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to sports now it's been 4 years since germany's lalaloopsy one golden beach volleyball at the rio olympics now think is now playing with a new pot. a former indoor volleyball player after long poles due to the pandemic the 2 are competing once again. to medal time this to see who spoke more and i'm sure it will be a. competition wherever they can get but finally they're back on the sand gold medalist laura good for her new partner make it closer. when the decision to postpone the elim picks the signs and say oh i was like was everything we did for nothing so the several weeks of a relaxed training schedule followed there was no pressure and enjoyed it but from a good cause of the pandemic stirred up fears from her past nightmares even panic attacks that came after her mother died of cancer. does the entire if i phone my believe that's a part of my life i realized during that experience what she really meant. because of work hard to deal with that fear for years sports helped by putting her to the test every day feed me if i asked myself whether i was missing something why am i insecure it'

spotlight for an entirely different reason as footage of pita taufatofua's oiled—up torso from the rio olympicnt viral around the world. but who is the real tongan warrior? well, i've come to his homeland to find out and discover his new target for tokyo 2020. tonga! being a tongan is about heart, it's about the spirit. where i grew up... tonga! ..where we're from. there's a lot of pride with being a tongan. when i have the opportunity to represent a country — my mother is australian, my father is tongan — i have to choose tongan because that's where the roots lie. that's where the heart is. we call it the spirit of tonga. this is why tongans are the best flag—bearers in the world. the flag at the olympics is light. this thing is where we get the strength to hold it from. one of the big things in tongan culture is eating and sharing meals with everyone. the family structure is very important. this is what you have to do to eat in the islands, like, it's different. you can't just walk into a grocery store and pick up plastic—covered meat. pita, tell us why we're here. this here is where my hous

been in a position to inspire if he listened to others ahead of the now iconic appearance of the rio olympicant to wear what oui’ ancestors wore for 1,000 years when they sailed across the pacific. and we were told...no. they said, "you have to wear what everyone else is wearing." a shirt, suit, tie. so my coach and i, we had a uniform ready, and we were going through the countries. l, m, n, 0... once they hit around p, we jumped out, put on the costume, put on the oil, which is traditional. and at this stage, they couldn't stop us! as soon as we stepped out to start the marching process towards the stadium, everyone's taking photos. that wasn't our plan. our plan was to represent our tradition and our heritage and we had no idea what impact that would have. the people who'd said you had to wear the suit and you defied them, what did they say afterwards? they were so happy! people say, "was that the best moment, when you walked out at the olympics?" i said, no, my best moment was when i qualified for the olympics, for tae kwon do. i had so many broken bones, torn ligaments. we did that for 2

fighter turned cross—country skier, to find out how it felt to be the flagbearerfor tongo at the rio olympicslcome to brazil for the greatest show on earth. listen to the welcome for tonga and flag bearer pita taufatofua. the country's flag bearer won gold on the internet with his shirtless and oiled—up performance. they said, "you're trending everywhere in the world." i said, "i don't know what trending means, but it sounds good." a social media sensation. could you ever have imagined what was going to happen next? we had no idea. 3 billion people saw that. 200 million google hits. where is tonga? who is the tongan flag bearer? all of a sudden, now you're a celebrity. bruce willis, his face was kind of superimposed on your body. bruce, bruce. maybe one day, if he keeps working out, he can become a tongan warrior. bruce, if you're watching, i'll teach you. tonga is best known for its two forces of nature — its ha rd—hitting heavyweight rugby players and the dramatic seasonal storms. but in 2016, the nation was thrust into the spotlight for an entirely different reason as footage of pita taufa

. >> reporter: at the 2016 rio olympics they were. ke other olympic hopefuls, she now has to wait to qualify for the upcoming games. >> everybody was getting ready to peak and we're having to come ba down again. >> reporter: rescheduling means another year of testing their limits to the extremes, financially, mentally, and physically. what do you like about trail running? >> it's quiet. >> when kyle set a world record as part of the u.s. distance medley relay team in 2015. after trying twice before, the 29-year-old has been hoping to make his first olympic team in the final push. >> he definitely felt deflated at first. everything that i do every single day is positioned in such a way that i could run my best when it counts the most. and then all of a sudden, that is stripped from you. >> reporter: like most of us olympic hopefuls had to adjust to a new normal, figuring out how and where to train became a challenge. >> my living room doesn't have the best beam. >> my coffee table can be the alabama. >> yeah. >> reporter: instead, they

