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Another gold for Team GB as Charlotte Dujardin | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
triumphs in the dressage, retaining her Olympic title. | :00:00. | :00:11. | |
She passes with flying colours on her horse Valegro to become only | :00:12. | :00:17. | |
the second British woman in history to win three Olympic golds. | :00:18. | :00:23. | |
I mean, I've just gone out there and Valegra has given me | :00:24. | :00:28. | |
I felt so emotional doing the last bit. | :00:29. | :00:32. | |
We've just come out there and we've all had a cry! | :00:33. | :00:37. | |
Team GB now has 16 golds after Andy Murray's hard-fought win | :00:38. | :00:40. | |
rounded off an extraordinary weekend of success for British athletes. | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
We'll be asking what's behind Team GB's continued success. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
The former Premier League footballer Dalian Atkinson has died | :00:47. | :00:52. | |
after a taser was fired at him by police in Shropshire. | :00:53. | :00:59. | |
An extraordinary escape for a pilot who ditched in the sea | :01:00. | :01:01. | |
How the British have developed quite a taste for sparkling wine. | :01:02. | :01:11. | |
And coming up in Olympic Sportsday later in the hour on BBC News. | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
An early British medal on the 10th day of competition, | :01:15. | :01:16. | |
their first in the Hammer thanks to Sophie Hitchon. | :01:17. | :01:43. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News At Six. | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
Britain's Charlotte Dujardin has won gold on her horse Valegro | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
in the individual dressage, defending her Olympic title | :01:49. | :01:50. | |
and making her only the second British woman in history to win | :01:51. | :01:53. | |
Her win continues the extraordinary run of success for Team | :01:54. | :01:57. | |
GB over the weekend, which saw Britain add five more | :01:58. | :02:01. | |
And there could be more to come tonight, with cyclist | :02:02. | :02:06. | |
Andy Swiss reports. It has been described as equestrian ballet and | :02:07. | :02:22. | |
in Charlotte Dujardin it has one of its ultimate performers. Roger and | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
horse in perfect harmony. The defending champion on Valegro and | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
once again they produced an utterly spellbinding display. At the end the | :02:32. | :02:38. | |
emotions overflowed. And the result was astonishing. They have been the | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
stars of the sport worldwide now. And no one could catch her. | :02:45. | :02:50. | |
Charlotte Dujardin once again Olympic dressage champion, another | :02:51. | :02:55. | |
title, another unforgettable trial. In London I had no expectation, no | :02:56. | :03:00. | |
pressure to go out there. Today I felt a huge amount of pressure and | :03:01. | :03:06. | |
expectation. For me it could be one of the last rites on Valegro, there | :03:07. | :03:10. | |
is talk of retirement for him and for me to finish in this way, it is | :03:11. | :03:18. | |
really emotional. What a moment meanwhile in the women's hammer. | :03:19. | :03:21. | |
Sophie Hitchon with Careberry final throw. That was enough for bronze. | :03:22. | :03:29. | |
The first medal for the UK in the event thanks to that last gasp | :03:30. | :03:34. | |
glory. Neither she nor anyone else could get near this. A world record | :03:35. | :03:44. | |
from Anita Wlodarczyk of Poland. Earlier Team GB's sensational Sunday | :03:45. | :03:50. | |
had been rounded off by Andy Murray. His four are win over Del Potro | :03:51. | :03:56. | |
leaving both men physically and emotionally drained. Andy Murray | :03:57. | :04:02. | |
proud on the podium, the first player to win back-to-back singles | :04:03. | :04:08. | |
girls. I feel a lot of just relief. I'm just tired right now but | :04:09. | :04:13. | |
obviously proud to help won another gold medal. But the star of the show | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
was Max Whitlock, two gold medals in barely 90 minutes, the first ever in | :04:20. | :04:24. | |
gymnastics for Britain. And today he told me that here in real the | :04:25. | :04:30. | |
