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Mark Ronson samples athletes for London 2012 Olympics song
Published Friday, Sep 30 2011, 10:58 BST | By Lewis Corner | Add comment

The producer recorded the sounds while the athletes were working towards competing in the London 2012 Olympics next July.
The song, which is part of Coca Cola's global Move To The Beat campaign for the sporting event, includes lyrics from dubstep breakthrough artist Katy B.
It has been described as an "uplifting track that fuses the sounds of Olympic sports with the beat of London music", reports The Mirror.
British table tennis player Darius Knight was recorded for the song while practising the sport in London.
Ronson explained: "Darius has this very unusual sound. It is great. Sometimes he uses it to put off his opponents and sometimes it is a sound of victory - to me it sounded like James Brown so I knew I would use that."
The producer also used sounds from Russian sprinter Kseniya Vdovina by taping microphones to her ankles and other parts of her body to get recordings of her heartbeat.
Mexican taekwondo star Maria Espinoza's best sounds were "the screams and the grunts that she made when she was kicking the crap out of somebody", Ronson added.
Dayyan Jaffar, an archer from Singapore, contributed the whistling sound of an arrow after microphones were positioned 20 meters apart to record its flight.
Ronson confirmed that he will be working with a 110m hurdler from the US in the coming weeks.
A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the track will be released by Coca Cola at a later date.
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