On tonights show, we take a look back at the weekend's football and speak with Kit Windsor of the Ace of Blades rowing team, one week after completing the World's Toughest Rowing challenge across the Atlantic.
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00:00 Hello and welcome along to Invicta Sport. It's the only show on your TV dedicated to
00:27 wrapping up all of Kent's sporting action. I'm Bartholomew Hall and here is what to expect
00:31 on this Monday 5th January.
00:36 Angels ascend! Tunbridge hold off Chippenham in the National South.
00:42 Fast and Fit athletes share their fitness regimes as students at the University of Kent.
00:48 And Return from the Seas, former Sittingbourne schoolgirl completes world's toughest rowing
00:52 challenge.
00:53 But we start today with some shocking news from the world of horse racing. 25-year-old
01:00 Keegan Kirkby was killed after being thrown from his horse in the final event of the day
01:04 at Charing on Sunday. An air ambulance landed at the site and paramedics joined the on-site
01:10 medical team as they fought to save the young jockey's life. A statement from Kent Police
01:14 reads that despite the additional support, Keegan couldn't be saved. He worked at the
01:19 stables of champion trainer Paul Nicholls, who described him as one of their best hard-working
01:23 lads. A report is now being prepared for the coroner.
01:28 Widely appreciated football manager Neil Warnock has found his way back into management at
01:33 Scottish Premier's hipside Aberdeen, with former Gillingham boss Ronnie Jepson stepping
01:37 up as his assistant manager. After holding the post of Gilles' manager from 2005 to 2007,
01:44 Jepson has found himself as Warnock's assistant several times in recent years as the pair
01:47 worked together at Cardiff City and Middlesbrough. Aberdeen currently sits eighth in the Scottish
01:53 Premiership. Their first game in charge together is tomorrow night against Rangers at Abrox.
01:59 Two half-centuries from Kent, Zach Crawley weren't good enough for England in their second
02:03 Test defeat in India. England's opener top-scored in both of England's innings, but they were
02:09 ultimately beaten by 106 runs. After setting the target of 399 for victory on Monday, Crawley
02:15 helped Ben Stokes' side hope of another unlikely run chase with 73 before he was trapped LBW
02:22 by Kuldeep Yadav. England were eventually dismissed for 292 all-outs.
02:27 With the five-game series now level at 1-1, the next test will kick off on Thursday.
02:39 Interim Ebbs Fleet United manager Danny Searle says he wants the job permanently. Following
02:45 a 0-0 draw with mid-table side Oldham Athletic, the former Aldershot manager said he's made
02:50 no bones about the fact that he'd love to manage this side. The result still leaves
02:54 them from the weekend sitting in the relegation zone two points from safety. Speaking to Kent
02:59 Online this weekend, he said it's a great group and any manager inheriting is inheriting
03:04 a really good bunch of lads.
03:08 Sticking with football, we'll hear more from the Ebbs Fleet game in just a moment, but
03:10 also this weekend, Tunbridge Angels looked to climb the National League South table as
03:14 they welcomed Chippenham Town to Longmead. Let's hear it.
03:20 In this week's football round-up, we go to Tunbridge Angels as they hosted Chippenham
03:24 Town.
03:25 Tunbridge's front line quickly caused some issues for the Chippenham defence. The first
03:29 chance fell to Tunbridge as Locke capitalised on a misplaced pass. Running with speed to
03:34 the edge of the box, his cross was cut out, but picking it back up, he dribbled past the
03:39 defence and powered a shot off. Will Henry though leapt and pushed it over the bar for
03:44 a great save. Chippenham then gave the ball away, leaving Odecaniero to gallivant the
03:48 box, but he was fouled on the edge. Shields floated the ball into the back of the box,
03:52 Vincent hit it on the volley but it was blocked. Wagstaff then took a swing at it but it was
03:57 cleared away.
03:59 And that was very nearly 1-0 to Tunbridge.
04:02 Seconds later, Tunbridge got another chance. Shields retrieved the ball and popped a shot
04:06 off. The keeper parried it to the post, but Leon Foster tapped it in for the first goal
04:11 of the day.
04:12 With the second half well underway, the next chance fell in favour for Tunbridge. A through
04:23 ball from Leon Foster found Shields. He drew his defender out, running into the box, before
04:28 firing one home for Tunbridge's second.
