23:31

something that might benefit the Afghan people,

23:33

those conversations should happen.

23:36

Diplomats here seem to think it's gone fairly well.

23:39

Let's see where it goes to you next. Caroline

23:41

Davis in Doha. To

23:44

Kenya next. On Tuesday, activists

23:46

in the capital Nairobi placed

23:48

empty coffins in front of

23:50

riot police to draw attention

23:52

to excessive use of force

23:54

as protests continue across the

23:56

country. Rights groups say 39 people

23:58

have been killed. over

24:00

the past two weeks. Those protesting

24:02

want to see change from the

24:04

country's president William Rutter. I'm

24:07

protesting for my kids, Jan Alpha. I

24:09

grew up fearing presidents, the people that

24:11

my vote hires and that my voice

24:13

can fire and now Rutter should know

24:15

that we are firing him and if

24:17

he's willing to spill our blood, we're

24:19

willing to stand up to him. He's

24:21

a big bully. Currently I'm unemployed but

24:24

with the taxes that which are happening that are

24:26

being imposed on me, I have no

24:29

work so I can't pay for them and yet I'm being asked

24:31

to pay. So why not

24:33

just reduce his own salaries, reduce

24:35

the MP salaries to help the

24:38

Kenyan people. To prevent

24:40

people gathering for further anti-government

24:42

demonstrations, police fired tear gas

24:44

and used water cannon. Barbara

24:47

Plettasher is in Nairobi. There

24:49

are running street battles between protesters and police

24:51

here in the centre of Nairobi. Also the

24:54

main road to the city has been blocked

24:56

and there are protests in other parts of

24:58

the country as well in the port city

25:00

of Mombasa and in the western parts of

25:03

Kenya. The youth movement

25:05

that triggered all of this is united

25:07

in its anger against the president. They

25:09

say he hasn't shown remorse for the

25:11

people who were killed and

25:13

he hasn't taken accountability and responsibility

25:15

and so that has made them

25:17

very angry. Many

25:19

of them also believe that this is

25:22

not over yet. They have won their

25:24

battle against the tax bill

25:26

which the president was forced to withdraw. But

25:28

they haven't won the war against what they

25:30

see as corruption and excessive spending by political

25:32

elites. But they are not united in a

25:34

strategy for moving forward. For example, there was

25:37

a call to come back to the streets

25:39

today. Some came back. Some did

25:41

not. This is a movement without a formal

25:43

leadership. They are proud of that. They see

25:45

it as their strength. But it also means

25:47

it's more difficult for them to

25:50

organise a strategy for going forward

25:52

with how to achieve what they want to

25:54

achieve. Barbara Plattasher in

25:56

Kenya to Nigeria next.

26:00

Living there is making medicines

26:02

unaffordable for many. Some

26:04

asthma inhalers have doubled or even

26:06

tripled in price since last year.

26:09

As a result, many people are

26:11

struggling to afford them, especially in

26:13

vulnerable communities. Low enrollment in

26:16

health insurance is forcing many to pay

26:18

out of their own pockets. Mako

26:21

Ochi Okafo reports from Lagos.

26:25

Phoebe, a single mother and school teacher in

26:28

Lagos, has been living with asthma since she

26:30

was 15. Among

26:37

other daily essentials, Nigeria's high inflation

26:39

and currency depreciation are falling a

26:41

huge rise in the cost of

26:44

drugs. Every day, Phoebe

26:46

is worried. She recalls a recent

26:48

asthma attack when she was struggling

26:50

to breathe without her inhaler. When

26:52

I was sleeping from bed, I started

26:55

breathing so very high, like, I was

26:57

breathing so much. I was breathing for

26:59

like two hours. I didn't want to

27:01

come and see I was still there

27:04

fighting for my life. In

27:06

Nigeria, some inhalers have doubled or tripled

27:08

in price since the last quarter of

27:10

2023. If they're paying without $25,000, the

27:13

first thing that comes

27:15

to my mind is money for inhaler because

27:17

I can't survive without it. I can't do

27:21

without my inhaler. So I need to

27:23

go first to the pharmacy, get my

27:26

inhaler before I'll be relaxed, start calculating

27:28

other expenses. And there is no way

27:30

that money will be enough. Phoebe now

27:32

takes on extra jobs like catering just

27:34

to make ends meet. She's struggling to

27:37

afford her usual inhaler and is suffering

27:39

more frequent asthma attacks. When I was

27:41

growing up, it was ventiline I was

27:43

using. All of a sudden, ventiline is

27:45

now here. Even

27:47

if I'm not cooking that much, it's very,

27:50

very stressful for me. I'm not triggered.

27:52

I also still take

27:54

the risk because when we

27:57

need this money... Nigeria

28:00

relies heavily on imported medicines and

28:02

the government has promised to reduce

28:04

drug costs through local production. But

28:06

it's unclear when this will happen.