winning habit is proving contagious. A big believer that success breeds | :04:31. | :04:34. | |
success, I feel it can go across all sports. People see this person with | :04:35. | :04:40. | |
a gold medal from Team GB, it birds be blonde and makes them believe | :04:41. | :04:44. | |
what is possible, it motivates and inspires them. How about following a | :04:45. | :04:49. | |
medal with an engagement ring? Chinese diver receiving a very | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
public marriage proposal from her team-mate. And to the delight of the | :04:55. | :05:01. | |
crowd, she said yes. Two divers taking the plunge in a | :05:02. | :05:10. | |
whole new way. Dare we say it, there could be more British success | :05:11. | :05:15. | |
tonight here in the velodrome. Mark Cavendish has never won an Olympic | :05:16. | :05:18. | |
medal but he is in third place going into the final stages of the men's | :05:19. | :05:20. | |
omnium. Let's take a look at the medal table | :05:21. | :05:35. | |
so far. After the success today, Team GB is in second place with 16 | :05:36. | :05:40. | |
goals, 16 silvers and eight bronze medals, taking the total tally to | :05:41. | :05:50. | |
40. How is Rio shaping up compared to other games? At London 2012 | :05:51. | :05:55. | |
TeamGB had a total of 65 medal. Four years before that they had 47 in | :05:56. | :06:04. | |
Beijing. 30 at Athens, 28 in Sydney and in Atlanta, they went home with | :06:05. | :06:05. | |
just 15. So what is behind the big turnaround? Gold for | :06:06. | :06:20. | |
Great Britain! Bow to his superiority. Records tumbling. | :06:21. | :06:28. | |
History being made. These games have so far surpassed all expectations. | :06:29. | :06:34. | |
But how has a small nation like the UK in alongside and even above | :06:35. | :06:38. | |
giants like China? It is all thanks to money and one humiliating | :06:39. | :06:43. | |
Olympics. In 1996 in Atlanta the UK won just one gold medal, 15 interval | :06:44. | :06:48. | |
leading the nation in 30 Sixth Place in the medal table behind Algeria | :06:49. | :06:53. | |
and Kazakhstan. The government then started diverting lottery funds | :06:54. | :06:57. | |
directly into sport enabling athletes to train full-time. Those | :06:58. | :07:02. | |
winning medals here in Brazil are directly reaping the rewards of your | :07:03. | :07:05. | |
weekly flutter. The funding is everything. I do not get any extra | :07:06. | :07:12. | |
money other than the lottery money. That is it and without that you're | :07:13. | :07:17. | |
not windsurfing, not going to the Olympic Games, not doing any Olympic | :07:18. | :07:23. | |
sport. How much cash has been spent since Atlanta? There was a ?69 | :07:24. | :07:27. | |
million investment for the Sydney games but by Athens, the investment | :07:28. | :07:30. | |
have gone up. London won the right to host the Olympics and three years | :07:31. | :07:36. | |
later in Beijing it was a huge increase in funding, to ?265 | :07:37. | :07:39. | |
million. For London it was up again and it paid off. The UK finishing | :07:40. | :07:42. | |
third in the medals table at the home games. Here the total | :07:43. | :08:09. | |
investment in both the Olympic and Paralympic teams is almost ?350 | :08:10. | :08:11. | |
million with the team on course for its best away games in history. UK | :08:12. | :08:14. | |
Sport said the success is by design and not chance. We have enjoyed the | :08:15. | :08:17. | |
privilege now of national lottery investment for 18 years and that has | :08:18. | :08:19. | |
allowed UK Sport to focus funding in a targeted way and allow athletes to | :08:20. | :08:22. | |
train full-time, an eight-year investment, not a four-year project, | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
with the best world-class coaching, science, medicine support wrapped | :08:25. | :08:25. | |
around them. Ultimately though UK Sport provides the foundation is, it | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
is the athletes who must deliver the inspirational moments. So far up | :08:29. | :08:31. | |
against TeamGB is spoiling a nation which no longer hopes, but expect. | :08:32. | :08:48. | |
And Usain Bolt has proved again that he is the fastest man in the world. | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Usain Bolt has done it again, winning gold in the 100m | :08:53. | :08:54. | |
