the here to tell you you have won the award. cheering 0h award. cheering oh wow, oh thank you! that's brilliant. thank you very much. a brilliant story about youngsters being brought into sport, but what about the other way around? in 2015, molly summerhayes was crowned junior world champion in skiing's halfpipe event but she's announced her retirement from the sport, after finding out she will not get funding for the next olympic cycle. shejoins me now... you'rejust 21... why have you felt you had to do this? it was just getting quite hard finding myself like i have been for the last four or five years, and it was a joint decision between me and my mum and my dad saying that if i didn't get it this year, there would be it, and i'm 0k didn't get it this year, there would be it, and i'm ok with that. what sort of money are we talking about, what would it take for you and your family to keep you involved in the sport? quite a lot, ithink

family to keep you involved in the sport? quite a lot, i think dad said about £15,000 a year, but it can be more than that, depends how many competitions you do a year and how much travelling buddy can do quite a lot. you finished 17th in pyeongchang with room to improve — do you think the system has let you down by not being able to support you more? i don't really want to say let me down, but i do feel i have a lot more to give and i have not been given that opportunity to. but again, iam given that opportunity to. but again, i am going to support all my other fellow athletes who have the funding. it is just something other fellow athletes who have the funding. it isjust something i did not have any control over. do you think winter sports have shown here that it might be for people who are more well off first you have mentioned the amount already. they can't support a family that was already raising £15,000 a year from what for people that can not manage that? i don't think so, all the people who i ski with, everyone is

working hard to put themselves on the slopes, parents working hard all the slopes, parents working hard all the time. we are all from the same background and i don't think it really matters where you come from 01’ really matters where you come from or how much money you have, to be honest. and very quicklyjust before we go, what next, what do you plan to do next? i really want to join the police, that is what i'm looking into next, i don't know why, just the thought of helping someone, but i will still be skiing, still be up on the mountain. fantastic attitude and we wish you best of luck with your future endeavours. thank you very much. that is all from sports day but we will be here throughout the evening. you are watching bbc news. let's get more 110w you are watching bbc news. let's get more now on the news that

investigators say the helicopter that crashed, killing leicester city's chairman and for others, spun out of control after a mechanism became disconnected. the helicopter was climbing normally for about a0 seconds before it started go into a downward spin. crashing into the king power stadium —— nearthe downward spin. crashing into the king power stadium —— near the king power stadium. it then burst into flame on impact, killing all those on board. investigators have raised this diagram. it shows the actual mechanism connecting the helicopter fozz matt taylor rotor blades with the pilot's pedals. it showed they had become disconnected, which effectively meant that the aircraft turned in control of the to the right. with me now is david cleave, who is an aviation safety researcher at loughborough university. thank you for coming in, we have been talking about this for the last five weeks. we understand there was a disconnect, just august through that, because this is a preliminary report. what is this finding, what

have they discovered? the finding is what went wrong, not wired has gone wrong, so what went wrong, not wired has gone wrong, so the first thing is to confirm it was a failure in the tail rotor system, and that backs up the emergency directives they have issued to check other helicopters of similar make and design. what they have now said is that one night at the back of the helicopter was over tightened at some point in the process , tightened at some point in the process, either by a human being in assembly or in maintenance, or it has been caught on something and over tighten from that. they will look at everything, they have not been specific in that area, they will look at why that has happened but it effectively broke the connection between the pilot's pedals and the tail rotor at the end of the tail boom. a similar thing happened with the red arrows pilot who died, there was an over tightening of the night, is that right? yep. so how closely do the

manufacturers work with companies who are using, i believe it is leonardo, is that right, the italian manufacturer, how closely do they give instructions as to how these helicopters should be maintained? very precise instructions are written down with exactly the setting that should be used on the torque wrench to set it exactly, in the same way as when you are tightening the wheel nuts on your car after changing a tyre, you tighten them a certain amount or you tighten them a certain amount or you tighten them a certain amount or you tighten them really tight and you can't get them off later. it is meant to be set so there is some rotation available but unfortunately that has been over tightened and led to this catastrophic failure. the augusta westland, how often do they go through safety checks, mots? could this have been picked up?m could only have been picked up on special maintenance checks. helicopters have an awful lot of

checks, not just the helicopters have an awful lot of checks, notjust the annual check the 30 day cycle or something like that, they will have a specific time of flight that they have to go and check these particular components. i don't know whether the helicopter has been flying an awful lot since it has been manufactured or whether it has been manufactured or whether it was recently new, and may never have been checked, but every helicopter has been subjected to an emergency inspection at the moment. the thing i think has really caught people's attention is how quickly that helicopter burst into flames. is that normal? unfortunately, it is a catastrophic accident. we will wait to see whether they were killed by the impact itself or the bursting into flames. there is a lot of pressure at the moment looking at helicopter bursting into flames, as we saw in the inquest yesterday with the grand canyon helicopter, and the crashworthiness of the fuel tanks, but certainly it is a very hard impact, it is impossible for the pilot to control this type of failure in the helicopter, so then

it isa failure in the helicopter, so then it is a question of pure fortune whether they survive or not, but they will be looking at crashworthiness in helicopter fuel ta nks crashworthiness in helicopter fuel tanks as well. there is a lot more to do in this investigation. thank you very much for that. thank you. you are watching bbc news, some breaking news concerning the brexit abates. itv is reporting it has scrapped plans to host a televised brexit debate between theresa may and jeremy corbyn on sunday. so there had been a lot of attention on this series of debates, but itv here reportedly saying it has scrapped its plans to host a televised brexit debate between theresa may and jeremy corbyn on sunday. more on that as and when we get it. ok, time for the weather now with louise lear. 0ur weather has been very

changeable, we have gone from a cloudy mild theme today. tomorrow will be a stormy one as we season heavy rain and severe gales starting to push in from the atlantic. it looks as though the worst rainfall will be across south—west england and wales, some of it quite heavy but the strong as of the wind is a lwa ys but the strong as of the wind is always further north, wrapping itself around that area of low pressure. the north coast of northern ireland and the west coast of scotland, gusts of wind is in excess of 70 to 80 mph, which will cause some disruption i suspect first big morning. quite widely 50 to 60 mph four months of the morning as well. the rain confining itself mostly to the west but there will be a scattering of showers further east, so not a particularly pleasant start across the far north of the country. the bulk of the rain will ease away from the south—east but wendy fawell, topped temperatures on friday of eight to 10 degrees.

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