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STORY: GAZA / GREAT BOUNCE WORLD RECORD
SOURCE: UNRWA
TRT: 1:28
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ARABIC / NATS
DATELINE: 22 JULY 2010, NEW YORK CITY
1. Med shot, UN and UNRWA Summer Games flags
2. Wide shot, banner for Summer Games
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Summer Games Participant 1:
“I am very happy because I am going to be bouncing and to play and to prove who is the best in bouncing.”
4. Various shots, children waiting for the Great Gaza Bounce to start
5. Various shots, children bouncing their basketballs
6. Pan left, end of bounce and children throw up their balls
7. Med shot, judges with children
8. Med shot, children celebrating
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Summer Games Participant 2:
“We really break a new record, I don’t know what to say, I am so happy, very, very happy. And I hope they do it again.”
10. Med shot, participant bouncing the ball
11. Various shots, children celebrating
More than 7,200 children in Gaza today simultaneously bounced basketballs, putting them on track to set their second world record in as many years, as part of an annual summer sporting event organized by the United Nations agency assisting Palestinian refugees.
Today’s record of 7,203 balls dribbled more than doubles the previous record set in 2007 in the United States, where just over 3,000 balls were bounced.
SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Summer Games Participant 2:
“We really break a new record, I don’t know what to say, I am so happy, very, very happy. And I hope they do it again.”
But the area’s young people are not content with smashing one world record this summer.
Later this week, they are expected to set a separate world record for the number of kites flown simultaneously, a record they themselves set during last year’s Summer Games, when nearly 4,000 kites were hoisted in the air.
UNRWA’s Summer Games, now in their fourth year, engage more than a quarter of a million refugee children across Gaza in such activities as sports, arts and crafts, theatre and drama. As the largest recreation programme for Gaza’s children, it is providing 1,200 summer camps for the duration of the Games, which run from 12 June through 5 August this year.
