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It's 4.21pm this Thursday afternoon, you're watching | :00:00. | :00:00. | |
The bridge that demolition crews found hard to bring down. | :00:07. | :00:12. | |
England's women footballers' message to girls who are | :00:13. | :00:19. | |
A tough decision but the right one, that's how Team GB star | :00:20. | :00:31. | |
Jessica Ennis-Hill has described her choice to retire. | :00:32. | :00:35. | |
The athlete won an unforgettable gold in the heptathlon at the London | :00:36. | :00:42. | |
2012 Olympics and followed that up with a silver in Rio | :00:43. | :00:45. | |
She said today that she wants to leave the sport on a high, | :00:46. | :00:49. | |
Well, the heptathlon has seven events, | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
so I've been taking a look-back at the seven big | :00:53. | :00:55. | |
Her journey begins in 1986 in Sheffield. From a young age she took | :00:56. | :01:10. | |
up athletics and have potential was obvious. Her first big success came | :01:11. | :01:15. | |
when she won bronze at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Jesper Emmy | :01:16. | :01:20. | |
announced herself on the world stage when she won her first gold medal in | :01:21. | :01:26. | |
2009 at the World Championships in barely in. Then, the big one | :01:27. | :01:32. | |
defining moment that came at the 2012 Olympics when she became | :01:33. | :01:37. | |
Olympic heptathlon champion. At this she took some time away from | :01:38. | :01:42. | |
athletics, got married becoming Jessica Ennis-Hill. Then in 2014 | :01:43. | :01:48. | |
became a monster baby, Reggie. But she was soon back on the track | :01:49. | :01:54. | |
winning another gold-medal. -- became a mother. Six months ago she | :01:55. | :02:01. | |
won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics, capping a remarkable | :02:02. | :02:08. | |
Olympics career. And that is Jess 's journey. | :02:09. | :02:09. | |
Fellow British heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has called | :02:10. | :02:12. | |
She tweeted that Jess was "a real inspiration to me | :02:13. | :02:17. | |
Well, among those many others are pupils at Jess's former | :02:18. | :02:22. | |
secondary school in Sheffield, who have sent us these messages. | :02:23. | :02:29. | |
Thank you for such a huge inspiration to people all over the | :02:30. | :02:36. | |
UK, particularly our school. Ever since I saw you do hurdles inspired | :02:37. | :02:41. | |
me to start doing them, I did last summer and I did well. Good luck in | :02:42. | :02:49. | |
the future, thank you for inspiring me. Since watching Jessica | :02:50. | :02:52. | |
Ennis-Hill in the Olympics I've been inspired to do other sports like | :02:53. | :02:59. | |
running and jumping. Bank you Jesper being such an inspiration to my | :03:00. | :03:05. | |
athletics and training. -- thank you Jess. | :03:06. | :03:07. | |
Also inspiring girls and boys are England's women footballers, | :03:08. | :03:09. | |
who are about to start preparing for next year's European | :03:10. | :03:11. | |
Championships finals with a friendly against France next Friday. | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
Ricky's been catching up with two of their star players, | :03:15. | :03:16. | |
The World Cup was incredible and the bronze medal, we are all ecstatic to | :03:17. | :03:31. | |
get that. But we are excited to get the Euro qualification out the way. | :03:32. | :03:36. | |
Moving on from the World Cup, it was a fantastic tournament and we need | :03:37. | :03:39. | |
to move on and show we can do it again, that it wasn't a one-off. How | :03:40. | :03:43. | |
do you feel when you get to wear that outfit, put that up on comedy | :03:44. | :03:50. | |
still get a bit of a buzz? Yes, absolutely. You would be lying AG | :03:51. | :03:55. | |
said that you didn't. When you get new kit everyone is buzzing. You | :03:56. | :03:59. | |
like a kid because you are so excited. It is a real privilege and | :04:00. | :04:03. | |
we're very lucky to be on the situation that we are. What would | :04:04. | :04:06. | |
you say to a young girl out there there who is into Dell's football | :04:07. | :04:15. | |
but isn't getting mean college meant -- but isn't getting encouragement. | :04:16. | :04:20. | |
We know what it feels like to go through school, your body is | :04:21. | :04:23. | |
changing and perhaps you don't want to do sport... You got to stand tall | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
and say you want to play women's football. | :04:29. | :04:35. | |
This 93-year-old bridge in Arkansas in the US has been pulled down.It's | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
making way for a new one in the city of Little Rock. | :04:40. | :04:44. | |
Demolition crews had tried to bring it down using explosives earlier, | :04:45. | :04:47. | |
but it didn't work, so they ended up having | :04:48. | :04:49. | |
That's all from me, Newsround's back tomorrow morning at 7.40am. | :04:50. | :04:54. |