04:34 Shields continued to be a threat. His cross looked dangerous, but nothing came from it.
04:39 After five minutes of extra time, the final scores on the doors was Tunbridge 2-0 Chippenham.
04:45 Elsewhere in the Vanarama National League South, Maidstone won 2-1 against league leaders
04:50 Yeovil Town, whilst Dover and Dartford both lost their fixtures. Maidstone move into fourth,
04:56 whilst Tunbridge hold 11th, three points out from the playoffs. Dover sit at rock bottom.
05:02 In League 2, the Shields were held to a 1-1 draw against the travelling Walsall side.
05:06 "Disappointed. I came here for three points today. I thought we had a real chance, even
05:12 though I knew we were playing against a very good team. Walsall, like I watch every team
05:16 a lot, I think they've improved a lot this season. So, as I say, I knew it was going
05:22 to be difficult, but I expect us to play better than we did in the first half."
05:25 Gillingham sit in 10th, sharing 43 points with 9th place Wimbledon.
05:30 In the Vanarama National League, Ebbsfleet United drew 0-0 against Oldham Athletic. They
05:35 sit 22nd in the relegation zone, where one point separates five different teams.
05:41 And finally for the Ismian League Premier, where Chatham Town were able to beat Whitehall
05:45 2-1, whilst Folkestone and Victor edged Bielerici in a 2-1 win. Chatham stay in contention for
05:52 promotion in second, as Folkestone battle it out in 15th.
05:56 I'm James Seal and that was your Football Roundup.
05:59 Don't forget you can keep up to date with all the latest football news by reading Kent
06:04 Online. But did you also know you can have your weekly digest of non-league news from
06:09 around the county sent directly to your email inbox. Just search Kent Online email alerts
06:14 and sign up on the website for all the latest written transfer news, match reports and interviews.
06:18 Plus you can also sign up for email alerts for all the latest Gillingham news too.
06:22 Some interesting reading came into my inbox this morning. But now it's time to remind
06:26 you that you can keep up to date with all the latest sports news, interviews and features
06:30 from here on Invicta Sport by heading to our website kmtv.co.uk and clicking on that sports
06:36 tab. There you'll see videos like this one from when we spoke to Dom Shaw, the Chatham
06:40 born racer who is set to join the world's first all disabled motorsport team. Dom uses
06:45 a wheelchair due to a lifelong spinal condition. Take a listen.
06:49 Thank you very much for being here and welcome onto Invicta Sport.
06:52 Thank you very much for having me.
06:53 It's amazing to have you here. Now first of all, tell me where it all started. I believe
06:56 your dad was a big inspiration for you getting behind the wheel.
06:59 Yeah, so my dad raced 94s locally. He'd always had the Porsche in the garage and I'd help
07:06 him out with the car and go to every race with him. And that's what sparked the interest
07:12 for racing for me. But it was something I never thought was possible, being disabled
07:17 and not having the equipment available.
07:20 And you've been in a wheelchair since birth and obviously you use it every day in your
07:26 life. But you did start off trying out karting at a young age and also remote car racing.
07:32 Tell me the story behind that.
07:33 Yeah, so my dad insisted that I go in a go kart from a young age to get me used to driving
07:40 so that it would eventually get me independent in driving on the roads, etc. myself. But
07:47 also as well that sparked the interest in going racing as well. And again, with the
07:53 lack of facilities, when I was nine my dad bought me my first ever remote control car,
08:01 which I still race. I don't race the same one, but I still do remote control car racing
08:05 to this day.
08:06 It's fantastic. I know there's quite a big following behind remote car racing. My producer
08:10 in the year right now is saying she does it. So yeah, it's fantastic. But of course now,
08:15 fast forward to today, you're about to compete in your first championship. How are you feeling?
08:21 Excited. All the emotions you can think of. Excited, nervous. It's a dream come true to
08:27 finally be a racing driver.
08:30 Exactly that. You actually get to say that now. And you've proven people wrong. We've
08:33 got pictures of you here in the studio and also on the screen of you testing out some
08:38 cars. This is a C1, but you're going to be driving a BMW Series 1.
08:42 Yes, that's correct, yeah.
08:44 And you've already been in the car, you've done some testing. What's it been like?
08:47 Yeah, so when I first met Team Brit, I did a track day with them and I went in that very
08:52 same car. So I've done that a couple of years ago and hopefully I'll be racing that again
08:59 in March.
