talkSPORT News Release
Keith Arthur, the presenter of weekly fishing show Fisherman’s Blues, announced on talkSPORT, the UK’s only national commercial speech radio station, today (April 1) that fishing is to be a new Olympic sport.
He said: “This has been bubbling under for a month now, and you can tell I’m excited. The Angling Trust has been deeply involved with the IOC [International Olympic Committee] so and I’ve heard that carp fishing is going to be an official Olympic sport. I was thinking it would be fly fishing but because carp are everywhere it makes sense to have carp fishing.”
Keith tipped England for a Gold medal, saying: “Olympic gold will definitely be on the cards for England because we do so much of it, but South Africa are hugely strong. And some of the Eastern European teams – Serbia and Croatia. Croatia is a massive carp fishing country.”
It was Alan Brazil’s co-presenter, Ronnie Irani, who first smelt something fishy about the story, checked the date and realised that they’d been hooked in and wound up.
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