21/08/2016 Newsround


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Day 15 brings more gold for Team GB and it's a day

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Stay tuned for all your Olympic news here on Newsround.

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Good morning. I'm Ayshah.

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The Olympics are almost over, but that's not stopped Team GB

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They're sitting pretty at 2nd in the medal table.

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Last night, Mo Farah claimed gold in the 5000 metres.

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Mo Farah is going to get gold for Great Britain again.

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It was Farah's fourth Olympic gold medal in total and he becomes

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Britain's most successful Olympic track and field athlete of all time.

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I have that drive and I think it's something we're born

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with and I think, I don't know, just me.

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That was quickly followed by a bronze in the women's 4 x 400m

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relay to get Great Britain's 66th medal here, meaning they've

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surpassed their haul from four years ago when they hosted

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A special mention for the smiliest boxer in the world, Nicola Adams,

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who defended her title and got another gold.

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Nicola is the first British boxer to win two consecutive Olympic

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titles since 1924 and unsurprisingly, she couldn't keep

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The other gold of the day came from Liam Heath

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And in the women's triathlon, Vicky Holland claimed bronze as GB's

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But there was some bad news for Tom Daley, who made a shock exit

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in the 10m platform diving when he failed to

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Because it's the Olympic games, they mean so much to me and just

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to be not in the final, to get the shot to go for that

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But it was a record-breaking day for Team GB and another

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From Rio to the Ballroom, and the latest Strictly

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She's said to be inspired by fellow Team GB Olympian Louis Smith,

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who picked up the glitterball in 2012.

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If you want to find out who else will be dancing it up

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in the ballroom then go online where we've got a gallery

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You might recognise this guy, Ore, who used to be

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It's fair to say he's probably going to be our favourite.

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To a mission to save one of our most endangered mammals.

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This month 100 water voles that have been raised in captivity

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are being released into the wild in Yorkshire in

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And we've got some top facts for you about the special

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Meet one of Britain's most endangered mammal,

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They might be shy and secretive, but they're the largest type of vole

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in Britain and can often be mistaken for a rat.

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Despite their name, they don't always live near water.

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Inside, they make burrows underground, like moles.

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Their homes can have many levels that help prevent flooding

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as well as containing rooms for nesting, a food store

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and sometimes even a little platform of twigs and grass

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where they can sunbathe aboveground.

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But that doesn't mean they're not brilliant

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Did you know water voles are very strong swimmers?

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They can reach up to 500m on the surface or 15 under water.

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Back in the 1960s, there were lots of them in Yorkshire

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But they were wiped out by mink, brought over

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Conservationists hope by re-introducing them

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into the wild, they'll be back in the countryside for good.

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It's that time of the week for us to take a look at the

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strangest stories we've managed to come across.

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First up, meet one of our oldest species, the huge Greenland shark

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who can live for up to 400 years. Unsurprisingly, that makes the

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planet 's longest living vertebrates. That's the animals that

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have backbones. With such long lives, the sharks can afford to take

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things slow. They are one of the slowest swimmers in the sharp family

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and they grow up to one centimetre per year. Now there may be times

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when you might not like the weather in UK, but be thankful you don't

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step outside and see this. It's what happens when winds mixed with smoke

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and flames. This one in the US state of Oregon was probably caused by the

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farming equipment. No one was hurt and firefighters put out the blaze

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after an hour. Last up, zookeepers in state that a happy surprise when

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they discovered that the panda had had twins. They knew she had one

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baby but they didn't realise there was a second one for more than a

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week. It's because Yang Yang has been keeping her babies between the

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big paused to keep them warm. They could only see one at a time. And

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That's it for now, I'll be back at 1.45pm.

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