1976: GEOFF CAPES - Athlete, Policeman, BUDGIE BREEDER | Nationwide | BBC Archive
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- Geoff Capes welcomed Michael Delahaye into his home back in the summer of 1976 as he prepared to participate in the shot put at the Montréal Olympics. He spoke of his first steps in the sport, the high-protein diet and training regime required of an international athlete, balancing such commitments with his work as a police officer and how he relaxed - with his budgies.
Lincolnshire born-and-bred, three-time Olympian Geoff is still (as of summer 2024) the British shot put record holder and has also held titles as illustrious as Commonwealth Games Champion, World Highland Games Champion, World's Strongest Man and World Champion Budgerigar Breeder.
Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Wednesday 9 June, 1976.
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They were concerned about his life expectancy, but he's still alive at the age of 74. He seems a nice gentle giant. I wish him all the best :)
The experts said he would die of heart disease by 50. Never listen to these people and just live your life the way you want to.
I worked in a hotel where they hosted an annual budgie convention.
I met Geoff there. He came across as a nice person.
Such a handsome and gentle man! Glad he's doing well today aged 74 in 2024.
I used to love watching the Worlds Strongest Man growing up in the 80s. My dad used to give me stuff to lift when he was weight training in the garage, great memories.
Haha. My Dad used to come and wake my brother and me up, when we were 6 or 7, around Christmas / New Years time and say "Boys, come down and watch Worlds Strongest Man with your Mam and me! Geoff Capes is on!". We'd go down and watch this giant guy lifting things that seemed impossible! My DAD was the strongest man who ever lived, in my eyes, till I saw Geoff Capes!
(But it was probably still my Dad......).
:D
You can sense a lot of anger in Geoff I feel. Thank God he had his Budgies to keep him relatively mellow.
Just blows my mind this was 50 years ago
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We couldn't have known at the time this was filmed, but in the 80s he would be the star of a computer game as well. Surely a highlight for any celebrity!
1976: GEOFF CAPES - Athlete, Policeman, BUDGIE BREEDER | Nationwide | BBC Archive 28.6.24 0937am you can still play these games online reagrds retro gaming... even the old daly thompson decathlon game is still knocking about... i used to own that game with my spectrum. i really liked british sports circa 1970/1980 - when the guys, it's trite now, got on and did it without too much fuss. if we compare the guys then with the prima donnas now... the sparse facilities, the doing it off yer own bat schtick.... well.... i mean, shame on them, these over paid over s;ponsored dolts!!!!!! underrated champs are hard to come by. pretty cool by me, though. the era of having some furitve respect for the old east germans (eg: Jürgen Straub) and the like - though they were probably from South Dakota or some such.... as they struggled with all manner of b.s to just be allowed to do what is so simple a task - run, or throw sommat - in that lust for gold!!! capes? a winner in most things... whether it be world's strongest man or Uk's strongest man, eating breakfast cereals or ripping up telephone books... not to mention his olympic shot put performances.... the rennaisance man of sport..... ahahahah...... stew storey and ron pickwring exemplified this era. irrespectiveof what you think of those guys... again, they had a handle omn most things and probably new not to give vent to the football scores if they knew people had recorded thegame previously... hint!! hint!!!! nostalgia or just respect for a limited means budget...? p.s as much as nick wants to emulate me and even overhaul me - no chance, son...
i had that on my amstrad cpc 464
@@mcdonagh81 29.6.24 0006AM i knew a guy who owned an oric... so embarrassed was he of it that he ransacked the roof of the pub he lived in and blamed it on ghostly presences... in that the roof fell on said oric and he was quids in...
@@JJONNYREPP couldnt beat hyper sports
@@JJONNYREPP i had a c16 😪
Well spoken gentleman
How GORGEOUS was he back in the day
Holy crap, what a blast from the past. Geoff is a deadset legend. ✌ 🇦🇺
A right living legend right there
What a beast props to his loyal wife also prepping food all day for him
I miss old Britain 😢
Lol I wonder what this secretly means nudge nudge wink wink
@danmcdaid I won't pretend I don't.
There was nothing wrong with our way of life, im all for immigration, but the result of mass immigration has left our country looking like a third world shite hole.
Vote reform!!!.
"I destroyed the British National Party. We had a far-right party in this country who genuinely were anti-jew, anti-black and all of those things. And I came along and said to their voters, 'If you're holding your nose and voting for this party as a protest, don't. Come and vote for me. I'm not against anybody, I just want us to start putting British people first'. And I almost single-handedly destroyed the far-right in British politics. That's not a bad achievement". -Nigel Farage, Reform Party leader
Voting is precisely useless, mate
@@danmcdaidno wink or nudge, it only means what it says, they miss the old Britain.