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qualifying events in hamburg played in last against former partner with whom she won gold at the rio olympics keira vulcan horsed also lost their next match. consistency and we have to i don't know if i can say this on. come round. to the can be more aggressive mode but i'm told you know both. the german championship next month will be the 1st real test of their aggressiveness. let's get a recap of our top stories on t w russian doctors treating opposition leader alexina bali say they have found no evidence he was poisoned they are refusing to allow to be sent to germany for treatment thank you too sick to be moved to bali fell sick aboard a flight and was rushed to the hospital inside syria. mellower seen opposition politicians take on the future no scios says she will return to our country and when it is safe to do so to shut up sky a flight to lithuania after rejecting the results of the election earlier this month today she called for more strikes at factories across the country to try to force a new presidential election. coming up next on day to business we're looking at democratic pres

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gymnast laurie hernandez captured the world's attention and gold and silver medals at the 2016 rio olympics again. >> reporter: rescheduling means another year of testing limits to their extremes. financially, mentally, and physically. what do you like about trail running? >> you know, it's quiet. >> reporter: runner kyle merber set a world record as part of the relay team in 2015. after trying twice before, the 29-year-old had been hoping to make his first olympic team and his final push. >> definitely felt deflated at first. everything that i do every single day is kind of positioned in such a way that i could run my best when it counts the most. and then all of a sudden, that is stripped from you. >> reporter: like most of us, olympic hopefuls had to adjust to a new normal, even figuring out how and where to train became a challenge. >> my living room doesn't really have the best beam setup -- >> my coffee table can be the beam, the vault. >> reporter: instead world champions lifted weights at a local park or in a garage next to holiday decorations. teams practice by zoom. the kids' play

when team gb‘s hockey players travelled to rio for the last olympic games, there was just one non—white squad — that's men and women. now, four years on, english hockey is being accused of having an "endemic race issue" in the national side. in a hard—hitting letter signed by nine clubs, the organisation is urged to take action to tackle the problem. gurmej singh pawar is chairman of barford tigers, an inner city birmingham—based club who play in english hockey‘s third tier. when the whole blm movement started gaining traction a couple months ago, i saw england hockey put out a statement about the movement, and i is thought to myself, you cannot be the diversity and inclusion when you have presided over a system that definitely is not diverse and inclusive. i believe that this system that england has created as been built to benefitjust a small section of society, to create a leak structure which benefits the top clu bs structure which benefits the top clubs and clubs from a university system. i also think that england have just pushed hockey towards the southern counties, and they push

the yorkshireman becoming an olympic medallist in the rio games. by a flood of allegations of mistreatment, and now he has decided to speak out, telling me gymnastics has serious issues to address. i would absolutely describe it as a culture of abuse. and i have lived and breathed it for 20 years, dan. it's emotional manipulation and being pushed through physical pain was certainly something i experienced. the gymnasts are still, in my opinion, treated like pieces of meat. would you say that you were abused yourself? i would say that i was abused. but we wanted to win medals. we wanted to win olympic medals. the governing body wanted to win olympic medals. the coaches wanted to win olympic medals. in a statement, british gymnastics said... earlier this year, wilson made a complaint over an altercation with a senior member of staff at a social event at leeds gymnastics club. it did not relate to his training or coaching staff. following an internal club investigation, wilson's grievance was dismissed, a decision upheld after a review by british gymn

is a big star and mohammed is revered for winning world super welterweight gold in doha and olympic bronze in rio. ahead a man by day a parking attendant but after hours he has another life. as a former moroccan national featherweight champion and in the evenings he runs his own boxing club for kids with. so just in a snowstorm and then he's right and then it's and so for the out and then hits and the feel. the rhythm it physically months and i'm somehow that should go to the moon shot it to jubal bush if the going to win on the skin old gaskin is kinda just kind of a lot of money about where to place and you know and it's ended in my flat i'm sure i'm sure i did. club is called but tom. he's always on the lookout for talented boxers from outside but his core membership is local from database i live and nearby areas. that. are out there. he's very much the boss but he does get help from other adult coaches. live with their own. little. son and his coaches give up a lot of their free time to run the club and mentor young talents. to share and it's all part of the song list of a lot of life with an

giles scott is ainslie's heir in the olympic fin class and won gold at rio 2016.20 games delayed for 12 months, he is now having to try and balance two targets. we are due to go out to new zealand very, very shortly, and i am there for six months until march, and then roll straight into a three—month lead—up to the games, which isn't how you'd plan to do things, but the goals are still the same. i want to be able to nail them both. you've four 0lympic titles, you've won america's cup obviously with team 0racle usa. where would it lay to bring it to great britain? to win the cup, to bring it home, for all of us, it would be the biggest moment in our sporting careers, and i think it would be just a great thing for britain to get the america's cup back where it belongs. ainslie is already an iconic figure in british sailing. ending the nation's 170—year wait for a maiden america's cup victory would certainly see him secure legendary status in the sport. nick hope, bbc news, in portsmouth. great to hear from great to hearfrom sir ben great to hear from sir ben ainslie