The Jamaican also remains on course for the sprint treble, | :08:55. | :08:58. | |
with two more gold medals for the 200m and the 4x100 metre | :08:59. | :09:01. | |
It is a sprinting supremacy that began in Beijing and continued in | :09:02. | :09:13. | |
London 2012. Now Usain Bolt has a third consecutive 100 metres Olympic | :09:14. | :09:17. | |
title, three games, three gold medals, after delivering once again | :09:18. | :09:21. | |
when it mattered most. Usain Bolt started slowly but the | :09:22. | :09:27. | |
man cast as the saviour of track and Field soon surged ahead of his chief | :09:28. | :09:32. | |
rival, American two times drugs cheat Justin Gatlin, long seen as | :09:33. | :09:36. | |
the pantomime villain of the sport. Usain Bolt sprinted to a place where | :09:37. | :09:40. | |
no one in Olympic history ever been before, affirming his status as a | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
true legend of this, and all sport. I'm really happy, I expected to go | :09:46. | :09:52. | |
faster but the time was so quick, we had to come back out. I'm just happy | :09:53. | :09:55. | |
than I won it, that is the key thing. Among the abiding images, | :09:56. | :10:00. | |
this remarkable photo from a semifinal, capturing the dominance | :10:01. | :10:03. | |
and the charisma for which he is known. But could track and field | :10:04. | :10:06. | |
have found a man to replace the biggest star in the sport? | :10:07. | :10:13. | |
24-year-old South African Wayde Van Niekerk last night sensationally | :10:14. | :10:16. | |
winning the 400 metre final and smashing the world record in the | :10:17. | :10:20. | |
process. In a time of 43 point three seconds. Wayde Van Niekerk had | :10:21. | :10:27. | |
pulled off one of the most spectacular pieces of running the | :10:28. | :10:31. | |
sport had ever seen, surpassing the previous 400 metres world record of | :10:32. | :10:36. | |
43.18 seconds, the legendary Michael Johnson had set 17 years ago and | :10:37. | :10:39. | |
which many thought would not be beaten. Today he reflected on just | :10:40. | :10:45. | |
how special last night had been. It is about doing things that are | :10:46. | :10:49. | |
electric on the track, more than just being a world record holder or | :10:50. | :10:54. | |
Olympic champion, is doing something special that no one has done before. | :10:55. | :10:58. | |
No one was more thrilled here last night and his coach. 74-year-old | :10:59. | :11:06. | |
great-grandmother who has been working with him for the past three | :11:07. | :11:08. | |
years. Even Usain Bolt seemed struck by what he had seen, interrupting | :11:09. | :11:13. | |
his celebrations to congratulate the new world record holder. To living | :11:14. | :11:16. | |
champions delivering the defining moments that these games crave. | :11:17. | :11:31. | |
These games still have their problems? It is something of a game | :11:32. | :11:39. | |
of two halves developing. In the venues around the Olympic Park, | :11:40. | :11:42. | |
those iconic and inspirational sporting moments are definitely | :11:43. | :11:46. | |
being delivered. And of course the organisers were desperate for those | :11:47. | :11:51. | |
given the build-up was overshadowed by doping related controversy. So | :11:52. | :11:54. | |
last night those fantastic performances from Usain Bolt and | :11:55. | :11:58. | |
Wayde Van Niekerk, people are talking of the prospect of a 300 | :11:59. | :12:01. | |
metre race between them next season to decide the greatest sprinter in | :12:02. | :12:06. | |
the world. That is what track and field needed more interest, more | :12:07. | :12:11. | |
intrigue in the sport, given the difficulties it faced. Elsewhere | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
TeamGB and their continued success, Michael Phelps, Simona Biles, they | :12:18. | :12:22. | |
all gave the game is some stardust. But today crisis talks between | :12:23. | :12:25. | |
International Paralympic Committee chiefs and the federal government | :12:26. | :12:28. | |
over a funding crisis which could mean 50 countries cannot afford to | :12:29. | :12:32. | |
send athletes to the Paralympic Games. A reminder that there event | :12:33. | :12:35. | |
at times is sailing close to the wind. But when it comes to sport, is | :12:36. | :12:37. | |
