14/12/2013 Saturday Sportsday


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Hello and welcome to the BBC Sports Centre. Over the next 15 minutes, we

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will have a look to the weekend's sport, including the latest from the

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third Ashes test. This is Saturday Sportsday.

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Manchester City against Arsenal has just kicked off. We will keep you

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updated. Also coming up, frustration for the swimmers at the European

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Short course Championships. They will have another tough test ahead

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against America. Jumping over the gender divide, the

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Japanese teenager leading the way at the Winter Olympics now that women

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can begin ski jumping. Ross Hutchins was last year by those

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with Hodgkin's inferno. This year he's coming back before that, I look

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at the day's sport headlines. Justin Rose bogeyed the final hole at the

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Austrian open. He is now five shots off the lead of Sergio Garcia.

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And Anne Williams, who campaigned to overturn a verdict of accidental

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death of her son at Hillsborough, is to be posthumously honoured at the

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sports personality awards tomorrow. Now look at the second day's play,

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where England's cricketers are trying to avoid defeat against

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Australia. It has been a decent day by recent standards. At the close of

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play, England are 180-4, trailing by 205 runs. Joe Wilson has the

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latest. After two days of the third Test,

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here we are not reflecting on Australia regaining the Ashes yet.

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But it feels" another day with England feeling frustrated. They

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would have been satisfied with a start they made. But at the end of

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the day they had lost four wickets, partly due to technology,

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the day they had lost four wickets, partly but Australia got Kevin

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Pietersen out in the way they would expect to. An ambitious shot trying

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to hit it over the head of Mitchell Johnson at mid arm, athletically

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caught. Michael Carberry played his part. But when he spoke to us at the

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close of play, naturally he was reflecting on that dismissal.

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Hanging on in there is a dangerous terminology when you bat. You are

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out there to score runs. Kevin is positive player. That is what has

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made him successful. He does things that not many of us can. It is a

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shock many of us have seen him play time and time again. It is

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disappointing, but for him and asked, we want people to play

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naturally. -- and asked. At the close of play, I grabbed a word with

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Australia's waited ever fast bowler. The point I raised wasn't just a

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case of individual Australian bowlers being outstanding again

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today. It was the fact they bowled as a unit, effectively keeping to

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their plans. They have been impressive this series. They have

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executed their game plan is very well. They have put a lot of thought

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into it. They have got different plans for different batsmen. And

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they are working. They are getting results. That is what you want. To

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see something so effective, it has been brilliant. It suffocated

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England. Wickets haven't been falling, but other times they have

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been dropping them cheaply. I have never seen a match where I wanted

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the other team to win. You don't want to see England come over here

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and not really shown any heart. You want it to be a good, hard contest,

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hopefully with your team coming out.

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England will resume behind. Ben spokes -- Ben Stokes and Ian Bell

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are at the crease. There is still time to fight. But if they are going

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to make Amini for contribution, they need to do it on the third day here

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in Perth. -- a meaningful contribution.

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And for more Ashes analysis, Close of Play is on the BBC News Channel

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at 1.30 this afternoon. Now, Team GB had their most

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successful Olympics at London 2012, but no gold medals were won in the

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pool. This weekend, at the European Short Course Championships in

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Denmark, Fran Halsall has missed out on a medal again, finishing fifth in

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the 100 metres freestyle. After Denmark, Halsall joins a European

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team to take on the United States in swimming's equivalent of the Ryder

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Cup. Nick Hope looks ahead to the Duel in the Pool.

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For British swimming, London 2012 will be remembered for tears rather

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than triumph. Rebecca Adlington claimed two bronze medals. But there

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were countless near misses, none more so than with fun house all. --

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van with Halsall. I trained for years to get a medal, so it hit me

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right afterwards, that is done. It was a massive lull. I felt numb,

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really, afterwards. I had to get out of the country. I didn't want to

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hear about anything to do with Olympics. It was challenging to then

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get back into the water and not be scared of coming forth again. After

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months, Halsall arrived at the World Championships with renewed

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condiments. -- confidence. It was a bit of relief. It was a bit

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like, oh, I can do this. I am all right at this swimming lark. In the

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long-term, she aims for medals at the next Olympics. Next week she can

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see how well she is progressing. I am really excited about this. I have

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done two already. I went to Atlanta and did one on the American turf,

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which was hard. It is fabulous, my kind of swimming. Are you going to

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beat the Americans? Definitely! And you can follow the European

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team's progress at Duel in the Pool on BBC Radio5 Live next weekend. One

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of the final barriers for female competitors at the Olympics is

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falling. For the first time, ski jump will be open to both genders at

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next year's Sochi Winter Games. The favourite for that first gold medal

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is a Japanese teenager who is just four foot 11 inches tall. Ollie

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Williams has been to meet the petite prodigy at the Ski Jump World Cup in

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Lillehammer. It has taken years and a court

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battle for woman to win the right to ski jump at the Olympic Games. Now

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the fight has been won, a new one begins. The favourite for gold in

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2014 is one of the youngest keen -- skiers around. She is just 17.

