26/08/2016

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:00:00. > :00:09.I'm Martin with the day's top news coming up.

:00:10. > :00:16.A gymnast meets her olympic hero live on the show.

:00:17. > :00:23.And I am at Blackpool zoo trying to solve an elephant mystery with Kate.

:00:24. > :00:26.-- cake. Laura Trott, Katie Archibald,

:00:27. > :00:32.Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Elinor Barker weren't content

:00:33. > :00:34.with gold at the Rio No, they had to go one better

:00:35. > :00:39.and set a brand new world record in the women's

:00:40. > :00:42.team pursuit, too. Now, they're back in the UK,

:00:43. > :00:46.we thought who better to grill them COMMENTATOR: 'Gold for

:00:47. > :00:52.Great Britain.' I watched the Athens Olympics

:00:53. > :00:59.and saw Bradley Wiggins win three medals and Chris Hoy and Kelly

:01:00. > :01:02.Holmes win two golds in the Those were my three big athletes

:01:03. > :01:06.who were inspirational. Did you also win races

:01:07. > :01:09.when you were younger? My first race was

:01:10. > :01:11.actually a BMX race. Even when other people fell off,

:01:12. > :01:17.and I didn't, they'd still When you were out training

:01:18. > :01:21.on the road, what is your favourite Becky James's carrot

:01:22. > :01:28.cake is the best thing Did you always want to be

:01:29. > :01:32.an Olympic cyclist? But there wasn't actually

:01:33. > :01:36.a girls football team when I wanted to be a vet

:01:37. > :01:41.when I was younger. I wanted to win the

:01:42. > :01:43.local race, then my And then you get a chance

:01:44. > :01:48.and you want to win an Suddenly you are going

:01:49. > :01:51.after an Olympic medal. And if that wasn't exciting enough,

:01:52. > :01:53.this morning, live on air we surprised 13-year-old

:01:54. > :01:56.gymnast Ciara with a visit from her olympic hero, bronze medal

:01:57. > :01:59.winner Amy Tinkler. A little bit of a surprise

:02:00. > :02:04.for you actually. Ciara wants to be

:02:05. > :02:26.a gymnast just like you. I mean, just the experience

:02:27. > :02:35.and to be able to share the podium alongside great

:02:36. > :02:37.athletes, it was incredible. Amy, have you got any advice

:02:38. > :02:43.for a young gymnast like Ciara here to do what you have just done

:02:44. > :02:46.and get the My coach said to me,

:02:47. > :02:52.go out there, you have nothing to I felt that I did and all my

:02:53. > :02:57.hard work paid off. Next, we meet the elephant on the

:02:58. > :03:01.search for her long-lost keeper. Then, it's on to her

:03:02. > :03:14.daily foot massage and We just keep on top of it to make

:03:15. > :03:22.sure no stones or anything Pedicure done, and time

:03:23. > :03:25.to play outside. Kate was one of the first animals

:03:26. > :03:28.to arrive here at Blackpool Zoo when it opened

:03:29. > :03:34.almost 45 years ago. She came over with another

:03:35. > :03:36.elephant called Crumple. Across from Mysore which is

:03:37. > :03:48.in the south of India. And the person who knows most

:03:49. > :03:49.about their journey is

:03:50. > :03:51.a man called He was the keeper who looked

:03:52. > :03:58.after Kate and now the zoo want to He worked at the zoo

:03:59. > :04:03.in the '60s and '70s. He went to collect two

:04:04. > :04:05.orphaned elephants. They jumped aboard a ship in sunny

:04:06. > :04:08.India and one month and 8,500 miles of ocean later,

:04:09. > :04:10.they finally Before the zoo celebrates

:04:11. > :04:16.its birthday next year, they We don't know what's

:04:17. > :04:20.going on inside her head, But Dennis can fill in those

:04:21. > :04:27.gaps hopefully for us. So, it will be amazing

:04:28. > :04:29.to see what So, no-one else knows

:04:30. > :04:33.anything else about And did you know elephants do around

:04:34. > :04:50.130 kilogrames of poo a day? Well, there are plenty more

:04:51. > :04:56.brilliant facts like that That's all from me, Newsround's

:04:57. > :04:59.back right here tomorrow