airport is still closed and even if it rio glee this month i want to fulfill my task of shooting pictures for the olympic committee before we leave because i'm not sure i ever be so lucky to be given such a job my main focus now is to make a promotional tourism video for cape verde if my work is recognized officially i mean i would love to visit other islands of cape verde and create even more videos . so all the worst places to be stuck a this is not international coming up next the unity takes another blow as tell him to reset the ante over disputed sea borders with other major members joining in for military drills to bessie it's one of the stories were across my back. if you go to the symphony orchestras warming up any musician is is tuning his or her instrument so you hear this year all these sounds are noise but it but it's it's a constant a it's disorganized and then the band the orchestra plays and you get up music so what the brain does and what the maker tubules do is organize all orchestrate these one collapses. seem wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to stamp out this day because that

giles scott is in the olympics in class and one gold at rio 2016.nd i am there for six months until march, and then roll straight into a three—month up to the games, which isn't how would plan to do things, but the goals are still the same. i want to be able to mail them both. still the same. i want to be able to mailthem both. you still the same. i want to be able to mail them both. you have still the same. i want to be able to mailthem both. you have one in america's cup with team usa. where would it bring to great britain? to bring the cup home for all of us, it would be the biggest moment in our sporting careers, and it would be just a gate thing for britain to get the america's cup back where it belongs. ainsley is already an iconic figure in british sailing, ending the nation 170 year wait for a maiden america's cup victory would certainly see him secure legendary status in the sport. nick hope, bbc news. there is such a remarkable history around the america's cup. it is the old est around the america's cup. it is the oldest trophy in internat

it was on this day in 2016 in rio de janeiro that jamaica's using bolt became the only sprinter to win gold in the 100 meters in three different olympicsrts, august 14th, i'm joe fonzi. >> bolt, the most decorated sprinter in olympic history. i will be back in 25 minutes with mark, but now it's time for the 11:00 news. >>> next at 11:00- >> when those rotating outages took place, there was not sufficient enough supply to meet the necessary demand. >> northern california's heatwave triggers rolling blackouts for the first time in years the state faces a soaring demand for power. >> pg&e says up to 250,000 customers were affected by rolling blackouts for about an hour and a half each, a rare move ordered by operators of california's power grid. >> cal iso issuing a flex alert for today, asking people to conserve energy. that wasn't enough. at

the olympic medallist nile wilson has criticised a culture of abuse in british gymnastics, saying athletes are treated like pieces of meat. the 24—year—old, who won bronze at riolympic games. so we stay quiet, we do what we are told and then by the way we are the ones to go out there and when those metals. i want one of them in at rio dejaneiro. metals. i want one of them in at rio de janeiro. and yet metals. i want one of them in at rio dejaneiro. and yet the gymnasts are still in my opinion treated like pieces of meat and in it wrapping that up i feel like that is the culture and that is how i have experienced in the last two decades. iam experienced in the last two decades. i am scared talking to you that this may affect mine and this is the way i have a condition for the last decade. you think my coming out is saying this it could affect your selection for tokyo. yeah. would you say that you were abused yourself?” was only say i was abused without a doubt. i would certainly describe it asa doubt. i would certainly describe it as a culture of abuse. and i have lived and breathed it the last 20 yea rs. we lived and breathed it the last 20 years. we want to w

olympic games. england forward jadon sancho is the world's best young player, according to former manchester united captain riorman side. they had set a deadline of 10th august to agree any deal for him and they're demanding around £100 million. manchester united should be in the market for the best players in the world. so he is the best player and we just have to be there for that. he will be an added value in terms of quality, no doubt. let's go live now to the crucible theatre in sheffield, where the first of the semi—finals is under way at the world snooker championship. it's kyren wilson against anthony mcgill — it's early days but it's the scotsman who's edged ahead in this best—of—33 frame match. you can see there. you can follow this match on bbc two, as well as the iplayer and bbc sport website... the other semi final starts tonight with ronnie o'sullivan and mark selby in the evening session at 7pm. now this figure could find the year for this when a chris frame, racing at the dolphin in france. which is the event that he had a big crash at of course, last year. it is a really important warm up race