23/01/2017 Newsround

Hi, everyone.

I'm Ayshah, with your Newsround stories.

Coming up in the next few minutes: The balloon race that's going up.

And the Chinese buildings that are coming down

First up, we loved her at the London and Rio Olympic Games,

but boxing superstar Nicola Adams has said she won't be

going to the next Olympics and will now turn professional.

That means she'll be earning money by having big fights on TV rather

than funding from Team GB as an amateur Olympic athlete.

She said the time was right.

I wanted to leave the amateur game a world champion as well as a double

Olympic champion, so I decided to stay and fulfil my goals.

I wanted to be a double Olympic champion,

world champion and leave ranked number one as well.

To another sport, but one that's called the Formula 1

of the ice skating world - longtrack speedskating!

A hundred years ago, it was Great Britain who dominated,

but now the Team GB team have a new home in the Netherlands.

Martin explains.

The frozen Fens in east England was the home of a traditional form

of ice-skating called track speed skating, where people would race

each other on a frozen lake around a long track.

However, in recent years the temperatures have risen

and the Fens rarely freeze over.

This meant the popularity of track speed skating dropped in the UK.

However, here in the Netherlands, it is booming and some of the UK's

best long track speed skaters are now training here at this giant

arena for competitions.

Let's find out why people enjoy speed skating.

I feel like I'm part of the wind!

The first couple of steps you really need to be explosive,

really need to get that speed up and then on the second bit,

you can accelerate and really finish your stride.

It's hoped that top facilities like this will encourage people

to try out long track speed skating.

Next up, it's barely the time it takes to tie your laces,

but ten seconds is all it took for 19 buildings to be blown up

in a controlled explosion in China.

Demolition experts used five tonnes of explosives, which brought down

the buildings in Wuhan.

It's all to make way for a 700m tall skyscraper.

Now, some of you may play musical instruments,

but can you imagine coming from a home where everyone

is a top musician?

Well, I met one family who are all musically in-tune.

I play the violin.

I play the cello.

I play the piano.

I play the violin.

I play the cello.

Meet the Kanneh-Mason family.

They're all - you've guessed it - pretty

musical.

You guys come from a really musical family, don't you?

Yes.

Tell me a little bit about it.

It's busy and exciting.

It can be very noisy and it can be kind of annoying when

you wake up.

I'm rather used to it when I always wake up and I can

always hear the noise and sound of music.

What do you love about music and why?

I love music because it just has a lovely, nice sound with

every instrument.

What I love about music is the fact that everyone is

different, it's not like maths where every answer is exactly the same.

You all play musical instruments, what is it

like to play as a group?

When we all get together, it's really nice and

it's just really noisy and I like that.

It's really nice playing with siblings, because it's easy to tell

them what to do without putting it into words, they just kind of know

what to do next.

You just look at people.

Yeah, and they just know what to do.

I couldn't leave this musical home without asking them for

one musical request.

Could you play the Newsround theme music?

NEWSROUND THEME

Not bad, guys.

Not bad.

Where do you see a floating washing up liquid bottle,

bottles of champagne

and even giant Lego men?

It's not a riddle - only one place - hot air balloon races.

This is an International Hot Air Balloon festival in the Swiss alps.

Doesn't it look totally amazing in all that snow?

That's it from me, but go online to see why YouTube star Dan TDM

is in trouble with the Fire Service about these guys.

See you tomorrow at 7.40am.

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