lizzie yarnold, what a performance. title. —— british athlete. successfully defend her olympic title. -- british athlete. and she joins us now. you have both of your medals here. just in case you wanted a look. we never get bored of looking at olympic gold medals. do you have a favourite between them now reflecting on your career? you made history with the second. i guess the second took a lot more work and was a lot more difficult to achieve. and i got to shared the podium with one of my best friends, laura, so that was just awesome. and out of my wildest dreams. but again thought she was a different team supporting me, a different experience. it is a team effort with the skeleton so i'm grateful for all that help. skeleton was a sport that you discovered through being good at other sports, you were pushed into the sport because you showed you had the sport because you showed you had the should for. would you have ever said yourself when someone said why not try the skeleton, that if someone not try the skeleton, that

lizzy yarnold, what a performance!knee and hip problems. i know you have had the two operations, do you feel the aches and pains or have you come through relatively unscathed ? skeleton has taught me so much about being fit and healthy in my mind and body and how to train my body and push myself. i have achieved more than i thought humanly possible, but my injuries are not necessarily because of skeleton. was it called girls for gold when you first started ? called girls for gold when you first started? people would think i cannot possibly do... they can! i did not find my sport until i was 18, i love sports but i felt like i had not found the one for me. have a go, don't limit yourself and chase your dreams. what's did they see a new when you tested for that? she is really good at that, maybe she could do this? i think it was the 30 metre sprint speed, a basic characteristic, then it was probably the mental toughness, and can she deal with it? you have done all right! i know you are you have done all right! i know you

lizzy yarnold will promote the winter olympics and urges funding to find more champions. 37 presenters, along with dogs, cats, and tortoises, entertain and educate children for more than 5,000 episodes. here are a few highlights from the progamme‘s six decades on air — and a warning, this footage contains some flashing images. hello there. hello. hello! welcome to live blue peter! i think this is the first time i've shampooed a camel. hold onto that. 0h! get off my foot! that was a very scary moment. i'm up 20,000 feet and i'm upside down! and here it is, tracy. your very own blue peter silver badge. this might be the proudest day of my life. that is fantastic. here is your very own gold blue peter badge. applause it is the best day of my life. yeah! that was wicked! woohoo! whoa! i‘m abseiling off blackpool tower. ready to skydive? 0ur entertainment correspondent colin paterson is at the blue peter studio in salford. i never got a blue peter badge, did you get one? not yet, but maybe dolittle port, i will be able to get one “— dolittle port, i will be able to get one ——

announcing her retirement, double olympic skeleton champion lizzie yarnold criticised the world anti—dopingyear ban on russia. she won her first olympic title at sochi, where it emerged russia had carried out the systematic mass doping of its athletes. she would like to stay in sport to help in the fight against drugs cheats. there are boards i could hope to apply to be on and continue to have the voice of the athlete represented and remind people that we have to protect athletes especially when we are talking about anti—doping issues, we have to keep banging the drum and protect clean and fair competition. it is important use the platform i have is an olympic athlete and make sure our voices are heard even though it feels like not being heard, we have to continue the fight. engand face sri lanka in the third odi tomorrow in kandy. the first was a wash out, but they took a 1—0 lead in another rain—affected match in dambulla, with three left to play. the good news for england ahead of the world cup next summer on home soil, moeen ali believes he's coming into the peak of his career. the ment

coming up on bbc news, sliding to a stop, lizzie yarnold retires from skeleton and we find out what isre born in the uk with parts missing from their oesophagus, the tube that connects your mouth to your stomach. repairing it requires complex surgery and causes many of them problems for life. but now scientists in london have managed to grow one that is capable of the muscle contractions needed to move food down into the stomach. our medical correspondent fergus walsh has been talking to the scientists at great ormond street hospital and the francis crick institure who are behind it. suspended in the middle of this glass jar is a laboratory—grown oesophagus. you can see the wave—like contractions of the muscle. the oesophagus is a muscular tube which carries food down into the stomach. in this animal study, scientists stripped a rat oesophagus of its cells, leaving a collagen scaffold. they seeded it with several cell types, which form muscles, nerves and the delicate lining tissue. the ability to contract is essential for moving food through the organ. the work, published in nature co

the double olympic skeleton champion lizzie yarnold believes the world anti—doping agency were too quicknd the three—year ban last month. in my opinion it wasn't the right thing to do. we have to keep pushing the anti—doping message. i don't think it was correct to let them back without their completing all of the things they were asked to complete. it is a real changing world, but we have to keep pushing for a clean and fair competition. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. including the england rugby union squad which hasjust including the england rugby union squad which has just been announced. jonah holmes is in there. he qualifies through a welsh grandparent. i'm back in half an hour. thank you. here are some of the other stories this lunch time. more than 2,500 organised crime groups are operating across england and wales and police say children as young as 10 are at risk of being drawn into them. gangs of criminals involved in drugs and violence are often targeting vulnerable young people to carry out criminal activities. i

