29/08/2016 Newsround


29/08/2016

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Hey, everyone, Leah here with Monday's Newsround.

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If you've been out cycling this weekend and fancy hearing

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from a pro in the sport, then this is for you.

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Callum Skinner won a gold and a silver medal in this summer's

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Olympics and, now that he's back from Rio, three cycling fans went

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to meet him to find out what it's like being an Olympic cyclist.

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Who is going to claim the gold medal here in Rio?

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Up towards the line

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and the gold medal goes to Great Britain.

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Have you always wanted to be an Olympic track cyclist?

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Not really.

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I just kind of did lots of sport for fun.

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So I did pretty much everything I could have a go of,

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so I did fencing, badminton, rugby, kayaking even.

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The trick is just to find something you enjoy.

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I'm lucky enough that a hobby has turned into a career and it is going

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pretty well so far.

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Just find something you enjoy and if you love it

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it should go well.

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What is your favourite track event, keirin or sprint?

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The sprint.

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The keirin didn't go too well for me.

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I got disqualified for pulling a bit of a manoeuvre so

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sprint is definitely my favourite.

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What was your first cycling club?

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I started at a club called the Edinburgh Racers,

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which is based at a velodrome called Meadowbank.

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That used to be the only velodrome in the UK

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and it was outdoors so we couldn't use it in the winter.

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The first time I showed up was actually in autumn

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and they said the velodrome is closed for six months

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so come back later.

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Luckily, there are a lot of tracks now in the UK now you can

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have a go at.

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How many hours a week do you train for?

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We do maybe three full days a week and then the rest are half days.

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We don't actually do that much because

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the sprinters we only do efforts for a few seconds at a time

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or we are in the gym.

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So they are quite leisurely.

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Meet Gobi the dog.

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She surprised this marathon runner when she randomly started running

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with him and they became the best of friends.

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But there was a little twist in the tail.

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Here's Naz with more.

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You could say it was love at first stride.

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When Dion Leonard went to China

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to run a gruelling 150-mile marathon, little did he know

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he would make a friend.

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She ran half the race with me.

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We spent the whole week together and literally either by the side

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running or in the evening she was in my arms

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during the night, sleeping and eating with me.

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But there was a little twist in the tail.

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Dion wanted to bring Gobi the dog back home

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with him to Scotland but first it had to go into Chinese

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quarantine to make sure it was healthy enough to travel.

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But it escaped.

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As Dion loved Gobi so much, he went off to find her.

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First stop, where she was last seen - a busy city with lots of

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dogs, so it was tough.

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I've been out handing these since 6am and actually looking

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around the parks and local areas

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for the dogs and speaking to locals who actually think they have

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seen Gobi but unfortunately it isn't Gobi.

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But then it went viral on social media and before long Dion had some

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leads and Gobi was found.

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This lovely father and son had found her and we went out

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to see her.

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She ran across the land and basically ran straight into my arms.

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She was so excited to see me and I had just

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walked in the door, I hadn't said a word to her,

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so she knew it was me straightaway.

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So Gobi is now finally getting ready to move to Scotland.

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I think the first command Dion will be teaching her...stay!

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Now to the team of scientists who spent a year living in a dome

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in Hawaii without any fresh food, fresh air or privacy,

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and they managed to complete everything still smiling.

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It was all to find out what life might be like living on one

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of our solar systems most volatile planets - Mars.

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The good news is they now believe after surviving this experiment

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humans will be able to travel to the Red Planet

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in as little as three years.

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The UH research going on up here is just super vital when

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it comes to picking crews, figuring how

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people are going to work on different kinds of missions,

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sort of the human factors element of space travel,

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colonisation, whatever it is you're

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actually looking at.

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Formula 1 now, because Lewis Hamilton fought his way

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from the back row of the grid to finish third

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at the Belgian Grand Prix.

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His Mercedes team-mate Nico Rosberg started on pole and led

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to the finish, cutting Hamilton's championship lead to nine points.

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The new England manager Sam Allardyce has named his first

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squad since taking over from Roy Hodgson.

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Uncapped West Ham winger Michail Antonio has been

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given his first call-up.

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There's a return for Luke Shaw, Phil Jagielka, Danny Drinkwater

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and Theo Walcott to the England squad but Everton's Ross Barkley

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has NOT been selected.

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This is one of the UK's best-loved butterflies but the numbers of them

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seen in UK gardens this summer have gone done dramatically.

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It's thought that the decline of the small copper

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tortoiseshell butterfly is down to this year's cooler summer

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affecting the way the insects reproduce and feed.

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It is one of my favourite butterflies and I feel really sad

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that it has almost disappeared from the garden.

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We have seen just two this year and in previous years we

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used to see them...probably the most frequently seen butterfly because it

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comes out three times a year and so they are

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often around the place, or used to be,

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and now it is gone.

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If you're a Lego fan then you're going to love this.

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In Portugal, kids can get an up-close look at the country's

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largest Lego city.

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The exhibition is made up of medieval towns,

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film set recreations and locomotives.

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With approximately five million colourful pieces of Lego,

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it's been designed and built by one single collector.

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That's all from me.

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I'll be back for at 4:20pm.

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