09:00 So I understand you're paralysed from the waist down. Have you got a modified car? How
09:06 does it work for people that don't understand?
09:08 So myself, I've got hand control. So I've got a steering ball on the wheel and then
09:12 I've got a push-pull hand control to the side for accelerator and brake.
09:17 And your team-mate, I've written his name down, Caleb McDuff, he's the UK's only deaf
09:22 driver and all of your team-mates within Team Brit are all disabled as well. How does it
09:28 feel to be paving the way? I mean, it's the world's first team to be all disabled. There's
09:32 going to be a whole generation of young drivers who'll be looking up to you thinking, "That's
09:37 never going to be something I can achieve." But then when they see you doing it and your
09:40 team-mates, that's going to completely change that.
09:42 That's it. That is the plan, to inspire others to come forward and join us to be disabled
09:48 racing drivers. That's what Team Brit is for, to show that disabled people can compete in
09:54 motorsport.
09:55 Now what would you say to your younger self if he was looking up now? He's trying out
10:00 go-karting and he's got those remote-controlled cars for the first time. If you could see
10:04 him now, what would you say to him?
10:06 Do it. Go for it. If you think you want to do it and you want to approach someone, send
10:12 the email, make that phone call, turn up on their doorstep, go for it. Don't stop.
10:17 Don't stop. Fantastic. Well, you're not going to be stopping. Very soon you're going to
10:21 be behind the car, you're going to be there, those lights are going to go out and you're
10:23 going to be racing away. First one's the Brit Kart Championship, a very competitive series,
10:29 starting off at Donington Park.
10:30 30th of March.
10:31 Okay, and have you got a track that you're looking forward to most? Obviously, you've
10:35 got the local one, you're from Medway, not too far away is Brands Hatch, of course.
10:39 Yeah, so I'm looking forward to Donington being the very first race. And again, that
10:44 was my very first racing track experience in a real car. So that would be amazing for
10:50 me. I've been around Brands as well, so I'm looking forward to that, but I've never been
10:55 around the GP circuit.
10:56 Okay, right, so first, of course. Now, do you get to do any more testing before the
11:00 season actually starts or is that just straight in for the first practice, I assume?
11:04 Yeah, we will be testing at some point to make sure that we're all ready for the season,
11:09 making sure we're familiar with the car and the controls to make sure that we've got all
11:14 the preparation correct at the start of the season.
11:16 And where do you hope to take this? I know the dream was to just get in the car, let
11:20 alone be racing it. I mean, where do you hope to take your career?
11:24 So, Team Brit's long-term goal is to be the first all-disabled racing team to compete
11:29 at Le Mans. So I hope to be part of that team when we're ready to do so.
11:34 And that's fantastic. We hope to follow you all the way. Dom, thank you so much for coming
11:38 and sharing your journey with us. We're going to hopefully come down when you reach Brands
11:42 in the calendar and we'll follow your journey there.
11:44 Fantastic. Thank you very much for having me.
11:45 Thank you very much.
11:46 Now, we've reached half time, which means it's time for a break, but coming up, this
11:50 is exciting. We spoke to some of the athletes from the University of Kent who discussed
11:53 how valuable nutrition is for our physical fitness whilst being a student, plus Kit Windsor
11:59 from the Ace of Blades rowing team spoke to me about the big journey.
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15:14 Hello, welcome back to Invicta Sport Live on KMTV.
15:19 Now as part of the second series of Kent Student 101 making its premiere last week,
15:25 producers on our Year in Television course in partnership with the University of Kent have been speaking to athletes from the University
15:31 about their first-hand experience on maintaining a healthy lifestyle on a budget.
15:36 Here's George Erdogan.
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15:43 I visited the University of Kent where I spoke to two track athletes about what it takes to train,
15:47 not only mentally and physically, but nutritionally.
15:50 Nutrition is so, so important. It's so, so important.
15:54 I very much used to overlook it myself to be honest with you.
15:57 My teammates know I'm very much a snack guy. I love my snacks.
16:01 And it's very hard for me to put them down in the season, but I am very much starting to improve on my diet and health in general.
16:10 I've really been taking it seriously because I realised the benefit of correct nutrition and fueling yourself for training
16:18 and then for performance at competitions and stuff. So I've really been taking it a lot more seriously.
