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British athlete Alice Dearing on being Team GB’s only black swimmer
Alice Dearing is one of Great Britain’s top female swimmers – and is hoping to become the first ethnic minority woman to compete for Team GB at the Olympics.
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Home Office helps famed Polish chef get settled status after rejection
The Home Secretary says officials are helping a Polish born chef to get settled status in the UK, after his application was rejected. Damian Wawrzyniak – who’s cooked for the Royal family and the 2012 Olympics – was shocked to be refused permission to live permanently in this country, after working and paying taxes in…
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Series 2, Episode 22: Matt Brittin
Matt Brittin is the President of Google’s business and operations in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He was also a British rower winning medals at the World Championships and representing GB at the Olympics. Krishnan challenges him on some of the controversies Google faces, whether YouTube’s policies are in the right place when it…
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FactCheck: what is the row about transgender athletes all about?
Martina Navratilova has been accused of being “transphobic” after saying that some transgender women should not be allowed to compete against other women in sport. The tennis star has criticised International Olympic Committee (IOC) guidelines, which say transgender athletes can compete as women if they reduce their testosterone levels. Trans activists have accused her of…
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Rock climbing: a different way of learning
Climbing is the latest sport to be included in the Olympics. Terrifying, if you hate heights, lose your balance and shy away from zen like discipline. But for one growing group of climbing fans, young people with learning difficulties, this need for focus presents an added challenge.
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Adam Rippon: from the ice rink to political activism
An Olympian is swapping his figure skates for the wheels of political campaigning. Adam Rippon, who won a bronze medal in the Winter Olympics in South Korea earlier this year, says being an openly gay sportsman pushed him to join the campaign trail and speak out against President Trump’s administration. Kiran Moodley went to meet…
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FactCheck: Jeremy Corbyn and the wreath row
The controversy centres on one question: did Jeremy Corbyn lay a wreath on the graves of individuals linked to the Black September terror group?
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Corbyn admits attending wreath-laying ceremony for Palestinian militants suspected of Munich massacre
He says he was present, but doesn’t “think” he was actually involved. It seems the Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn was at a 2014 wreath-laying ceremony for members of a Palestinian group suspected of carrying out the Munich Olympics massacre. Mr Corbyn said he’d been at the event in Tunisia because he wanted to see a “fitting memorial to everyone who has…
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FactCheck: Boris Johnson lied about EU safety regulation in his resignation letter
FactCheck takes a look.
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Paralympic Heritage Flame lit at Stoke Mandeville
A Winter Olympics ceremony has also been affected by the weather. The lighting of the Paralympic Heritage Flame was cancelled for members of the public because of the snow. But the torch event took place anyway.
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I, Tonya: The story behind the film
It was the scandal which rocked the Winter Olympics 24 years ago. When U.S. gold medal hopeful Nancy Kerrigan was attacked by a masked stranger, her rival – and friend – Tonya Harding was implicated, and barred from skating. But Harding’s life was far more complex than the cartoon-villain image that emerged. We talked to…
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Kim Jong-un calls for ‘livening up’ of relationship with South Korea
North Korea’s leader has called for a “further livening up” of the “warm climate of reconciliation” with the South that appears to have been created at the Winter Olympics. According to the North Korean state news agency, Kim Jong-un also praised the South for hosting a North Korean delegation at the Pyeongchang Games, where his…
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North Korea invites South Korean president to visit
North Korea has invited South Korean leader President Moon Jae-in to visit Pyongyang. It would be the first summit between the leaders of the two Koreas in more than a decade. The invite came as North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un’s younger sister visited the Winter Olympics, where today a joint Korean Ice Hockey team turned…
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North Korea to send delegation to Winter Games in South Korea
North Korea have said they will send a delegation to the Winter Olympics in South Korea. As the countries met for their first high-level talks for almost two years, it was agreed that athletes, high-ranking officials and even cheerleaders will attend next month’s Games. But do the discussions, held in a tiny village in the demilitarised zone, also…
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Britain’s Paralympians look ahead to Winter Paralympics
As Kim Jong-un prepares to send a team to the South Korea Winter Olympics, Team GB are also looking to next month’s Games. Back in the summer of 2016, Britain’s Paralympians were triumphant in Rio. The team smashed their own targets, winning 147 medals. Today they set out their stall for the Winter Olympics, with…