Geoff’s Capes - a cape for every occasion.
Back when the BBC was the BBC...
He was 27 here, mad!
Looks 54
@@sonanderson6351hardly 54. Maybe in his 30's
I thought he looked 28 😂
He’s a lovely man ❤️
A man so strong, he's tamed Dinosaurs!
2 x Worlds Strongest Man in the 80s.
Loved watching Geoff Capes compete in strong man competitions when I was a young man very inspiring watching him lift huge weighted wheel barrows and bend steel bars. I ended up throwing the hammer for Sale Harriers and lifting weights no regrets all fun!
Love capeys it's a shame younger athletes like myself have never heard of him I'm 27 and have been following him for a while now and I think he's definitely a role model if you're into some sort of weight training
Great man.
74 years old and counting...
i know and the reporter said his diet would reduce his life expectancy
Goes to show I think - look after yourself, but when you're time's up, your time's up
Excellent upload,
Hero of mine as a child
My dad took me to a Stafford bird show when I was a kid in the early 90's, where I met Geoff I didn't even know who he was until my Dad said I had just been talking to 2x Worlds Strongest Man, huge bloke and loved his birds he was very kind to give a young lad a little bit of his time for a chat. I'm now in my 40s and still remember and it's great to see a bit of history of a great bloke
Might be imagining this but I think he came to my school in Werrington, Peterborough back in 80s or 90s. And I remember him well as the strong man on various TV shows too. Geoff is as nostalgic for me as anything from my childhood.
I met Geoff a few times in a pub called The Dungeon in Glendevon Scotland,I'm sure he owned? He was an absolute gentleman giant. 😊
Shout out to a giant king
"Im gonna pull your head off because I dont like your head"-Geoff Woade
Well, if his diet will result in living 1/3 that of an average person, ol Geoff will live past 100. His life parallels that of Mike Tyson with Mikes passion for pigeons. Another quality and worth while watching video from BBC Archives.
he lifted friends cars to change tyres that got me ha
Yeah that's true,
Great ..caps..came to Harlow gym Essex to open it
Was great to see him there..
Legend
Hes still going strong.
Strong being the operative word
Watching Geoff has given me inspiration. I feel motivated 💪
Go lift something heavy!
@@TheVanillatechido lift but cannot lift heavy. But to me it definitely feels beneficial.
@@peternagy-im4be Anything is better than nothing. If you don't have a physical job, or if you've retired ... always good to stay active.
If you don't use it you lose it.
Capes was a LEGEND. A true sportsman and good man, world champion two times and in a very competitive era. I was always impressed by his sportsmanship and attitude towards fellow competitors. He represented the UK very well. Much like Gary Taylor and Jamie Reeves after him.
Compare him to someone like Eddie Hall, who is such a disgrace to the country despite being our "best hope" of a WSM winner since the days of Hollands and Felix. Not even a worth comparison, in my opinion.
The toughest men in the world all over ..tend to keep feathered friends . That's a known fact .
LEGEND!
Loved this guy. One of my childhood heroes. Surprised he wasn’t one of Eddie Halls neither. Would love a meet up
On kids telly in the '70s and early '80s, whenever they needed 'a bit of muscle', they'd wheel Geoff Capes on. He was a very familiar face when growing up.
One of our best known athletes over the last fifty years never to win an Olympic medal, though he excelled in most other competitions around the world. Shame he was never offered a gong though, as he was simply an ordinary bloke who 'done good'.
A modest guy with little ego, and an interest in breeding budgies. What's not to like?
they'd always wheel him out and given him some copies of the yellow pages
He was a very great sportsman, diplomat, credible character. Represented us WELL on the world stage, despite being a champion. Zero Ego, as you said!
Todays atheletes could learn a lot from Big G.
@@4879daniel Did he eat them?
@@TheVanillatechmy first thought was do you mean the budgies?
@@jaynowhere 🤪
At 5:40 you get a sense of his competitive nature by his replies. I met him he was a really nice guy but could tell he was a winner and had what it took too. Lots of mind games were played he said!
Yeah, you're right. At that level, you had to have a competitive nature, and a drive to give it everything.
He may not have brought back an Olympic medal at his peak, but I believe a few of the records he broke back then still stand to this day.
A great role model, with no modern airs and graces.
@@analogueman123456787 agreed, a top bloke. He was a proper alpha male.
@@jpip1382the type they hate today. By they i mean useless little losers.
Once turned Xmas lights on with Linda Nolan in Heckmondwike mid 80s...