28:11

Health activists like Kinsley Thompson are starting

28:13

to campaign for the government to step

28:15

in and make inhalers free. The

28:17

cost of living in prison in

28:20

Nigeria is very tough. In

28:25

fact, not just the poor, the asymptomatic patients

28:27

can no longer breathe, the poor can't no

28:30

longer breathe anymore. That is why I am

28:32

campaigning for making inhaler free. Because

28:35

people shouldn't be paying to breathe. Breathing

28:38

is free. Although the country's public

28:40

health insurance does offer affordable asthma

28:42

care, Dr. Aking Kumi, a

28:44

lawyer from Boston Health Limited, a

28:46

health insurance firm in Lagos, says

28:49

lack of confidence in the scheme

28:51

means enrollment is low. People

28:53

who have health insurance currently in Nigeria is 10%

28:55

or less. What's

28:58

important is trust, the issue of trust. The

29:01

government, especially in this part of the world,

29:03

have filled people over and over again so

29:05

it becomes very difficult for them to actually

29:07

trust whatever the government is bringing forward. Nigeria's

29:12

health minister says the government wants

29:14

to expand insurance coverage. But

29:17

it will need to win over people like Phoebe.

29:21

That report from Makawachi Okafo

29:23

in Lagos. Scientists

29:26

have discovered that ants sometimes bite

29:28

off each other's limbs in order

29:31

to save them from fatal infections.

29:34

The process has a high survival rate.

29:36

Here's Paul Moss. The site

29:38

came as quite a shock to the German

29:40

researchers who first observed it. Ants

29:43

offering up their injured limb to another

29:45

ant who proceeded to bite it off.

29:48

The insect surgeon then passed their

29:50

patient on to a third ant

29:52

who treated the wound with a

29:54

fluid which seems to have some

29:56

kind of anti-infection effect. These leg

29:58

biters were selective. injury was

30:00

low on the ant's leg, they would

30:02

just treat the wound with the fluid.

30:05

One scientist described this as the most

30:07

efficient medical system in the entire animal

30:09

kingdom. Paul Moss. Now

30:12

as we heard in the earlier podcast, the

30:15

British tennis star and two times

30:17

Wimbledon tennis champion Andy Murray has

30:19

pulled out of this year's men's

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singles tournament because of continuing medical

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problems with his back. The

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37-year-old has said that this would be

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his last year entering the contest, although

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he still plans to make his farewell

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by playing in the men's doubles, teaming

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up with his brother Jamie. And

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with Wimbledon in full swing at the moment,

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there will be a great deal of focus

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on those who win. But

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what about those who don't? Those

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who spend their lives slogging away

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in the lower rankings, hoping for

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a breakthrough. Conon Island was

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one of those. At one point he

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was Ireland's number one player, but his

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highest international ranking was 129th in the

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world. And that is

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a very lonely place to be as

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he writes in his book The Racket,

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on tour with tennis's golden generation and

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the other 99%. Sarah

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Montague asked him just how lonely it is

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in the tennis circuit if you have a

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low ranking. It's a

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tough existence and I was born

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in 1981 the same year as Roger

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Federer and Serena Williams but didn't rack

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up 20 plus slams and didn't have

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the entourage that they had. And

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the thing about tennis is when you're outside the top 100

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in the world, the prize money

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kind of falls off the cliff. So I

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was traveling either on my own. Occasionally I'd

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bring a coach with me, but

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it's a very much a budget

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existence. You're going to far flung

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places for very little prize

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money. And obviously I go into that in

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depth in the book. But also it's a

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funny book, there's humor in it and sort

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of some laughter in the dark, I suppose.

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Given the prize money that you reference in the

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book, how do you... How do you keep it

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going? Well, I was lucky enough. I was on

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a tennis scholarship in the States. And when I

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finished there, I had a private sponsor. But

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as I talk about in the book, it felt a

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little less like sponsorship and more like charity. I

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sort of said, listen, will I put your part

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of your business on

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my sleeve or anything? He's like, no, don't

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worry about it. It's not going to be

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anybody watching you anyway. So he was sort

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of a tennis fan and was happy to

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help out. And then of course, the financial

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crisis came in 2009. And it was very

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hard to get sponsorship. And I got to

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a ranking where I was just

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about able to let it wash its

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own face as opposed to the ranking I was at in sort of 150

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in the world, but no more than that.

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But Connor, your description of what it's like, just

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given the nature of tennis that you're on your

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own, you're not necessarily with somebody else, you're spending

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much of your life in hotel rooms, not particularly

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nice ones, you're going to the court on your

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own, you're sort of begging somebody to practice with

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you. One can't help thinking why

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do you look back and think I should have

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packed it in much sooner? Well, I have this

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carrot of Wimbledon and you know, it's all going

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to be unfurled now the next two weeks. And

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we all get very excited about it. And I

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was like, any anybody watching and I

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was a dreamer. And there was

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a chance for me to play in Wimbledon and

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the US Open. And luckily, I got there and

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that sort of justified, I suppose, the struggle. And

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I got there at 29. So it was a

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long time coming. But I'm

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glad I stuck at it. And I even had

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a book in me at the end of it

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all that day that they're challenging it was. The

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tennis player and writer, Conan Ireland. And

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