23/07/2017 Newsround


23/07/2017

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Hi, Whitney here, live on CBBC with your latest Newsround update.

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First to New Zealand's south island where thousands of people

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are returning to their homes after a huge storm.

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Torrential rain caused serious flooding and landslides left

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And it was the grand final of Pitch Battle last

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night and singing group Leeds Contemporary Singers

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That was the moment they won, beating All The Kings Men.

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30 hopeful groups were narrowed down to just six over five weeks.

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Well, we want to know if you think the best group won.

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Head over to Newsround online and have your say.

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England's women are playing India in the Cricket

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It's a sell out match and if England win, it'll

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They are currently battling now. It looks like rain had stopped play at

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any moment. -- could stop play. We'll be live from

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Lord's just after two. Britain's Chris Froome

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is on track to win the Tour He increased his overall

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lead yesterday. Today's final stage will take them

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to Paris and it's tradition that the other cyclists do not

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challenge the leader It will be the third year in a row

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that Froome will have won the Tour. And Tom Daley became

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a world champion yesterday. The British Olympic diver

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from Plymouth took gold, in the ten metre platform final

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in Budapest, his first solo win in eight years,

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just ahead of Olympic champ And there are more gold

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medals for Great Britain in the World Para-athletics

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Championships in London. beating team mate Kadeena Cox

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who came in second. Georgie Hermitage won her

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second gold in the T37 And in the shot put,

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Aled Davis took gold. Britain's medal total

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now stands at 35. I'm just so happy that I've done it

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because I've been in the shape for months and shot has

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been the full focus. And I told my coach earlier

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on in the year I want to throw a PB, a world record at a home game,

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at the home champions. Now to a new style of horse

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eventing, hoping to bring a little A young super fan has

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been finding out more. I love all things riding

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and I even enjoy lessons. I've been riding since

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I was about five, but I'm here today to find how

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the professionals do it. This is the Event Rider Masters,

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a new type of eventing competition. I can't wait to see

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the riders in action. Eventing is also known

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as horse trials. The competition has

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three different stages. Dressage, cross-country

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and showjumping. One of the riders here today

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is Gemma Tattersall, she is a very experienced competitor

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and she was part of What makes the Event Rider Masters

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different to other competitions? Event Rider Masters is a shortened,

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more exciting version of eventing so it's actually the top 40 riders

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in the world who come forward, which makes it very, very

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competitive and the build-up towards the end of the competition really

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exciting for spectators and riders. Well done on your lovely

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showjumping round. How are you feeling

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now you're in seventh The mare's a new ride for me

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and it's only the second time at this level so to jump

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a really good clear round, to be in the top ten

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isreally exciting. I'm going to be giving

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the cross-country my best shot. The overall winner

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is the rider with the fewest penalties

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after the three stages. How do you feel to

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win such a big event? It's a really special

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feeling because it doesn't happen very often and I just

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get the impression I've succeeded in achieving

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one of my dreams. The idea behind the Event

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Rider Masters is to make traditional eventing

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faster and more exciting. I have had a great day and

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I hope to be competing in it Olympic superhero Michael Phelps

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is one of the fastest swimmers on Earth, but he is taking up

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a pretty weird challenge this Michael Phelps, superhuman swimmer,

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world record holder and owner of But what do you do

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when you're one of the greatest professional

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swimmers in the world? As part of a special challenge,

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Michael will attempt to swim faster than a great white shark

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in a 100 metre race. Great white sharks can swim up

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to speeds of 25 mph Whereas Michael can only swim

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around six miles per hour. Michael will be wearing a special

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mono fin, a bit like a mermaid tail, to help propel him

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through the water faster. But we'll have to wait

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and see how he does. That's all from me, Newsround's back

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right here just after two when we'll

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