The BBC presenter addressed the problem with viewers.
During Friday’s instalment of BBC Breakfast (July 3), Naga Munchetty and Charlie Stayt spoke about England’s next match against Mexico in the early hours of Monday morning for their next World Cup match.
As Naga detailed, the team will face a ‘different kind of challenge’ during the game, due to them playing in high altitude in Mexico City, the presenters questioned how the team may be preparing ahead of the game.
The duo handed over to Peter Ruddick, who was at live from a sports centre at Leeds University, which had a room where the altitude could be adapted.
Showing a man called Tom, who was in the room on a running machine, Peter commented: “Tom is in this chamber next door, that’s going to be me a little bit later. Tom is currently in a high-altitude environment doing some training. He’s got all his stats monitoring.”
The BBC star then showed viewers a screen which showed people what was happening inside the room Tom was running in as the altitude was over 2000 with really low oxygen levels.
View 4 ImagesPeter Ruddick was live from Leeds speaking about England’s upcoming football match in Mexico City(Image: BBC)
He added: “That’s replicating a little bit of what the England players are going to be experiencing on Sunday night, early Monday morning for us. So what is the scale of the challenge?
“England are going to be playing at the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, that is more than 7,000ft above sea level, just over 2,200 metres above sea level.
“What that means in terms of the impact on their body, well, we are going to be talking about increased heart rate, shortness of breath, because of the thin air, dehydration and more intense fatigue, especially in the first 20 minutes.”
View 4 ImagesThe camera instantly froze when entering the room(Image: BBC)
As Peter told Charlie and Naga he was about to go into the high altitude room to experience the changes for himself, the camera completely froze as the cameraman entered the area.
The camera quickly cut back to the studio as viewers experienced a slight sound delay while the presenters addressed the issue.
View 4 ImagesCharlie Stayt and Naga Munchetty spoke about the tech issue on Friday’s show(Image: BBC)
Charlie said: “That was something of an experiment in itself, as we can see Peter was opening all those sealed doors inside the unit to see what it felt like inside, and I think it was a bit of a gamble as to whether it was going to carry on working, it didn’t, the signal.”
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Naga added: “Do you think the high altitude was a problem? He’ll be back!”
Luckily, the pair cut back to Peter later on in the programme, and the signal was restored as the BBC star was seen running on a machine at a high altitude.
BBC Breakfast is available to watch weekdays on BBC One from 6am