double olympic skeleton champion lizzie yarnold, who has announced her retirement late last night, hasing to do. i think we have to keep pushing the anti—doping message. it is not ok to sway away from that so i don't think it was correct to let them back without completing the things they were asked to complete. it isa things they were asked to complete. it is a changing world but we have to keep pushing for a clean and fair competition. johanna konta looks to be finishing her troubled season on a high. she knocked out the seventh seed elise mertens in the opening round of the kremlin cup in moscow, winning in straight sets. it's konta's first match since she split from her coach michaeljoyce last week. she's working with frenchman dimitri zavialoff on a trial basis at this event. a good first impression for him. that's all the sport for now. thank you. there has been a surge in hate crime directed at people because of their religious beliefs. new figures from the police in england and wales show an increase of 40% on the year before. more than half of the offences were aimed at muslim

this follows the retirement of lizzy yarnold. she will complete —— compete...ank you. our business correspondent victoria fritz is in sheffield where she‘s been gauging the reaction to yesterday‘s announcements. (tx sot) all the headlines this morning are about austerity coming to an end. this on the yorkshire post. we are in sheffield this morning. talking about what this means for you and her business. i am joined by a number of guests. wets start with vicky pryce, the economist. when will austerity and ? vicky pryce, the economist. when will austerity and? the economy is still growing. investment has been slow picking up. the chancellor is putting money back into the economy that he has been getting through more taxes than he expected to be receiving. that is good news. but in reality there have been some huge cuts in departmental budgets over the years. we wait to see what happens in the spending review. hopefully from 2020 or more may start to see an increase in the money the government spends on day—to—day running of their departments. i think that will b

skeleton olympic champion lizzie yarnold is retiring from the sport. new chapter in her life and that she began contemplating her future not long after winning that second gold medal. i tried not to get my head thinking about retirement before it, because it such an important race, i wanted to make sure i totally was focussed on that. after, i think there was a couple of injuries and i was ill and ididn't want couple of injuries and i was ill and i didn't want to retire thinking it was a bad result or because i'm injured. so i've had an amazing summer of ra of rehab. now i can sit back and realise i'm proud of having an amazing ten years. the thai football team who were rescued after two weeks trapped in a flooded cave have been given a brilliant surprise. the 12 boys and their coach were appearing on the ellen degeneres show when zlatan ibrahimovic stepped out to meet them — they'd just told ellen that he was their idol. this team is more braver than me and they showed their collective teamwork and they had patience, faith and believe in other hands a

double 0lympic skeleton champion lizzie yarnold, who announced her retirement, has criticised the world0lympic title at sochi where it emerged russia had carried out the systematic mass doping of its athletes. she would like to stay in sport to help in the fight against drugs cheats. there are boards i could hope to apply to be on and continue to have the voice of the athlete represented and remind people that we have to protect athletes especially when we are talking about anti—doping issues, we have to keep banging the drum and protect clean and fair competition. it is important use the platform i have is an olympic athlete and make sure our voices are heard even though it feels like not being heard, we have to continue the fight. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. still goalless between the republic of ireland and wales. i will be back more with an update at 1030. the president of the european council, donald tusk, has called for theresa may to come up with "concrete proposals" to break the deadlock in the brexit negotiation

double 0lympic skeleton champion lizzie yarnold, who announced her retirement late last night, has criticisedd like to stay in sport to help in the fight against drugs cheats. there are boards i can hopefully apply to be on and continue to have the voice of the athletes represented, and remind people that we have to protect athletes, especially when we are talking about anti—doping issues. we have to protect fair and clean competition but i think it is still important to use the platform i have as an 0lympic athlete and make sure our voices are heard, even though sometimes it feels like they are not being heard, we have to continue to fight. that‘s all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. silent film footage from the first world war has been carefully crafted into a new film by the distinguished director sir peterjackson. the archive footage has been combined with original interviews with soldiers who fought in the war. they shall not grow old — which has its world premiere tonight — is being released in cinemas across the uk to mark 100 years si

lizzy yarnold is retiring from skeleton.n the parallel bars and will miss... that is all the sports honour. theresa may will try to rally ministers behind her this morning at the start of a critical 48 hours for brexit. the pm is meeting her top team in downing st right now to update them on negotiations for leaving the european union and to see which members of her cabinet still back her. perhaps ominously, a number of them had a pre—cabinet meeting last night — over pizza. let's speak to norman smith now, our political guru. who was at the pizza gathering? well, there were eight cabinet minister is there, so about a third of the cabinet turned up at the meeting in andrea leadsom's office. there were some of the prominent brexiteers but also, there were some theresa may's loyalists, some of the swing voices in the cabinet, so people like jeremy hunt, swing voices in the cabinet, so people likejeremy hunt, michael gove, chris grayling, which suggests the disquiet in the cabinet is now beginning to ripple out from beyond the

that then ensured the funding for the next four years, which basically allowed lizzy yarnold to exists! you are commentating for the bbc at the winter olympics. you are thriving and you still love the sport. is that fair? definitely! yes, i laugh about it, i did move into a bungalow but notjust because there were no stairs. that is a funny consequence. i have great views and i love it here. going up and down four flights of stairs when you have had knee operations is not fun, which is whyjokingly we live ina fun, which is whyjokingly we live in a bungalow, yes. but i am about to go off and do a session in a minute because i love exercise and i love taking on cycling challenges andi love taking on cycling challenges and i love doing everything. if it means that my knees are a little bit cranky for a few days afterwards and a bit sore, and i have got to go to the chiropractor quite a lot and keep my body intact, then so be it. i still stay very positive and dialogue staying fit. that is a massive part of my life still. it has been a pleasure talking to you. winter olympic gold medallist