13/10/2016 Newsround


13/10/2016

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It's 4.21pm this Thursday afternoon, you're watching

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The bridge that demolition crews found hard to bring down.

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England's women footballers' message to girls who are

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A tough decision but the right one, that's how Team GB star

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Jessica Ennis-Hill has described her choice to retire.

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The athlete won an unforgettable gold in the heptathlon at the London

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2012 Olympics and followed that up with a silver in Rio

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She said today that she wants to leave the sport on a high,

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Well, the heptathlon has seven events,

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so I've been taking a look-back at the seven big

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Her journey begins in 1986 in Sheffield. From a young age she took

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up athletics and have potential was obvious. Her first big success came

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when she won bronze at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. Jesper Emmy

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announced herself on the world stage when she won her first gold medal in

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2009 at the World Championships in barely in. Then, the big one

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defining moment that came at the 2012 Olympics when she became

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Olympic heptathlon champion. At this she took some time away from

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athletics, got married becoming Jessica Ennis-Hill. Then in 2014

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became a monster baby, Reggie. But she was soon back on the track

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winning another gold-medal. -- became a mother. Six months ago she

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won a silver medal at the Rio Olympics, capping a remarkable

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Olympics career. And that is Jess 's journey.

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Fellow British heptathlete Katarina Johnson-Thompson has called

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She tweeted that Jess was "a real inspiration to me

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Well, among those many others are pupils at Jess's former

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secondary school in Sheffield, who have sent us these messages.

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Thank you for such a huge inspiration to people all over the

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UK, particularly our school. Ever since I saw you do hurdles inspired

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me to start doing them, I did last summer and I did well. Good luck in

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the future, thank you for inspiring me. Since watching Jessica

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Ennis-Hill in the Olympics I've been inspired to do other sports like

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running and jumping. Bank you Jesper being such an inspiration to my

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athletics and training. -- thank you Jess.

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Also inspiring girls and boys are England's women footballers,

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who are about to start preparing for next year's European

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Championships finals with a friendly against France next Friday.

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Ricky's been catching up with two of their star players,

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The World Cup was incredible and the bronze medal, we are all ecstatic to

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get that. But we are excited to get the Euro qualification out the way.

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Moving on from the World Cup, it was a fantastic tournament and we need

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to move on and show we can do it again, that it wasn't a one-off. How

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do you feel when you get to wear that outfit, put that up on comedy

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still get a bit of a buzz? Yes, absolutely. You would be lying AG

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said that you didn't. When you get new kit everyone is buzzing. You

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like a kid because you are so excited. It is a real privilege and

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we're very lucky to be on the situation that we are. What would

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you say to a young girl out there there who is into Dell's football

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but isn't getting mean college meant -- but isn't getting encouragement.

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We know what it feels like to go through school, your body is

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changing and perhaps you don't want to do sport... You got to stand tall

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and say you want to play women's football.

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This 93-year-old bridge in Arkansas in the US has been pulled down.It's

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making way for a new one in the city of Little Rock.

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Demolition crews had tried to bring it down using explosives earlier,

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but it didn't work, so they ended up having

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That's all from me, Newsround's back tomorrow morning at 7.40am.

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