Good god almighty
(5:10) I wonder where they stored.. housed all that food?!
380 tins of pilchards, let alone the other stuff.
Regardless, they sat down and ate at the table together.
Wise investment.
I was 11 months old!
Would love to know what he thinks of the current state of policing (and police!) in England now.
I can certainly guess what he would think about it.
I went to school with him. Not a bad bloke 👍
If I remember he used to do after dinner speaking and you could book him to appear at lots of things
My late father worked for a large company from 1959 till retirement in 1990
The sales conferences back in the late 1970’s were spent in 5* hotels and one time they booked Geoff as their entertainment
I bet there were some great stories told
🇬🇧🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴👍 👍 ❤️❤️
15 quid a week for the meat and food of a strongmans diet?? Fantastic Give me a time machine haha the good old days
I grew up while he was at the peak of his game, but I never knew he was a copper.
Look at them trainers, old style addidas
Remember the Torsion Bars? :D
Don't make em like they used to. I could run at 55mph with Torsion bars...
@@TheVanillatech you couldnt
@@paulmcdonough1093 I could I swear down!
Geoff was and still is a national treasure, im a firm believer that he was never juiced up, an absolute unit of a man and a brilliant athlete, imagine been caught robbing something back in the 70s, and having him breathing down your neck lol
legend when i was a lad
South Lincs finest.
Being close to Norfolk, you can hear the similarities in the accent.
@@Liofa73ah he’s one of us, we’re all brothers of the fen!
"Look at him. Look at Geoff Woade. His head must weigh fifty pounds on its own."
How did he catch that budgie in his hands without turning it into mushy peas?
Budgie Whisperer. The budgies, in the end, made him "Lord Of All Budgies" and even to this day, they say his name with reverence...
Like most throwing sports you need great technique. I used to run for Cambridge Harriers and on a Sunday Steve Blackley would give us 14 year olds javelin throwing lessons. Then when we threw javelins in PE everyone was shocked that the small, skinny kid could throw nearly as far as our teacher. Considering I beat the teachers cross country time the previous year my games lessons from then on I resembled Billy in Kes for what I went through for the next 3 years.
The irony that my father was a friend of Brian Glover (at Battersea park) wasn't something I discovered until later in life.
@@jaynowhere My GOD bro can you stop talking about yourself for FIVE DAMN MINUTES?
@@TheVanillatech I thought it was quite interesting. 😆
Brilliant body builder,he boy the boy for Anold.
Apparently his diet would have him dead by 45. As predicted by many 'experts' in the 70's. Funny except he's now around 74 or 75.
@@peternagy-im4be Very funny that big difference to 45,than 70,to 75 30 years like,go's to prove how wrong they can be,I seen him on TV,he was like the Hulk lol.He would put Arnold to bed lol,he would probably pick him up of is feet,being 6ft 5,or 6,and Arnold is 6ft 2 few inches difference,and difference in size and strength.👍
Interesting to see what his diet was.
At 9:34 we can understand Geoff’s frustration; UK only started talent spotting 38 years later in sports and other physical activity disciplines.
Is that the same in English football? They never win anything or even look like winning anything.
As a kid I think he was also pretty quick.
He is fit. The guys today cannot talk without getting out of breath.
He was the kid at school who grew a tash in the 1st year😆
In primary school.....
Can you imagine having to use the bathroom after this man?
There'd be no toilet left.
Correction 36 years later (give or take)*
You Budgie Smuggler.
Before Lou Ferrigno was a global icon, Geoff was the king💪😂
Ferringo did very well at WSM, up against some serious Powerlifters, despite him being a professional body builder. Geoff was just a true athlete with great core strength, who adapted well to the sport. Very tactical and cerebral, he used his strengths and uderstood his weaknesses. Hence, TWO TIME world champion.
Great guy.
@@TheVanillatech '77 he was a global star because of Bruce Banner
@@davidcarrol110 Yeah sure he was famous cos of the Hulk etc, and in the bodybuilding world being the closest competitor to Arnold. But I'm talking about his strength! It was very significant considering his bodybuilding background.
Those guys don't train for strength, they train lighter weights for muscle defintion. But Lou did well in a field of extremely strong men.
Is he still doing well?
My parents took Me to meet Him at Colwyn Bay Mountain Zoo when I was a little lad, He was very rude to Me and other kids that day! They say never meet your heroes! Always watched and rooted for him on world strongest man but never cared for him afterwards. A few hours later He tried to act polite but no one could be bothered with him! That was roughly 40 years ago. Maybe he was having a bad day or something! A proper big head He was that day to be honest.
