Sep 12, 2026 · 36 min · 13 segments
After commentating on the opening night of the first ever World Ultimate Championship, Hannah joins Rich from Budapest following an evening that belonged to Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who produced a…
Hannah EnglandHost
I think, um, it was nice to, like, start with a bang in an evening session in the dark.
I think often when you start kind of a major world athletics event, it's kind of 10:00 in the morning, and it's all a bit everyone's kind of easing into it and trying to get a world champs vibe that doesn't feel authentic at that time of day.
Whereas to start, y- in, uh, uh, in the dark with that, the black grass that did work in the end.
And I, I do think there has been, like, a massive energy from the athletes all season looking forward to this.
There seemed to be a big gravitas, sort of, yeah, really felt like it was a final.
It felt like a world champs final evening, and I think it will feel like that all week.
Um, yeah, so first of all on the grass, I think by the end of the night when they had, like, the aerial shots, it started to look a bit more green.
Um, when it comes to how it felt, um, at first it was also, uh, I guess a little bit disorientating 'cause it actually felt l- because obviously lots of different things were coming in.
They do the, um, sort of film aspect ratio different thing where they sort of bring the black letter box thing down, don't they-
I think, um, it was nice to, like, start with a bang in an evening session in the dark.
I think often when you start kind of a major world athletics event, it's kind of 10:00 in the morning, and it's all a bit everyone's kind of easing into it and trying to get a world champs vibe that doesn't feel authentic at that time of day.
Whereas to start, y- in, uh, uh, in the dark with that, the black grass that did work in the end.
And I, I do think there has been, like, a massive energy from the athletes all season looking forward to this.
There seemed to be a big gravitas, sort of, yeah, really felt like it was a final.
It felt like a world champs final evening, and I think it will feel like that all week.
Um, yeah, so first of all on the grass, I think by the end of the night when they had, like, the aerial shots, it started to look a bit more green.
Um, when it comes to how it felt, um, at first it was also, uh, I guess a little bit disorientating 'cause it actually felt l- because obviously lots of different things were coming in.
They do the, um, sort of film aspect ratio different thing where they sort of bring the black letter box thing down, don't they-
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