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TRANSLATION: I am lucky to jump at a time when things have got better for

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us. Female ski jumpers have had to overcome all kinds of challenges in

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tough times to get to where we are. It is thanks to the female ski

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jumpers before me that I can be so happy and who I am today. Women's

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ski jump is new for 2014. This is the most important season in the

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lives of the athletes jumping behind me right now. Their first chance to

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win Olympic gold is in just two months. Whenever people write about

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you, they always mention your height. Does it bother you? I do

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wish I were taller. But you can't change the way you were born. What I

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am trying to do is make the most out of what potential I have. Japan has

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an impressive history in men's ski jump. They won team gold in 1998.

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Now fans at home expect the same from her. TRANSLATION: She was the

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overall champion at last season's World Cup. She is top of

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everybody's list when it comes to gold medal candidates. Lots of fans,

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well, the public have high hopes for her. If I were to win a gold medal,

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it wouldn't just be my gold medal, it would be a gold medal for all the

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people who have supported me up to now, all the people who have cheered

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me on, and everybody around me. Olympic bronze medallist Lutalo

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Muhammad and European Champion Aaron Cook both eased into the last 16 of

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the World Taekwondo Grand Prix in Manchester this morning. Britain

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already has a gold after Mahama Cho claimed a sudden-death overtime win

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over Brazil's Felix. He says it's great preparation ahead of the Rio

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Olympics. It is a great start. We have got to

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keep up the performance. 2016 is my dream. It is everything that I want.

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I will be working for it. British tennis player Ross Hutchins

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is preparing for the start of the tennis season at the Brisbane Open

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later this month. Hutchins and Colin Flaming have reached two Grand Slam

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quarter finals and won three titles together. They're aiming for more

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success in 2014. But as David Ornstein has been finding out, being

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on court is a world away from where Hutchins was this time last year.

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I don't know how many of you know the story... My best friend ever

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there, Ross Hutchins, was diagnosed with cancer. He has dealt with it

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incredibly well. It was a summer he will never forget. He conquered

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cancer and Andy Murray won Wimbledon. But Hutchins has a

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remarkable view on which meant most to him. The fact he has been wanting

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it for so long and it has been a 26 year dream, now it had come through

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commit was the most incredible moment of the year. The cancer, the

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treatment, you forget about it. The triumph came in the same month that

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Hutchins was given the all clear. A year previously, it was very

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different. Hutchins was playing through severe back pain and soon

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knew it wasn't a normal injury. It was that Christmas when the bad news

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arrived. As soon as I spoke to the doctor, I knew it was cancer. I held

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my brother. There was a moment when I told my mum. That was it.

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Literally five seconds of tears and emotion and it was, this is reality,

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get on with this. This is life. You are going to have to do something

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here to get in the right frame of mind to beat this thing. He expected

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a two-month course of chemotherapy but the cancer was more advanced

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than first feared. The treatment would be longer and more intense. It

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is almost like car in your body. -- tar. You realise this is the thing

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that is going to put you on the mend. That place is here, back on

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the court and preparing for the new season with his partner, Colin

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Fleming. They are aiming to become the world's number one pairing. It

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was here at the National tennis Centre in Roehampton that the

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comeback began and has rapidly gathered pace. Having won the

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biggest fight of his life, Hutchins can now resume his battle from the

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baseline. And now we can go back to normal waves. We can get focused to

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try to be successful on the tennis court. All these things are so

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exciting because I knew -- know how different it can be. Now I am back.

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I couldn't be happier. Just before we go, a quick update on

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the early kick-off in the Premier League, Manchester City against

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Arsenal. It is still 0-0. 13 minutes gone in that game.

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There's commentary over on BBC Radio5 Live.

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And finally, it's the 60th anniversary of Sports Personality of

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the Year tomorrow night. The show is live from Leeds. We'll leave you

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with the ten sportsmen and women who are looking to succeed Sir Bradley

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Wiggins. Goodbye. Henry Cooper. Princess Ann. Nick

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Faldo. Paula Radcliffe. David Beckham. Ryan Giggs. Mark

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Cavendish. Bradley Wiggins. Here are the contenders for 2013.

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