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Hello, I'm Lizzie Greenwood Hughes, welcome to the BBC Sport Centre.

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Wedded badminton bliss, sublime soccer skills on crutches

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But first let's take a quick look at some

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Defending champions Great Britain will go into today's

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Davis Cup doubles tied at 1-1 with Japan.

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Andy Murray won his singles rubber but Dan Evans was beaten.

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Great Britain has a new track cycling star after John Dibben

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stormed to victory in the scrtach race at the World Championships.

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Britain also won two bronzes on day three.

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And it's being billed as 'the biggest North London derby'

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ever - as second-placed Tottenham host third-placed Arsenal

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in the Premier League's lunchtime game.

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It is still 0-0. Many of us play competitive sports with our partners

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but very few take it to an international level. Gaby and Chris

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Adcock have done that. Two years ago, the Badminton duo became the

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first husband and wife team to win Commonwealth gold and they have Rio

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in their site. -- sights. Yes, for the first time ever, husband and

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wife have won the gold medal in the mixed doubles. It was massive for

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us, we wanted to achieve one thing, bringing back the gold medal, and we

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did. They said a couple that played together stay together and the two

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have taken it to a world beating level. Would you say that marriage

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is a help or hindrance to success? We do not have another frame of

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reference to judge it. Should more of your players get married? I don't

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know about that. For them, it is really good because they can invest

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their time in the same direction. Gaby and Chris train for seven hours

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a day, six days a week, and they eat, sleep, breathe Badminton but

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away from the court it is a different story. The life we lead,

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we cannot complain, or we enjoy what we are doing, and we enjoy our time

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at home, especially when we have our dog. If we are playing all right and

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doing OK, we enjoy it even more. Is there any moment when you think, we

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are always here, would be go to work, when we wake up in the

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morning? A lot of people say they could not do it. Their tournaments

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when things do not go as well, and it is nobody's fold, and that can be

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more difficult because we are both so driven and really disappointed.

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-- fault. Low moments have been few and far between. Commonwealth

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champions and seven in the world rankings, they have a good chance of

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an Olympic medal. We have played them a lot. It is the Olympics but

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it is another Badminton tournament and we want to play well and win.

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One more Badminton tournament week and hopefully do well in. Good luck

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to both of them for this week's All-England Championships in

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Birmingham. If you have not seen this clip, concentrate. Look at this

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goal scored in the people's cup semifinal last weekend. They have

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become the talk of the competition. Luckily we were already filming them

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for the BBC's Get Inspired story. You are in the workshop where we

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make static limbs. This is where Ray, the guy who formed the team

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originally, approached me and asked if I could help out and get some

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players to get the Portsmouth team up and running. The centre forward.

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TJ, the bearded monster. Mike, dopey. He is an arm amputee. Rob is

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in goal, a big an arm amputee. Chris, miserable, and amputee.

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Roger, Mr hairdo. And amputee. Midfield, centre-half, plays

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wherever he once. Ray, a GB star and Internet sensation. I used to travel

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up to Manchester to play football with a different team so I started

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one in Portsmouth so I did not have to travel so far, and for other

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amputees as well. We play using our crotches, not with our legs, to make

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it an even keel. Every amputee has a different ability. We are playing

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with a mixed bag of disabilities. It could be anything from learning

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difficulties, deaf teams, they will all have two legs versus R one. When

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we first started, it is quite hard. The more you get into the game, the

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more you forget you have crutches. You forget everything and go for it.

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Amputee football has become really big, it has a big following. If you

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come into the changing room and hear the banter, it can be nasty but very

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funny. Everyone supports each other, everyone gives a little bit, it is

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really good fun. It went really well today, we got to be final and won

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5-2. We were a bit shaky and we went down but we came back, composed, and

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finished off. Well, the Portsmouth team got through to the semifinal

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weekend in two weeks' time and you can see more of their semifinal

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heroics in the people's cup on BBC iPlayer later today. This summer,

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golf will be part of the Olympics for the first time in more than is

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entry with the world's best going for gold in Rio. While many players

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would choose a major win over an Olympic medal, everyone agrees that

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inclusion in the game is a chance to show off golf to a new audience,

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thickly in the women's game. Tae kwon do to athletics to cycling and

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more, the Olympics have helped define some of Great Britain's

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biggest female sporting stars, and now golf. Yes, golf. It would be

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amazing to say I am playing in the Olympics and I am Olympian, and

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hopefully come away with winning something. It is a goal of mine to

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get in it and try and win it, and it is an event you have always watched

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growing up, and I loved watching the London Olympics, so it will be a

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great experience to play in it. For the first time in over 100 years,

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golf will appear in the Olympics, likely to lead Team GB's medal

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charge is the young and old generation. Charlie is a young

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rising star while this woman has 11 titles. Having grown up dreaming of

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major success, is the Olympics one to look for? For me, it would be a

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Major. Ever since I was younger, it would be winning a major, so winning

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the British Open. Perhaps not the ultimate prize just yet but for a

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sport desperate to attract a growing number of members, this could be

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good. You would get more people growing, and you can't get any

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bigger than the Olympics so it should hopefully encourage more

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girls and boys. Tottenham - Arsenal

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is still goalless. It is looking pretty entertaining so

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far. There is live commentary. Next up on BBC One are highlights of the

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cycling and the Davis Cup. Have a good afternoon, goodbye.

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Then get involved in Sport Relief 2016

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