olympic bmx champion charlotte worthington becomes the latest athlete to defend british cycling's controversial and welcome to tonight's sportsday. on the eve of the biggest tournament in rugby league history, a world cup featuring the men's, women's and wheelchair tournaments — with the world's best players competing on english soil. and, as adam wild reports, it's hoped it will inspire a new generation. as the rugby league world finally assembles, there is in order to be found here somewhere. there has never been a world cup quite like this one. for england, a real sense that this is their tournament. it's been a longtime coming. we been a long time coming. we definitely _ been a long time coming. we definitely can _ been a longtime coming. - definitely can win at a world cup, especially with it being on our home soil. we will get cheered on all the way by our great supporters and hopefully introduce new people to this game and inspire the next generation and get people playing this game because it's moments like these that can crop up and end up becoming some of the best of your life. ,, . .

silence since announcing a controversial new partnership with oil giant shell, 0lympic champion charlotte worthingtonway of holding shell accountable. i know there�*s been mixed reactions and there is a little bit of contrast between the environment and those arguments. but i much see it as a british cycling can help improve shell, their direction of looking after the environment in the future, much like bmx freestyle is very much the opposite of track cycling when we joined british cycling when we joined british cycling and we managed to improve ourselves in that area.— ourselves in that area. there has been a lot _ ourselves in that area. there has been a lot of _ ourselves in that area. there has been a lot of criticism _ ourselves in that area. there has been a lot of criticism from - ourselves in that area. there has - been a lot of criticism from members of your own kind of body, your organisation, some members saying they will leave because they don�*t want british cycling to give a platform to an oil giant, given british cycling was my own environmental outlook, what would you say to them? i