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DECLAN FARMER: Sled hockey completely changed my life.

Finding sled hockey for the first time when I was 9

was amazing.

I loved it from the first time I got on the ice.

I hope that our team playing on the international stage

in Pyeongchang and that being broadcast

all over the country --

I hope other kids and stuff will see that and want

to be like us.

My name is Declan Farmer.

I'm Class of 2020.

I study economics, and I'm on the U.S. Paralympic Sled Hockey

Team.

I was born as a double amputee.

I've been using prosthetics to walk ever

since I was 1 years old.

I was always a competitive kid, and I was really

just struggling playing T-ball or soccer

with able-bodied kids.

I really never got to be competitive and be

one of the best out there.

Sled hockey gave me the chance to do that.

My professors at Princeton and advisers

have really worked with me and allowed

me to miss the time I need, and also everyone at the Princeton

hockey department who has allowed me to skate

here and train here on my own.

I really appreciate all the sacrifices and help

people in the Princeton community

have given me to achieve the dream of going

to the Paralympics again.

CARA MOREY: Watching his approach to what he does,

you can tell that Declan's a champion.

I think if people could see Declan

and what he does and hear his story,

that any time they feel down or that the world is tough,

that they can see Declan and be inspired that they

can do more than they think.

ANNOUNCER: And rival Declan Farmer--

he shoots, and it's in!

DECLAN FARMER: The first Paralympics was really

a special moment for me.

It turned out well for us.

We were able to win the tournament.

All those years of hard work coming together,

and you getting to hold your gold medal,

and hear the national anthem and sing it along

with your teammates --

it's really a special moment.

This time we hope to repeat what we did at Sochi.

We hope to win a gold medal again.

It's just a blast going out and playing for your country

and playing the sport you love.

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Lesson 102 Learn English - A Brief history of British Game Shows - Verbs + To Infinitive - Duration: 6:58.

Session 102 - A brief history of British game shows. The first ever British game

show was "Spelling Bee" in 1938. Transmitted live from the BBC Studios,

the format of the show simply involved a puddle of guests being asked to spell a

series of words. The show was short lived as the Second World War resulted in

television closing down and on its return did not produce any notable game

shows. In 1951 that all changed with the launch of "What's My Line", a panel show in

which contestants with unusual occupations perform a mime of the job that

they do, then field yes-or-no questions from four celebrities aiming to

work out the contestant's job. In 1955, ITV came into being, a commercial station

that brought into revenue and allowed for game shows to offer cash prizes, the

first one being "Take your Pick". The game opened from a qualification game where

the contestants had to respond to the questions master's questions without

saying "Yes or No". Those who qualified were asked three general knowledge

questions, and if answered correctly would get to pick one of ten keys, each

one corresponding to a numbered box. The host would try to buy the keys off the

contestant, who would either sell back the key or open the box. Some of the boxes

contained booby prizes, others contained legitimate prizes. This brought on a game

show frenzy and by 1958 there was a quiz show on 6 nights of the week. A similar

fever existed in the USA and as a result, many different formats emerged and was

subsequently copied. Shows like "The 64,000 Dollar Question"

and "Twenty One" enjoyed immense success. "Take Your Pick" remained one of the

leading shows of audiences but was unfortunately

axed due to a loss of the franchise. Despite the launch of the BBC's second channel,

in 1964, there are not many offerings to fill in the void left by "Take Your Pick".

"Call My Bluff" was the only game show of any note on this channel, whilst ITV aired

the highbrow, "University Challenge". The 70s brought with it a political

incorrectness as comedians and sitcoms aired their dirty laundry on ITV. To

counter this, the BBC produced several game shows with the functional,

upstanding family at its base, shows like "Ask the Family" and "Generation Game".

Though the "Generation Game" and shows to come like "Family Fortunes" held with the family

orientated format, the strike culture that was sweeping across Britain again

altered the face of television game shows. ITV's "Sale of The Century" capitalised on

the BBC's all-out strike and won over 21.2 million viewers, the highest

ever rating for an ITV game show. The translation of American game shows on to

British television kept the genre alive but it was "The Krypton Factor" that was

one of the first new-style game shows to be exported to the USA. Launched in 1977

by ITV, "The Krypton Factor" combined quiz, puzzle and physical challenges and put

four contestants through "the ultimate mental and physical tests". The title of

the show was a reference to Superman's home planet Krypton. Each episode

consisted of six rounds, Mental Agility; Response; Intelligence;

Observation; Physical Ability and General Knowledge. The Mental Agility round was

originally called the "Personality" round in which contestants were

set creative tasks such as rewriting nursery rhymes as news reports or inventing

limericks on a given topic. Other rounds included dexterity tests,

spot the difference, assault courses, spatial awareness tests, and question

rounds. Contestants went head to head, with the overall winner of each episode

moving on to the next stage with a chance to take it to the final to win

The Krypton Factor Superperson of the Year. The show aired for 17 series

consecutively, with no show produced in 1994. It made a return in 1995 but was

not seen again until 2009/2010. Although it was very successful in

Britain it did not do so well in the U.S. producing only two series. The first

was a five-week limited series that aired in 1981 and the second premiered

on September 15, 1990 and ran until September 7, 1991. So successful was "The

Krypton Factor" that it has crashed on merchandise including clothing and

sports bags, made popular by the show itself as all contestants would receive

these items with the Krypton Factor logo on them as gifts for appearing on the

programme. Several books have been published concerning the show and in

1989 a Krypton Factor quiz book was published. There have also been computer

game and an interactive DVD Board Game. Adrenalin, a company that offers

corporate entertainments, paintball, orienteering, mountain biking and

survival training in North Yorkshire, markets itself as the home of the

obstacle course from the TV series, which offers the paying public a chance to

take on the Assault course.