16:23 I'm way stronger on the track. I'm way faster.
16:27 My energy levels in general when I'm training are way better.
16:31 There are certain really tough days in practice where you need to finish the last rep or the last set.
16:37 You just need an extra gear and it's literally, you can't find it without something.
16:42 And usually it's your diet or your hydration. You just need it, to be honest.
16:47 Obviously I'm at uni, so I'm on a budget.
16:50 So mornings normally I have a bagel, like Nutella maybe, and it's like orange juice just for the carbs and glucose and all that.
16:58 Throughout the day I'm always drinking water. And yeah, so it'd be very repetitive. I can't lie.
17:02 It's very boring. It's nothing special, but it's good.
17:05 I'd say it's something that I missed out on when I was younger.
17:08 I didn't really look into whatever I was eating because when we're all young, we just come home and we just eat whatever my mum's cooked.
17:15 But it's really because of my teammates that kind of put me on all of my nutritional values and whatnot.
17:22 I came back from an injury where I was not eating my best.
17:27 And I could feel it just from doing a warm-up lap around the track.
17:30 I just felt a lot more sluggish and not as springy as I usually feel.
17:35 So I can definitely tell the difference.
17:37 Now our next guest is a returnee to Invicta Sport.
17:45 Back in November, we spoke to Kit Windsor.
17:47 She's part of the Ace of Blades rowing team as they were preparing to row 3,000 miles across the Atlantic.
17:54 It's known as the world's toughest row, and after years of preparation and training and 47 days out of sea, well, they've done it.
18:03 I caught up with Kit earlier today to see just how she got on.
18:06 But before we hear from her, let's take a look back at their journey.
18:09 Years of preparation, 47 days at sea, and now memories for life.
18:15 Sittingbourne's Kit Windsor, alongside a team of three other women,
18:19 are among the 33 teams to have taken on the world's toughest rowing race across the Atlantic.
18:25 A 3,000 mile self-propelled journey from the Canary Islands to Antigua.
18:30 Setting off on the 13th of December, the Ace of Blades, as they're known,
18:35 spent their Christmas and New Year's battling the rough Atlantic seas for 24 hours a day.
18:41 With limited communication back to those still on land,
18:44 it's understandable why the nerves were ticking over for family and friends and the rowers themselves.
18:49 But with help of the live tracker, which we watched here on KMTV, it's clear the squad were staying relentless.
18:56 I think my favourite thing over the past four weeks has been how the team has rallied together to deal with all the big things that we've been faced with,
19:03 starting with seasickness and then auto-tuner problems, hand steering, losing our daggerboard and everything in between.
19:09 We've really come in to our own and worked really well as a team.
19:12 Out at sea, they were joined by over 200 dolphins, whales and flying fish.
19:17 Let's go play in the fish tank!
19:20 Kit and her team took part in the whole challenge with the goal of raising money for four chosen charities,
19:26 including Macmillan Cancer Support, Prostate Cymru, the Outward Bound Trust and Charlie Waller Trust.
19:32 Reaching Antigua on the final day, it was a job well done and smiles all around.
19:39 They came seventh in the women's class and 22nd overall.
19:43 Really incredible stuff there. Now, as I mentioned, I spoke to Kit earlier today
19:47 and I started by asking just how she's adjusted to life back on land.
19:51 The day after we landed, we had a day or had a few hours of clearing the boat out,
19:58 getting all the equipment off and putting things off that we wanted to bring back to the UK now and left on the boat shipping.
20:06 I definitely had moments when we were at sea thinking, gosh, this boat is actually quite big.
20:12 And then we got back on to land and all of our friends and our families and partners were helping us clear the boat off
20:19 and just seeing four or five people stood around it, we were like, gosh, it's actually really small.
20:24 So I was talking to my partner about it, he was like, the human body is so adaptable to the situations you're in.
20:32 Yeah, it's been a complete whirlwind. I feel like I've lost a limb a little bit, not been surrounded by the girls 24/7.
20:42 Absolutely, because you've been training with these three other women for years to get onto this,
20:47 but actually spending the 47 days together, day and night, 24/7 and also that boat to kind of join you all together.
20:54 You must be closer than ever with these girls.
20:57 Yeah, absolutely. And I think we've got a lot of in-jokes that we've sort of been saying since we got back without each other around
21:06 and nobody finds it quite as amusing as we all did.
