22/07/2012 BBC Weekend News


22/07/2012

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Good afternoon. Bradley Wiggins is set to secure a place among

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Britain's sporting greats today, as he prepares to become the first

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British winner of the Tour de France in its 109-year history.

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Only an accident can prevent Wiggins clinching the title in

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Paris this afternoon, where there is a tradition the race leader

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isn't challenged on the final day. Live now to Paris, and our

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correspondent Tim Franks. Thank you very much. As you can

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probably see behind me, the great mass of fans who are coming to

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salute Bradley Wiggins and the rest of the Tour the France riders have

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already started coming. They are clad in their lycra, their T-shirts,

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proclaiming Bradley Wiggins, many of them. It is a remarkable story.

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Yesterday, we saw him cement his position by taking the time trial,

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by post as -- by posting the fastest time of the day. That is

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his speciality. But he has proved himself to be a rider of iron will

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all the way through the Tour de France this year. It is the world's

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toughest endurance test. Sport tends to lend itself to hyperbole,

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talking about greats and history and so forth, but this really will

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be one of the major sporting achievements by any British

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sportsmen ever. What is even more extraordinary is that it is not

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just going to be one British man on the podium for the first time in

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109 years, it is going to be two. Teammate Chris Froome will also be

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on the podium. There is also the prospect, potentially, of Mark

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Cavendish taking the sprint stage victory here, to take him to fourth

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in the all-time list. So, a remarkable list of achievements for

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The Syrian army has launched a new attack on a northern district of

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the capital, Damascus. Activists and people living in Barzeh say

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helicopters are being used. Troops have also been deployed in other

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areas of Damsascus. Fighting has also continued in Syria's second

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city, Aleppo, which until a week ago had been relatively unaffected

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President Obama is to visit Colorado today, to meet relatives

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of some of the victims of the mass shooting at a cinema in the town of

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Aurora. The 12 people who died included a six-year-old girl. The

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apartment of the man believed to have carried out the attack has now

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been cleared of booby traps. The people of Norway are

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commemorating the day, exactly a year ago, when Anders Behring

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Breivik killed 77 people. Many of the victims were teenagers who were

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attending a summer camp on the island of Utoya. Richard Galpin

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This day of remembrance began with a solemn ceremony in the centre of

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Oslo. The Prime Minister and the King laid wreaths in memory of the

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eight people who died here in the car bomb which targeted the

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Government's headquarters. Then, a drum roll to mark a minute of

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silence. TRANSLATION: Breivik took many

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lives with the aim of changing this country, but Norway united - he

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lost, we won. The country's leaders went on to attend a memorial

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service here in Oslo cathedral. This was one of many services held

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across the country. It was a chance for everyone to reflect on the

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enormity of what happened a year ago. The car bomb in Oslo was

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designed to kill the Prime Minister and members of his cabinet, but it

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failed - they were not in their offices. Breivik went on to carry

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out a second attack on the island of Utoya, where hundreds of young

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people were at a summer camp. 67 were shot dead. Two others drowned.

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Now, a year later, the trauma still hangs heavy over the population.

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