26/08/2016 Newsround


26/08/2016

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I'm Martin with the day's top news coming up.

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A gymnast meets her olympic hero live on the show.

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And I am at Blackpool zoo trying to solve an elephant mystery with Kate.

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-- cake. Laura Trott, Katie Archibald,

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Joanna Rowsell-Shand and Elinor Barker weren't content

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with gold at the Rio No, they had to go one better

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and set a brand new world record in the women's

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team pursuit, too. Now, they're back in the UK,

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we thought who better to grill them COMMENTATOR: 'Gold for

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Great Britain.' I watched the Athens Olympics

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and saw Bradley Wiggins win three medals and Chris Hoy and Kelly

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Holmes win two golds in the Those were my three big athletes

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who were inspirational. Did you also win races

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when you were younger? My first race was

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actually a BMX race. Even when other people fell off,

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and I didn't, they'd still When you were out training

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on the road, what is your favourite Becky James's carrot

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cake is the best thing Did you always want to be

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an Olympic cyclist? But there wasn't actually

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a girls football team when I wanted to be a vet

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when I was younger. I wanted to win the

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local race, then my And then you get a chance

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and you want to win an Suddenly you are going

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after an Olympic medal. And if that wasn't exciting enough,

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this morning, live on air we surprised 13-year-old

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gymnast Ciara with a visit from her olympic hero, bronze medal

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winner Amy Tinkler. A little bit of a surprise

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for you actually. Ciara wants to be

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a gymnast just like you. I mean, just the experience

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and to be able to share the podium alongside great

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athletes, it was incredible. Amy, have you got any advice

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for a young gymnast like Ciara here to do what you have just done

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and get the My coach said to me,

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go out there, you have nothing to I felt that I did and all my

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hard work paid off. Next, we meet the elephant on the

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search for her long-lost keeper. Then, it's on to her

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daily foot massage and We just keep on top of it to make

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sure no stones or anything Pedicure done, and time

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to play outside. Kate was one of the first animals

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to arrive here at Blackpool Zoo when it opened

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almost 45 years ago. She came over with another

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elephant called Crumple. Across from Mysore which is

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in the south of India. And the person who knows most

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about their journey is

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a man called He was the keeper who looked

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after Kate and now the zoo want to He worked at the zoo

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in the '60s and '70s. He went to collect two

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orphaned elephants. They jumped aboard a ship in sunny

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India and one month and 8,500 miles of ocean later,

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they finally Before the zoo celebrates

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its birthday next year, they We don't know what's

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going on inside her head, But Dennis can fill in those

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gaps hopefully for us. So, it will be amazing

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to see what So, no-one else knows

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anything else about And did you know elephants do around

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130 kilogrames of poo a day? Well, there are plenty more

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brilliant facts like that That's all from me, Newsround's

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back right here tomorrow

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