Sport Relief Mandela outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria, covering , in temperatures in excess of , and raising £1,648,087. He had attempted this effort in 2012, but was forced to back out due to health concerns. In 2014, Davina McCall took on a Sport Relief challenge to raise money for the appeal. This was called "Davina: Beyond Breaking Point", which saw the presenter tackle bike riding, running and swimming for seven days as she travelled from the north of the country (outside Edinburgh Castle) to the end (in Central London). Alex Jones also took part in a Sport Relief challenge which
Sport Relief In 2006 David Walliams swam the English Channel to raise money for Sport Relief. He trained for 9 months with Professor Greg Whyte of the English Institute for Sport and was also helped by the "King of the Channel", Mike Read, chairman of the Channel Swimming Association. Walliams' feat was documented for a BBC programme called "Little Britain's Big Swim". David also swam the Gibraltar Strait for the 2008 campaign. In 2006, the BBC staged a celebrity elimination show jumping competition called "Only Fools on Horses", which raised over £250,000. On 26 July 2009, Eddie Izzard began running a series