already feels like a classic. after a Taser was fired at him | :12:38. | :12:42. | |
by police in Shropshire. Officers were called to his father's | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
home in Telford in the early hours of the morning | :12:47. | :12:49. | |
after they were alerted about The 48-year-old suffered | :12:50. | :12:51. | |
a cardiac arrest as he was The Independent Police | :12:52. | :12:55. | |
Complaints Commission For more than 16 years Dalian | :12:56. | :13:09. | |
Atkinson was a household name in Premier League football. The striker | :13:10. | :13:13. | |
played for a number of clubs but is perhaps best known for his time at | :13:14. | :13:17. | |
Aston Villa. And this man performance against Wimbledon in | :13:18. | :13:22. | |
1992, earning him Match Of The Day goal of season. | :13:23. | :13:26. | |
He was well-known in this quiet cul-de-sac on the outskirts of | :13:27. | :13:31. | |
Telford where he frequently visited his father. Police arrived his home | :13:32. | :13:35. | |
at half past one this morning. Officers were responding to a call | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
from someone concerned about the safety of a man. Westminster police | :13:41. | :13:45. | |
today confirmed that a taser had been used. 48-year-old Dalian | :13:46. | :13:50. | |
Atkinson died 90 minutes after police were called to the house. | :13:51. | :13:53. | |
Paramedics said that he suffered a heart attack on his way to hospital. | :13:54. | :13:59. | |
Paul Quinn lives in a flat overlooking the street and she told | :14:00. | :14:03. | |
me what she saw happening. A gentleman actually physically was | :14:04. | :14:07. | |
tasered, I saw him hit the ground, and all the events Astrid. She then | :14:08. | :14:12. | |
went on to make this claim. The police officers that were there, the | :14:13. | :14:16. | |
only ones that were there scrambled towards him and started kicking him | :14:17. | :14:22. | |
around the body. And shouting. They were shouting and kicking so much, | :14:23. | :14:27. | |
all I could hear was their boots hitting him. We have not found | :14:28. | :14:34. | |
anyone else who said they saw anything similar, the Independent | :14:35. | :14:35. | |
Police Complaints Commission is carrying out a full investigation, | :14:36. | :14:40. | |
it said, including any use of force. Dalian Atkinson was like nephew | :14:41. | :14:43. | |
arrived later that afternoon. He told us that his uncle had recently | :14:44. | :14:47. | |
been diagnosed with kidney problems and he was undergoing dialysis. The | :14:48. | :14:51. | |
family are trying to come to terms with what has happened. Really angry | :14:52. | :14:56. | |
and frustrated, annoyed, overwhelmed. What questions are | :14:57. | :15:03. | |
going around in your head? Because the damage done, you've got to try | :15:04. | :15:07. | |
to develop preventative measures through this, as soon as they deploy | :15:08. | :15:12. | |
a taser you have got to deploy an ambulance. Police tasers were first | :15:13. | :15:16. | |
introduced in 2003 as an alternative to the use of lethal force. Since | :15:17. | :15:21. | |
then it has been found that their use played a significant or material | :15:22. | :15:27. | |
part in the deaths of two men. The Independent Police Complaints | :15:28. | :15:30. | |
Commission says it is currently investigating for cases where a | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
taser was used prior to death. What happened here will also be | :15:35. | :15:39. | |
investigated by the police watchdog after the case was voluntarily | :15:40. | :15:43. | |
referred by the West Messier force. It will be for an inquest to decide | :15:44. | :15:47. | |
whether the taser played a significant part in the former | :15:48. | :15:53. | |
footballer's death. Tonight Dalian Atkinson's former team-mate at Aston | :15:54. | :15:57. | |
Villa paid him this tribute. He was larger than life, one of the big | :15:58. | :16:01. | |
characters of the club when I was there. I got to the club and he was | :16:02. | :16:07. | |
the one who stuck out first because he was a big personality. Always had | :16:08. | :16:12. | |
a lot to say but was a very funny guy. Many questions are being asked | :16:13. | :16:16. | |
about what happened last night. It will be many months before those | :16:17. | :16:18. | |
questions are answered. Another gold for Team GB | :16:19. | :16:22. | |
