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We're live, it's just after 5:00pm on Monday afternoon and you're with | :00:20. | :00:25. | |
Nel and Ore. Stick around with us on Newsround, cos we have a jam- | :00:25. | :00:30. | |
packed show on the way. Coming up: I've been in Glasgow reclaiming the | :00:30. | :00:36. | |
streets for play. And Lady Gaga's looking a bit woof. | :00:36. | :00:39. | |
First, preparations for the London Olympics couldn't be going better | :00:39. | :00:45. | |
for the British athletics squad. Over the weekend, they won nine | :00:45. | :00:47. | |
medals at the World Indoor Athletics Championships, their | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
biggest ever haul. But not everyone was happy. That's because | :00:54. | :00:56. | |
representing the team were athletes who some people don't think really | :00:56. | :00:59. | |
are British. Take, for example, the captain, Tiffany Porter, who was | :00:59. | :01:04. | |
born and has spent most of her life living in the US. So what does it | :01:04. | :01:10. | |
mean to be a British athlete? Winning a gold medal for your | :01:10. | :01:13. | |
country at the Olympic Games is the biggest thing an athlete can | :01:13. | :01:21. | |
achieve. And we're hoping for a lot of GB medals this summer. But what | :01:21. | :01:23. | |
if the country the athletes are representing isn't actually where | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
they're originally from, where they live or even train? Over the | :01:26. | :01:29. | |
weekend, Yamile Aldama won gold for Britain in the triple jump at the | :01:29. | :01:31. | |
World Indoor Athletics Championships. But she's originally | :01:32. | :01:36. | |
from Cuba and has already competed for two countries - Cuba and Sudan. | :01:36. | :01:42. | |
And she wasn't alone. In the GB squad, there were another three | :01:42. | :01:45. | |
athletes who were born in America, one from Anguilla and another from | :01:45. | :01:48. | |
Somalia. Even the team's captain, Tiffany Porter, has moved to the UK | :01:48. | :01:51. | |
in the last two years. She represented the United States as a | :01:51. | :01:55. | |
junior athlete, but since switched to Team GB because her mum is from | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
London. It's because athletes can qualify to represent a country if | :01:59. | :02:02. | |
they've lived there for a certain amount of time or have a parent | :02:02. | :02:12. | |
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born in that country. And it This weekend, Manu Tuilagi scored | :02:16. | :02:19. | |
for England's rugby team against France in the Six Nnations - he was | :02:19. | :02:23. | |
born in Samoa but moved to the UK when he was 13. And Kevin Pietersen | :02:23. | :02:27. | |
- one of the best cricketers in the world - spent most of his life in | :02:27. | :02:30. | |
South Africa, but with an English mum, is one of England's star | :02:30. | :02:40. | |
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batsmen. If they're good enough and they want to compete for Team GB, | :02:44. | :02:46. | |
does it really matter where they're from? | :02:46. | :02:51. | |
And it's a question that's got you guys talking over on the website. | :02:51. | :02:53. | |
Solomon from West Yorkshire says just because they come from another | :02:53. | :03:03. | |
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country, doesn't mean they can't We're joined now by Diane Modahl, | :03:10. | :03:14. | |
who competed at four Olympic Games for Great Britain in the 800 metres. | :03:14. | :03:22. | |
She's also a former Commonwealth champion. Thank you for coming in | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
to talk to us. Do you understand why people are upset about athletes | :03:26. | :03:29. | |
coming into the Olympic team who don't seem to have much connection | :03:29. | :03:32. | |
with the UK? I can't understand that argument at all. From my point | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
of view, and the athletes and coaches I have been speaking to, | :03:37. | :03:40. | |
they are telling me that providing an athlete has fulfilled the | :03:40. | :03:45. | |
eligibility criteria, there is no reason why they shouldn't pull on a | :03:45. | :03:52. | |
national fest and compete. Most people seem to be happy with Mo | :03:52. | :03:55. | |
Farah competing, even though he was born in Somalia, because he's spent | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
most of his life here, but Tiffany just has a British parent - should | :03:59. | :04:01. | |
