nesta mcgregor, bbc news, east london.european success is west ham — they have a tough trip to the bundesliga leaders leverkusen tonight in the first leg of their europa league quarterfinal. meanwhile liverpool are hoping to send jurgen klopp off with european glory at the end of his final season in charge. the europa league is the one major trophy he's yet to win there, with atalanta the visitors to anfield tonight. it didn't look like that it would be involved in international football at all. from the moment on where we saw the chance to get into the european league, we were really desperate to do so and you only do that when you are liverpool because you want to win the competition. only great teams are left in the competition, it's really outstanding. and we know what atalanta is all about, and it's difficult to play against italian teams, it always was. they are tactically super disciplined, and super dangerous in a lot of areas so we have to be at our best. just one british side left in the europa conference league,

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thank you, nesta mcgregor, live in east london.o cash — for some. winners in athletic, will, for the first time, get prize money — almost £40,000 — as dan roan explains. it's an enormous one. my goodness me, it's an enormous one. athletics has provided the olympics with some of its most iconic moments. jessica ennis is the olympic champion! and this summer, it is set to make history, its governing body today announcing it will become the first international federation to award prize money at the games. a total of almost £2 million made available at the paris olympics, with gold medallists each receiving £39,000. i think it is a very simple proposition, and that is that as our sport grows, and it has grown well in the last year or two, and we have brought more sponsors on board, that this isjust a recognition that the athletes are the stars of the show. we are growing the sport in order to give them a more financially viable landscape and hopefully a more secure future. in response, the international olympic committee said it redist

nesta mcgregor, bbc news.aye o'hara will become the only person in a wheelchair to compete in the event tomorrow. natalie pirks has been to meet her. i felt my life was over, and i've wanted to die a few times. and since he's come along, he's just give me everything back. this is a story of perseverance, passion, and a very special bond. you just want food, don't you? from the age of five, horses were faye 0'hara's life. but a car accident at 15 years old changed everything. we hit head on with another car. i severed my spinal cord and i was critical for about six weeks. i was in a coma for three and they were calling my family up all the time to say, "this is it. we're turning machines off." eight months i was in hospital, altogether. now paralysed from the chest down, with only the use of her left arm, for seven years after her accident, she shunned anything to do with horses. but then majestic came along — a horse she trained from a foal. go on, back. i've created this bond. i've actually educated a horse f

our sports correspondent nesta mcgregor is outside the copper box in london nesta — a huge night fore copper box arena holds 6000 and we are expecting it to be a near sell—out, with history potentially in the making. the maths is simple, the lands trailed basic checks —— besiktas, when by eight and the lift the trophy, when by seven and it was to overtime, anything less and they don't pull it off. it is worth saying that lands dominated domestically, impressive with four championships in the last for years, and also domestic cups to go with it. we have been inside to watch the players training, they seem laser focused. very tough task ahead, no british team has ever been to in the final of a european championship, let alone win it. the atmosphere inside the copper box arena will be electric tonight, and we are going to speak to someone who is part of the team all achievement season, and knows them better,. sam, what chance do you give the london lions up enough tonight?— do you give the london lions up enough tonight? they have a good chance, enough tonight? they have a good chance.

nesta mcgregor went to see him in his new gear. for jumping from. commonwealth, european, world and at tokyo 2020, olympic champion. after starting diving at age seven, he is now 29 and going into his fifth games. incredible when you consider he'd been away from the sport for two years. now content with life as a husband, father and avid knitter, he says he is heading to paris to professionally relaxed as he's ever been. , ., ., ., been. used to torture through the whole experience _ been. used to torture through the whole experience because - been. used to torture through the whole experience because you i been. used to torture through the i whole experience because you want to do well so badly that you put everything on the line and i think that's the difference this time around, not been diving for two years, so i think for me, it's all excitement right now. how much loner excitement right now. how much longer have _ excitement right now. how much longer have you _ excitement right now. how much longer have you got _ excitement

nesta mcgregor was watching. against the odds, conquerors of the continent.nes almost in front but as the engineers, emotions boiled over. restrict us coach sent to the locker room for disagreeing with the referee. at the final whistle, london lions 81—70 restrict us. the london lions 81—70 restrict us. the london lions 81—70 restrict us. the london lions dominated domestically but now a step further, the champions of europe! and achievements which many think could change the fortunes of british basketball. brute change the fortunes of british basketball.— change the fortunes of british basketball. ~ ., ., , basketball. we have so many young children here _ basketball. we have so many young children here watching _ basketball. we have so many young children here watching us _ basketball. we have so many young children here watching us play, - basketball. we have so many young| children here watching us play, boys and girls, they are going to have those players to look up to that we didn't necessarily have when we were younger. i think that in itself is incred