as Charlotte Dujardin triumphs in the dressage, | :16:23. | :16:26. | |
becoming only the second British woman in history to win | :16:27. | :16:29. | |
three Olympic golds. A lucky escape for the pilot | :16:30. | :16:34. | |
who was rescued from this Coming up in Olympic Sportsday | :16:35. | :16:38. | |
in the next 15 minutes on BBC News. He's the king of the sprints | :16:39. | :16:45. | |
at the Tour de France but can Cavendish secure his | :16:46. | :16:48. | |
first Olympic medal? A pilot had a very lucky | :16:49. | :17:02. | |
escape in Kent yesterday after his plane ditched in the sea | :17:03. | :17:05. | |
during the Herne Bay air show. The moment was captured on film | :17:06. | :17:09. | |
by people who'd been Horrified onlookers rushed | :17:10. | :17:11. | |
into the water to help him. Incredibly, organisers say the pilot | :17:12. | :17:15. | |
suffered only minor injuries. It almost seems like slow motion, | :17:16. | :17:26. | |
an air crash with an audience. The cockpit now under water, | :17:27. | :17:33. | |
dozens of those watching wade out This is me coming in, | :17:34. | :17:36. | |
and my friend there. He was under water then | :17:37. | :17:48. | |
and he was strapped in so I just Then the others arrived | :17:49. | :17:51. | |
and were able to flip it over and then a few seconds | :17:52. | :17:57. | |
after he was talking to us. He had a little gash | :17:58. | :17:59. | |
on his head but he was able This is the pilot being | :18:00. | :18:02. | |
supported but walking His display team have thanked | :18:03. | :18:06. | |
all those who helped and said the pilot was back at home | :18:07. | :18:10. | |
after being checked over The rules governing British airshows | :18:11. | :18:13. | |
were tightened after the Shoreham air disaster which claimed 11 lives | :18:14. | :18:19. | |
just under a year ago. At the end of the day flight | :18:20. | :18:25. | |
safety rests eventually And in this case at Herne Bay | :18:26. | :18:27. | |
the captain made a very sensible decision, it affected nobody else | :18:28. | :18:32. | |
other than him. And everybody walked | :18:33. | :18:34. | |
away very happy from it. The Air Accidents Investigation | :18:35. | :18:37. | |
Branch is inspecting the plane and looking at footage like this | :18:38. | :18:40. | |
to work out exactly what happened. A brief look at some | :18:41. | :18:48. | |
of the day's other news stories. Workers at Sports Direct's | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
Derbyshire base will receive back pay totalling around ?1 million | :18:52. | :18:54. | |
after the retailer admitted not The Unite union said the payments, | :18:55. | :18:58. | |
backdated to May 2012, could be worth up to ?1,000 | :18:59. | :19:03. | |
for some workers. Energy companies have agreed | :19:04. | :19:08. | |
to refund thousands of customers after mistakes were made | :19:09. | :19:10. | |
reading their gas meters. Companies confused imperial | :19:11. | :19:14. | |
and metric measurements, which saw some customers overcharged | :19:15. | :19:17. | |
while others paid less A law firm that brought claims | :19:18. | :19:19. | |
alleging misconduct by British troops during the Iraq War | :19:20. | :19:24. | |
is to close. Public Interest Lawyers was stripped | :19:25. | :19:27. | |
of access to state legal funding The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon | :19:28. | :19:29. | |
has described the move as "the right The Labour leadership contender | :19:30. | :19:34. | |
Owen Smith has accused the Government of being behind | :19:35. | :19:44. | |
a "secret plan to privatise He says that NHS spending | :19:45. | :19:46. | |
on the private sector has doubled since the Conservatives returned | :19:47. | :19:50. | |
to Government six years ago. The Department of Health says it's | :19:51. | :19:53. | |
"committed to the values of the NHS" 30 compressions. Alongside trainee | :19:54. | :20:16. | |
nurses, when Smith attempts to bring a fake patient back to life. He is | :20:17. | :20:19. | |
not breathing! Perhaps it is Labour causing more concern. He thinks he | :20:20. | :20:24. | |
could be the leader to revive the party's fortunes. Today promising if | :20:25. | :20:28. | |
elected he would cut back on private contractors in the NHS. The | :20:29. | :20:32. | |
fundamental, essential ethos should be about public provision, publicly | :20:33. | :20:39. | |
