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long jump champion greg rutherford says it'll be emotional when he jumps for the last time in a stadiumedals, including an olympic gold in 2012, will compete at the diamond league meeting in birmingham on saturday, before a final appearance in newcastle in september. he visited bbc sport today to talk retirement, dina asher—smith and the the team park run event he's taking part in over the next few weeks. the park run is something i got involved in last year and 200 athletes, olympians and paralympians will get involved with local park i’u ns will get involved with local park runs all over the uk and it is happening over the next four weeks which should be exciting so for anybody who has not done one, the next few weekends a good opportunity to experience it. you compete in birmingham this weekend and you said it will be your last outing as a professional athlete. you have talked about retirement, but has it come earlier than planned? yes and no. for need, when i look at the last time i competed for great britain was the olympics in 2016 and since then i have had so many injuries and i

thank you to my co—presenter greg rutherford. racing history should be made this week with markjohnston set to become the most successful british trainer of all time — beating the mark set by richard hannon. sports correspondent andy swiss has been to meet him. at his training base in yorkshire, a man with history in his sights. mark johnston started out as a vet in glasgow but switched his attention to racing with extraordinary results. this win on sunday was his 4190th as a trainer, the brink of a new british record. it has been some journey. johnston's first winner was backin journey. johnston's first winner was back in 1987 and, three decades on, times have changed since then stop the most abiding memory is coming home and watching teletext, putting the results on teletext and having nothing else on the television or might. because there were no racing channels in those days. i had huge ambitions to train lots of good winners but i don't know i was thinking 4194. he has trained more than 100 winners here in each of the last 2

greg rutherford joins us now in the studio.he problem! and running! thejunior guess that is the problem! and running! the junior partner and has the —— the junior parkrun —— thejunior parkrun has become as big a thing? it is only two kilometres, a bit shorter for them but they have a blast. my little one is about to turn four and he's keen to be involved as well. i'm quite excited, although it is raining outside, it will be quite interesting to go and get involved. lots of people have been sending in pictures this morning, thank you for them, and then doing parkrun. a lot of people‘s lives have been changed by it. why are 0lympians involved? it's an opportunity to give back a little bit. a lot of people involved are part of the national lottery as well. when we go to the olympics, thatis well. when we go to the olympics, that is often funded by the general public. this gives us the opportunity to give back and have fun. there's a disconnect at times where you see the sports people on tv that you never get to meet them. it is on

coming up on sportsday on bbc news: britain's long jump champion greg rutherford talks to us about hisatheltics ahead of the birmingham diamond league meeting on saturday. many people will be getting their exam results this week, but an increasing number are choosing vocational courses over traditional a—levels. today, it was the turn of thousands of students to get their btec results. the qualifications are career—focused, but can also be used to gain entry to university. steph mcgovern reports. when it comes to education, it's not all about gcses and a—levels. these are some of the millions of people studying vocational qualifications. and it's everything from robotics, catering, performing arts, engineering, hairdressing, we've got sport, and health and social care — to name a few. top marks today would be students getting d*s — distinction stars. hi, guys, how have you done? tell me what you've got, go on. er, i've done great. i've got d*, d*, d* over my three years, doing sports science, so it's really good. what next for you? er, i'm off to the states at the end of this year for

birmingham — inclduing the last appearance from britain's olympic and world long jump champion greg rutherfordinate the headlines over the next few days, another match is taking centre stage today — it's between a side made up of test match special commentators and a celebrity tailenders side at derby. and they're called tailenders for a reason as you can see from the very first ball of the match as former england spinner monty panesar wasw clean bowled by tms broadcaster charles dagnall, who we should mention did bowl for warwickshire and leicestershire in his previous occupation. so these are live pictures from derby on the bbc red button. the likes of former love island contestant chris hughes, singer felix white, former strictly star harryjudd, and some other former sports stars such as becky adlington, wes brown and rachel yankey. at the moment they need 80 yard, 85, to win the match, and you can follow that on the bbc sport website and app. west brom showing exactly why he was a football player and not a cricketer! —— wears brown showing. —— wes brown. and just before we go, the nordia m

britain's most successful long jumper, greg rutherford, is going to be here later to tell us why he's we were going to see him doa i thought we were going to see him do a long jump. we'd love to hear from you if you've done a parkrun this weekend. did you manage to grab a selfie with any famous faces? the first image on the left was last summer the first image on the left was last summer when she did the first part one and a second, this summer. she says she has achieved her third personal best in a row. she looks great. it looks like she is enjoying it. do stay with us. the headline is coming up. hello, this is breakfast, with rachel burden and roger johnson. good morning. here is a summary of today's main stories from bbc news: a 29—year—old man has been charged with two counts of attempted murder after a car hit people outside the houses of parliament on tuesday. salih khater, who was born in sudan and was living in birmingham, will appear before magistrates tomorrow. three people were injured when the car crashed into security barriers in westminster. indian rescuers in helicopter