02/08/2016 Newsround


02/08/2016

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Good afternoon, you're live with Newsround,

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Ayshah here with a look at what's going on today.

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Sinking low - this sinkhole opens up in a garden in Australia.

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And flying high - thousands of mayflies take

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over a bridge in Poland.

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But first he's one of the most famous faces of Team GB.

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And with the Olympic Games just three days away

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Tom Daley has landed in Rio - a moment he's been working

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towards for eight years.

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Hi, I'm Tom Daley and over the last eight years,

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I've been working as hard as I possibly can to make my third

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Olympic dream come true.

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It started back in 2008 in Beijing, when I qualified when I was 13 years

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old and managed to compete when I was 14.

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And then in 2009, I won the World Championships.

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Ever since I got the taste of being on top of the world,

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I've always wanted to win an Olympic gold medal.

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Then in London 2012, it was the home Olympics,

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the most exciting thing ever.

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There was 18,000 people coming to support me.

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My friends, my family, millions watching at home.

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So there was a lot of pressure.

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To come away with an Olympic bronze medal was something that

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I've always dreamt of.

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And then after that into 2013, was one of my toughest

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years of diving.

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I was injured with a bad tricep.

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I was so terrified every single time I went to the diving board.

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But I managed to get through it, and I took a little bit of time out.

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I took six weeks to go and travel the world and do what I wanted

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to do, to try and reset my brain.

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Then I came back to diving, and wanted a little bit of a change.

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So I moved to London, and I had a new coach.

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And since then, I haven't really looked back.

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I've been working as hard as I possibly can.

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And then I also had to learn a new dive, which is a three

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and a half somersault with one twist.

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And that's something that was a bit of a risk, actually,

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to learn a new dive so close to the Olympic Games.

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But I feel like I'm in my peak form, peak shape.

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I just want to go out there and win an Olympic gold medal.

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Good luck, Tom.

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Toymakers have been getting into the Olympic spirit too,

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with this massive Lego model of Rio.

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More than 50 people from three different countries were involved

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in building it, they used around 953,000 pieces.

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They've created famous Rio landmarks, Olympic stadiums,

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and even athletes competing in the games.

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Now this isn't an Olympic sport, but it's just as impressive!

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13-year-old Ally set himself the challenge of going to every

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single London Underground station in just one day.

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Jenny has the story.

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Lets go!

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It's just after 10am, and Ally is on a very special

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journey with his mum and dad.

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They're trying to travel through every tube station

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on the London Underground network, all 270 of them.

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We've just been through the 67th station.

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67th station, OK.

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And next is London Bridge.

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They started in Chesham, more than 30 miles from the city

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centre, where they only had the tube driver

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for company.

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Over 7000.

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?7,000 and 84p.

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Wow.

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So we've gone up 1000 in a day.

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Very good.

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They're raising money for a cancer research charity after Ally's older

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brother died earlier this year.

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It was obviously very hard for me.

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He unfortunately passed away after all the treatment

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in March this year.

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So, I decided to make sure no one else has to go through that,

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that I would raise funds.

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Difficult, but it's quite a positive thing.

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We've had so much support from so many people.

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All through London, people we've never met,

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Transport for London.

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The charity itself.

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It's all been very feel-good in that respect.

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So yeah, it's hard, we wish we weren't having to do this.

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But it's also been a really, really positive experience as well.

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It was a lot of hard work, but Ally made it to his final stop

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and completed his challenge.

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Well done Ally.

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Staying with an underground theme - kind of.

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This sinkhole has appeared in the back garden of

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a house in Australia.

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It opened up to show swirling water and grew to eight metres wide.

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Thankfully no-one's been hurt.

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It's thought it could have been caused by an old mine shaft.

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And from sinking low to flying high - these incredible pictures show

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hundreds of thousands of mayflies taking over a bridge

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in south-eastern Poland.

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They're not harmful to humans and it's believed to show

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the environment is clean, because mayflies live

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in fresh water.

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That's it for now, Newsround is back tomorrow morning at 7:40.

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See you soon.

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