BBC Archive | 1976: GEOFF CAPES and his MOUNTAINOUS DAILY MENU | BBC Archive @BBCArchive | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
"Feeding Capes is rather like stoking a human furnace."

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. There, he saw the stockpiles of food required to fuel Capes' 12,000-calorie, high-protein daily diet, dutifully prepared by his wife, Jill.

Clip taken from Nationwide, originally broadcast on BBC One, Wednesday 9 June, 1976.




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