owned, publicly provided services. Labour opened the NHS to independent | :20:40. | :20:42. | |
providers to offer some treatments in 2002. They use increased under | :20:43. | :20:50. | |
the clinician. The latest Department of Health figures show 7.6% of the | :20:51. | :20:53. | |
NHS budget goes to independent providers. He claimed the Tories are | :20:54. | :21:00. | |
secretly privatising the NHS, but the Government says the use of | :21:01. | :21:03. | |
private contracts grew faster under Labour. Today I win Smith, used to | :21:04. | :21:10. | |
work a pharmaceutical firm, said all clinical and care services should be | :21:11. | :21:14. | |
publicly run. People have tried to say because I worked for a biotech | :21:15. | :21:17. | |
firm eye and somehow in favour of private provision. I opposed it. | :21:18. | :21:24. | |
This speech, like his others, what a pitch to the left of the party. He | :21:25. | :21:29. | |
hopes by brandishing his socialist potentials, proving he is radical | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
yet credible, he can win support from his rival, Jeremy Corbyn. His | :21:34. | :21:39. | |
supporters say his opponent is simply mimicking his policies. You | :21:40. | :21:42. | |
know what they say about imitation being flattery. Jeremy may be | :21:43. | :21:49. | |
flattered. He has already is -- he has always stood for a publicly | :21:50. | :21:52. | |
funded, publicly owned health service. Raising the NHS was not | :21:53. | :21:59. | |
intended to expose big policy differences between Labour's | :22:00. | :22:03. | |
leadership contenders. It was the side to appeal to party members' | :22:04. | :22:04. | |
Hearts. Corks may have been popping over the | :22:05. | :22:16. | |
weekend, and in the last few years written has developed a thirst for | :22:17. | :22:17. | |
sparkling wine. According to figures from the tax | :22:18. | :22:19. | |
man, there has been a huge rise More than 17.5 million | :22:20. | :22:22. | |
gallons of sparkling wines Since then, that figure | :22:23. | :22:25. | |
has almost doubled. A lot of the fizz is imported | :22:26. | :22:28. | |
from France, Spain and Italy, but more and more of it is now | :22:29. | :22:31. | |
being made at home. Our correspondent Frankie | :22:32. | :22:34. | |
McCamley is at a vineyard It is a similar picture. Sales of | :22:35. | :22:51. | |
English sparkling wine have increased dramatically over the last | :22:52. | :22:57. | |
few years, brands are becoming more established, and it is more common | :22:58. | :23:01. | |
to see a bottle of wine grown in this country on the supermarket | :23:02. | :23:05. | |
shelves. There is also much more investment in the industry. In 2015 | :23:06. | :23:11. | |
alone 37 new vineyards and wine producers opened. Tell us, why do | :23:12. | :23:19. | |
you think we have seen this increase? Is it because of the taste | :23:20. | :23:25. | |
because it is more available? The taste is fantastic, the quality has | :23:26. | :23:28. | |
always been paramount in English wine production. Year on year | :23:29. | :23:33. | |
English wine producers are producing sparkling wine that is winning | :23:34. | :23:38. | |
international awards, the Gucci demand is there, on the rise, and we | :23:39. | :23:42. | |
have fantastic weather and we are producing a brilliant wine. We have | :23:43. | :23:47. | |
got the greatest behind us, when are these going to be ready for harvest? | :23:48. | :23:52. | |
They are going to be harvested in October. Like we hear there, the | :23:53. | :24:01. | |
wine is not going to be ready just yet, so we will have to wait for | :24:02. | :24:02. | |
this wine for just a few moments. The team is only seven strong | :24:03. | :24:05. | |
and they have yet to win a medal, but Olympic officials have told | :24:06. | :24:09. | |
the BBC that the much-celebrated international refugee | :24:10. | :24:11. | |
team is here to stay. It's the first time they've appeared | :24:12. | :24:13. | |
at the Olympics and it's hoped the team will draw attention | :24:14. | :24:16. | |
to the plight of 60 million Wyre Davies has been | :24:17. | :24:18. | |
following their progress and asks what will happen | :24:19. | :24:22. | |
to the athletes after the Games. Of all the great swimming | :24:23. | :24:27. | |
performances at Rio 2016, few perhaps matched the achievements | :24:28. | :24:31. | |