21:09 And trying to explain things to, I was trying to explain to my dad the other day about sort of,
21:15 even though we weren't rowing in same motion, when we're sort of surfing down waves and then coming forwards down the slide
21:23 when we're rowing to then, it's called take the catch in rowing, to then pull backwards.
21:30 When you're surfing down the waves and you've got that action, it honestly feels like life is going in slow motion
21:36 and it's really hard to explain that to somebody.
21:39 But it was quite tough when you was out there as well, you had your fair share of difficulties with,
21:43 I know one of them, I was reading the list, but one of them was actually your drinking water supply.
21:47 The machine that you used to kind of make the water drinkable stopped working at one point.
21:52 That must have been quite scary.
21:54 Yeah, it was one of those, oh God, what are we going to do?
22:00 Because the, so there's a filter within it, which I, myself and Laura managed to get the filter housing off,
22:09 which was actually quite challenging, because it was brand new and like factory tight.
22:13 So it took us an hour to get it off.
22:16 And then when we got the filter out, it was bright orange, which we sent pictures to the watermaker expert,
22:25 a guy called Jim and again, the safety officers, and they'd never seen an orange filter before.
22:32 So we were like, okay, are we drinking like lurgy water, really.
22:39 So we then had a discussion as to whether we needed to hand pump water with a handheld watermaker,
22:46 or if we could basically put up with the taste or knowing that we were drinking water that wasn't possibly the cleanest,
22:56 which was a bit of a, yeah, a bit of a scary situation when if we couldn't get the watermaker to a place where we were happy with the quality of the water,
23:07 we'd have had to hand pump water, which the hand pumping watermaker makes two litres of water per hour.
23:14 So that's one hour's less rest.
23:17 And you have to manually pump water when you should be resting, basically, which wouldn't have been ideal.
23:27 But in the end, we managed to figure out what it was.
23:31 And that was the issue. But we'd already used our spare filter before we'd figured it out.
23:38 And we didn't have two spares, which was a shame. But, yeah, we managed to get through.
23:46 Absolutely. You did manage to get through. Absolutely. And of course, it is a race.
23:51 You came seventh overall in the seventh in the women's category, 22nd overall.
23:57 I mean, and you also managed to stick to that target of under 50 days as a whole.
24:02 You must be very impressed with yourselves. Yeah, I think we're really, really proud of ourselves.
24:09 We our goal was to step on land, being firmer friends than we were before we left.
24:16 And we had discussions on the boat after we had quite a tough start.
24:24 I don't think we probably had the start that we wanted, but the laws of Mother Nature and the route that we decided to take.
24:31 And I think we were all feeling quite down in the first after the first week or so after learning where a few of the crews are.
24:39 But we all sort of turned around to each other at different times saying, look, failure for us in this is not being friends at the end.
24:46 And that's what we said from the very beginning. So, yeah, I'm really proud of us.
24:51 Thank you so much for joining us today. There's plenty more photos on your team's Instagram that people can check out,
24:57 because there are some lovely sites there as well, which kind of counters the some of the harsher conditions that you described.
25:03 But yeah, brilliant all around. Just one final thing to mention is, of course, your fundraising for four charities.
25:09 People can still help out now. And I understand that that money will be split equally between those four.
25:15 Yeah, that's correct. We have a collection pot link on our website.
25:21 And yes, it's Prostate Cymru, Macmillan Cancer Support, the Charlie Waller Trust and the Outward Bound Trust as well.
25:29 And yeah, the link is still live. It will still be live for a couple of months whilst we sort of get all of our finances sorted with this selling of the boat and things like that.
25:40 It's still still available to donate to. Yeah. Thank you very much for joining us today.
25:45 Oh, that's not for me, I must say that. Now, before we go this evening, it's just a reminder that if you want to take part in Invicta Sport and you want to appear here on the show and you take part in sport yourself, you absolutely can.
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26:10 So just make sure to tag us on social media @KMTVKent or send us an email to sport@kmtv.co.uk.
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26:22 Which part of Kent did you come from and what it is exactly you're doing in those pictures or videos?
26:27 Now, that's full time on today's episode of Invicta Sport. If you want more from KMTV, you can watch all of our other special programmes.
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26:43 I'll be back on Friday with another episode. But for now, goodbye.
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