I had no idea he was a copper.
Sports nutrition has certainly come on from back then. Much more interesting food choices, rather than the bland types of grey we used to eat.
One day, working at a potato merchant's I lifted over 50 metric tonnes! 25kg potato sacks from a conveyor belt to a pallet to be stacked. Only one or two paces but over 50 tonnes nonetheless!
Did the same, conveyor belt to weighing station, two bags, one filling, when one bag filled, flip the flap to start filling the other, pull full bag off, fit a fresh bag, then thump the 25kg bag on the floor to settle the potatoes, crimp up the top of the bag , put a wire tie round , crimp it up, place on a ton pallet you were building, turn round and the next bag was nearly full, ,....repeat all day.....until my hands got hard there'd be blood stains on the bags of tatties from my skinned knuckles.
You are what you eat. Would never get that size on salads.
Nobody achieved anything on salad , grains , oats , most fruit and veg is not really compatible with the human digestive system and most is loaded with toxins , the few nutrients are few and not really bio available to humans without fermentation . The diet most suitable for the human body is carnivore , that’s how we evolved - doctors rarely tell you this because the majority know very little about diet or real health and their recommendations have proven unfortunately wrong - look at all diseases out of control with modern diets and the amount of drugs dispensed !! It’s not what nature intended ! , this 5 a day and eat your veg is pure BS with no scientific or medical proof - ignore the main stream so called experts and study the body , evolution and carnivore or ketovore or paleo and you will know it exceeds all other diets for health and performance and lifespan , of course a long with physical work .
@@orange1666Exactly. The experts said Capes wouldn't make 50.
…. Psalm 103:14
“For he knoweth our frame; he remembereth that we are dust.”….
Geoff had his budgies and Mike Tyson had his pigeons
About 30 years ago I was at a fete with my sister. Geoff was there and took a fancy by slapping her bottom really hard. She took it in good humour but said it really hurt at the time.
Nowadays some moron would try and get him arrested which just about sums up today's joke society. Capes must look around and feel physically sick regarding this pathetic society.
Red meat and dairy is a super food! This guy is living proof. Could you imagine capes with todays sad excuse for coppers in the gym?
James Hunt was one as well , weird, is there a pattern for chatterists ?
12k calories a day wow that is impressive to me
Geoff Capes reminded me a lot of my ex wife, Wendy. Strong, ambitious but sadly, had a moustache.
Amazing how if it wasn’t for the eastern block drug cheats he would have been a multiple Olympic champion
£15 in '76 today is £135.71p that's just his meat intake 🤯
Er, no it's not. It would be £97.99. Back to school for you.
That time when 6ft 5 and 110kg+ was gigantic. Now it’s just average for a heavyweight boxer.
He was about 140kg, so still pretty gigantic by today's standards.
Extraordinary comment and of course incorrect.
free all birds !! free all animals !!
Gl affording that diet in 2024....
He must've had to invest in a good toilet plunger after eating all that food
Amazing video…
Geoff capes the legend…
The most important item of his video away from his amazing Olympic status etc, is Geoff carrying out the required PT training of the police officers…
There all stripped off being beasted… not like todays snowflakes… today we would have, the horrible PT Instructor has made me take my top
Off… not one fat copper there!
When the police weren’t Woke and broke 😢
Meat alone 15quid a week. More like 15 quid a day now.
geoff seems like a nice guy came to my school ripped a phone book in half, i worked for capes security, whoever the relative is that runs that company is a bully and not a nice person at all.
I can rip A WHOLE PAGE of a telephone directory in half. Now that is strong.
I bumped into him in Battersea park around 1977, I looked up and burst into tears. I don't think Geoffs feet ever recovered from that deluge.
Sorry Geoff, from Geordies son.
It's all about the pilchards. Pilchards FTW. (No need for rice cakes)
Geoff capes knew moor about budgies than any man alive and had birds worth millions
I remember hearing several times people killed Geoffs birds
Hell of a diet init 🤐
Innit guvnor
Warm milk while training, sheesh
he went to the zoo and the animals ran because geoff was let out of his cage!
"Asmer"
But what about slavery and climate change?
Apparently he's still constipated to this day 🥩🥚🥴
Goes to show just how much bollocks that BMI bullshit is. You know when you’re fit.
The days when policemen still actually had to be fit to join, not like the sorry looking mess you see on the streets today - blobs or 5ft5 individuals who wouldn’t scare a fly.
The bit about Russian athletes getting everything they need - he didn’t mention all the steroids as well 😂
Wonder what steroids he took
Who cares?