of 18-year-old Yusra Mardini. A 50-metre Olympic pool a far cry | :24:32. | :24:37. | |
from the stormy Agean Sea through which she swam for three | :24:38. | :24:40. | |
hours, towing a boat full Disappointment that she failed | :24:41. | :24:43. | |
to qualify from her heats in Rio, but everything has to be | :24:44. | :24:50. | |
put into perspective. Sometimes we hear the news | :24:51. | :24:52. | |
before we go to bed, so sometimes it's hard | :24:53. | :24:55. | |
to concentrate on swimming. But in this situation | :24:56. | :24:58. | |
and your position, you have to sometimes concentrate | :24:59. | :25:01. | |
on what you have, not what you lost. The Olympic refugee team, | :25:02. | :25:08. | |
ten athletes from the Middle East, Central and Eastern Africa, got one | :25:09. | :25:11. | |
of the biggest cheers of the night Each individual with a different | :25:12. | :25:15. | |
story of overcoming adversity. Just like Yusra, Popole Masenga | :25:16. | :25:22. | |
is a fighter. He fled war in his native Congo, | :25:23. | :25:25. | |
a conflict which claimed the life Sport, he says, has given him | :25:26. | :25:28. | |
identity and purpose. TRANSLATION: When I entered | :25:29. | :25:38. | |
the arena, there were hundreds I couldn't believe my eyes, | :25:39. | :25:40. | |
they were chanting my name. The idea of a refugee | :25:41. | :25:46. | |
team seems inspired. Its members are media stars | :25:47. | :25:51. | |
and they're hugely popular But what happens when all of this is | :25:52. | :25:55. | |
over and everybody else goes home? And what of the idea that brought | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
them together in the first place? The IOC says it created this | :26:02. | :26:05. | |
team not as a PR stunt, but to draw attention | :26:06. | :26:09. | |
to the 60 million displaced The idea of the refugee Olympic | :26:10. | :26:12. | |
team is that one day it That actually these refugees, | :26:13. | :26:17. | |
each of them hopefully, we will be able to help them find | :26:18. | :26:22. | |
a new home and a new national Olympic committee and help | :26:23. | :26:26. | |
them in their training. Yusra says she wants her | :26:27. | :26:28. | |
Olympic dream to continue These individuals have | :26:29. | :26:31. | |
certainly bonded as a team, and they've definitely | :26:32. | :26:38. | |
made their mark on the Games. A fine summer's date today, the | :26:39. | :26:56. | |
weather watchers captured sunny skies all the way from the north of | :26:57. | :26:59. | |
Scotland to the south of England and the Channel Islands. Very pleasant | :27:00. | :27:04. | |
in the sunshine, but the warmth disappears by night. Green colours | :27:05. | :27:10. | |
into the morning across rural Scotland, northern England and | :27:11. | :27:18. | |
Wales. It is only a brief chill. As soon as the sun gets up, | :27:19. | :27:23. | |
temperatures are on the rise again. Another day of clear blue skies. | :27:24. | :27:29. | |
Subtle changes, a breeze of the East can towards eastern England. A bit | :27:30. | :27:33. | |
call, but the warmest weather between Cardiff and Birmingham. If | :27:34. | :27:38. | |
you are planning to head to the beach, West is best for the warmth. | :27:39. | :27:44. | |
We finished the day on a fine note for many, but the chance of one or | :27:45. | :27:47. | |
two isolated showers for Northern Ireland. They will be head of this | :27:48. | :27:54. | |
weather front. It will bring the risk of thundery rain into Northern | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
Ireland, especially in the West. Another fine sunny summer's date. | :28:00. | :28:09. | |
The warmest of the weather through the Midlands and the south coast. | :28:10. | :28:13. | |
More substantial change across Ireland and into Wales and southern | :28:14. | :28:19. | |
England into Thursday. The potential for slower moving, torrential | :28:20. | :28:21. | |
thundery downpours. It will not rain all day long, there will be some dry | :28:22. | :28:30. | |
weather across the South. It will feel cooler in Scotland, and that | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
continues into the weekend. That's all from the BBC News At Six, | :28:35. | :28:37. | |
so it's goodbye from me, and on BBC One we now join the BBC's | :28:38. | :28:40. | |
news teams where you are. | :28:41. | :28:42. |