BBC Breakfast’s sports presenter Mike Bushell, called into Bolton School to inspire the next generation.
Mike has tried out 474 sports with the aim of encouraging others to find the right one for them. He was appearing part of media and digital media career days at Bolton School.
Mike told pupils that everyone has the “instinct to play” and that this, along with the social and physical benefits, is the essence of sport.
He also discussed some of the fascinating sports he has reported on and tried out, including quidditch, bog snorkelling and worm charming, and got pupils to play a game of Sport or Spoof? where they had to guess which were real sports and which ones he had made up.
He was among a number of visitors to speak about careers in journalism including Saiqa Chaudhari from The Bolton News.
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