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Pet ostriches join Sophie Becker's RTÉ Player chat

The Irish sprinter visits The 2 Johnnies for Olympic memories, farm stories and a Soho guessing game.

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Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.

Sophie Becker on pet ostriches | The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In

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0:25Becker describes her pre-race mental routine, including visualising the track and remembering the smell of chip vans.
2:18She reflects on Ireland's fourth-place Olympic relay finish and the rise in young people taking up athletics.
4:00Childhood farm stories introduce a kitchen-table dog, pet ostriches and running after cattle.
5:39Becker outlines racing ambitions including the World Championships in Beijing and the Los Angeles Olympics.
6:16"Spot the Irish" links the panel to patrons outside The Toucan in Soho; the final reveal comes at 08:35.

Sophie Becker has raced cows, but she draws the line at the obvious follow-up question about her childhood pets. "No, I didn't race an ostrich, but I have raced like cows," she tells The 2 Johnnies.

Her visit to Late Night Lock In was RTÉ Player's most-watched new upload of the week, drawing about 3,100 views. The farm stories come with a family photograph beside an ostrich, but the conversation also finds room for the more complicated feeling of finishing fourth with Ireland's Olympic women's relay team. Becker describes the result as bittersweet and says she thinks about it every day as motivation. Her mother Tina, whose voice she can pick out at races, is in the audience.

Four uploads made for a compact week. Another Lock In extract brought Finn from Askeaton and Roisin from Kilfian into The Parish Quiz, while brief clips from Malice and This City Is Ours supplied the drama. Among the videos drawing the most daily views, a What We Do in the Shadows extract sits alongside that fresh This City Is Ours clip and Tom Grennan's earlier Lock In appearance, with its Offaly roots and wrestling mishaps.

The wider channel had a slower spell: daily views are running at less than half their usual level, and subscribers were unchanged over the week. Nearby-sized television channels had mixed fortunes, with Channel 4 Food enjoying a busier daily audience and Channel 9 also below its usual viewing level. For RTÉ Player, the week's strongest new draw was a sprinter explaining that farmyard running was not always voluntary.

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