the qualifying rules be changed? don't think they do need to change. | :04:01. | :04:04. | |
There is nothing plastic or fake about pulling on a national vest | :04:05. | :04:08. | |
and competing for your country. From the athletes point of view, | :04:08. | :04:13. | |
you work hard, you commit your career to being the best you can be | :04:13. | :04:18. | |
and that is the most important thing. You have pulled on that | :04:18. | :04:21. | |
first four times at the Olympic Games, you know what it means to | :04:21. | :04:25. | |
have that national pride. Is that the most important thing, or are | :04:25. | :04:31. | |
there other things? I think it is the most important thing. When you | :04:31. | :04:35. | |
stand on the start line, you are there to represent your country and | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
be the best that you can be. Of course, if you have won and you are | :04:39. | :04:44. | |
on the lap of honour, that is the fun part. From the athletes' point | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
of view, they will be focused on trying to get on that number one | :04:48. | :04:55. | |
spot, standing on that rostrum. Thank you for coming in, 137 days | :04:55. | :05:05. | |
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to the Games, are you excited? Extremely excited! Can't wait! | :05:12. | :05:15. | |
Speaking of gaming, that's one reason why a lot of kids are being | :05:15. | :05:18. | |
told they're not playing outdoors enough anymore. But for many others, | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
it's because their parents simply don't think it's safe for them | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
outside. That's been a real problem in parts of Glasgow until recently. | :05:24. | :05:27. | |
Now, volunteers and a charity called PEEK are giving kids in the | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
East End the chance to reclaim their streets. I went along to get | :05:30. | :05:33. | |
the lowdown. This is Barrow field in the East End of Glasgow, one of | :05:33. | :05:36. | |
the most deprived areas in Scotland, their history of violence and high | :05:36. | :05:38. | |
levels of crime. Two years ago, things were so bad, half of parents | :05:38. | :05:41. | |
would not allow their kids outside to play unsupervised, and one in | :05:41. | :05:44. | |
five would not let them out at all. Now that has changed. It is down to | :05:44. | :05:47. | |
a project run by a charity called PEEK, who want kids to go back on | :05:47. | :05:50. | |
the streets and reclaim them for play. The charity decided to use | :05:50. | :05:55. | |
young adults in the area to act as play Rangers, to supervise play | :05:55. | :05:59. | |
sessions, allowing youngsters to run around and enjoy themselves | :05:59. | :06:05. | |
safely. These kids are not complaining. I like it when they | :06:05. | :06:09. | |
are here, but not when they are not here because it is not safe to play | :06:09. | :06:13. | |
outside. I like playing outside because it is healthy and I can | :06:13. | :06:18. | |
play football and tennis. I feel safe when PEEK is here because they | :06:18. | :06:22. | |
look after you. Michaela is a play Ranger who grew up in the area and | :06:22. | :06:27. | |
understands how important it is that kids get to play outside. | :06:27. | :06:30. | |
learn from ships and social skills, their health and fitness has | :06:30. | :06:36. | |
increased. Their mental health and role being has increased. -- well- | :06:36. | :06:41. | |
being. They are making friends and it is fun, which is important. | :06:41. | :06:46. | |
charity provides three -- free play activities for over 300 children in | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
one week. The sessions run in a different sides across Glasgow. | :06:51. | :06:54. | |
These did say that since the play sessions started, they feel a lot | :06:54. | :06:58. | |
more confident and are getting fitter. The local residents love it | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
because they say it is nice to see kids back out on the streets. They | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
are certainly enjoying themselves. Finally, to the pooch that's more | :07:06. | :07:09. | |
Gaga than woof woof. Elizabeth the Lhasa Apso has won Best in Show at | :07:10. | :07:13. | |
the one of the world's biggest dog shows, Crufts. The 7-year-old from | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
Coventry beat 21,000 other dogs, but we reckon she's stolen Lady | :07:16. | :07:25. |