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Christmas is a busy time for sport, so, while you may be settled on the | :00:00. | :00:12. | |
server, we have got a festive feast for you today, looking ahead to the | :00:13. | :00:15. | |
highlights over the holidays. This is Saturday Sportsday. | :00:16. | :00:28. | |
Cardiff have to put their managerial drama behind them for the next | :00:29. | :00:34. | |
couple of hours. They have just kicked off their Premier League | :00:35. | :00:36. | |
match against Liverpool, we will update you throughout the show. | :00:37. | :00:41. | |
Meanwhile, the Ashes are already Australia's but as we sleep of the | :00:42. | :00:44. | |
Christmas dinner England's cricketers will hope that luck has | :00:45. | :00:49. | |
changed when the fourth test starts in Melbourne. No funding for | :00:50. | :00:52. | |
volleyball animal in the UK so if you want to play at a top level you | :00:53. | :00:57. | |
have to head to Europe. We meet a player who has moved to Liverpool | :00:58. | :01:01. | |
for her sport. And South America prepares to host the Paralympic | :01:02. | :01:05. | |
games for the first time, find out how Rio celebrated with 1000 days to | :01:06. | :01:11. | |
go. But before we go to Olympia for the season finale to the equestrian | :01:12. | :01:14. | |
yet, let's have a look at some headlines. | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
Scotland's Michael Jamieson won the 200 metre breaststroke to give | :01:19. | :01:21. | |
Europe the lead in the Duel In The Pool. America had been favourite to | :01:22. | :01:25. | |
win, but it is 68-54 to Europe going into today's races. | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
Edinburgh held on to beat Pro12 champions Leinster at Murrayfield. | :01:29. | :01:38. | |
11-60 Final Score. And Phil "The Power" Taylor is out of the World | :01:39. | :01:41. | |
Championship, beaten by Michael Smith. | :01:42. | :01:49. | |
The London International Horse Show at Olympia reaches its climax this | :01:50. | :01:53. | |
weekend. We have already seen Charlotte Dujardin set a new | :01:54. | :01:56. | |
dressage world record, a hard-fought, high-flying Puissance | :01:57. | :01:58. | |
class, and today the world's best show-jumpers fight it out. Lizzie | :01:59. | :02:01. | |
Greenwood Hughes is there for us. A pile of horse poo, lots of tinsel | :02:02. | :02:07. | |
in the middle of London, it can only mean one thing, the London | :02:08. | :02:09. | |
International Horse Show, where, for one week every year, the world 's | :02:10. | :02:13. | |
best show-jumping and dressage rider flock to the capital for the autumn | :02:14. | :02:18. | |
at equestrian Christmas party. You have got the Shetlands, the dogs | :02:19. | :02:22. | |
jumping, but for me it is about the top sport and then mayor has been | :02:23. | :02:26. | |
writing here for many years. You are part of the Renaissance of British | :02:27. | :02:31. | |
show-jumping, one of the European champions. British show-jumping | :02:32. | :02:35. | |
could not be healthier at the moment? No, it is a great sport and | :02:36. | :02:41. | |
hopefully we will bring it back to where it was 20 or 30 years ago. It | :02:42. | :02:47. | |
is back on TV a lot more now, where it belongs. Until recently I would | :02:48. | :02:51. | |
be introducing new as the world number one but a certain Scotsman | :02:52. | :02:57. | |
has just stolen your crown? I managed to top it three or four | :02:58. | :03:01. | |
months ago but Scott overtook me a few weeks ago. We tour every week | :03:02. | :03:06. | |
together and he kept fighting away and got me just before this show but | :03:07. | :03:11. | |
it is a great rivalry and good for the sport. And that rivalry will | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
continue with the World Cup qualifier, did a class here at | :03:15. | :03:19. | |
Olympia. What are your chances? Hopefully good, it is a new bunch of | :03:20. | :03:26. | |
horses, my horse has been on rest this week. Your Olympic course? Yes, | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
he won here two years ago so hopefully we can produce a good | :03:35. | :03:37. | |
performance. If you want to watch them taking on the world 's best | :03:38. | :03:42. | |
show-jumpers here, it is live on BBC One. Give it a chance, it is on from | :03:43. | :03:49. | |
1:45pm with Claire Balding. Not much cause for celebration | :03:50. | :03:54. | |
amongst England's cricketers. The future of coach Andy flower hangs in | :03:55. | :03:57. | |
the balance. England have to regroup if they want to avoid a white wash | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
down under. Dan Bowman is in Melbourne head of the fourth test, | :04:02. | :04:06. | |
which starts on business night. The build-up has begun to one of the | :04:07. | :04:10. | |
most iconic, famous fixtures, not just in cricket but in the whole of | :04:11. | :04:16. | |
sport. The Boxing Day test match, here in Melbourne. Before this Ashes | :04:17. | :04:21. | |
series many predicted it would be a pivotal match between two evenly | :04:22. | :04:25. | |
balanced teams. How wrong they were. The Ashes have already been won by | :04:26. | :04:29. | |
Australia and all England have two play for now is pride. They will be | :04:30. | :04:35. | |
desperate to avoid a 5-0 whitewash. Tim Bresnan, one of the bowlers who | :04:36. | :04:39. | |
has suffered in Perth, is saying there is plenty at stake. I don't | :04:40. | :04:43. | |
think it is a dead test match. We are looking to make it three - D. | :04:44. | :04:48. | |
That is still on the cards for us. The Ashes have gone but we are | :04:49. | :04:56. | |
playing for pride. Most of the guys are up for the Test match, Boxing | :04:57. | :04:59. | |
Day in Melbourne, you do not get bigger than that. There is no doubt | :05:00. | :05:04. | |
England face a dilemma. Do they experiment with new younger players | :05:05. | :05:09. | |
with an eye on 2015, the next Ashes series in England, or take a more | :05:10. | :05:13. | |
pragmatic approach and remain loyal to players who have served them well | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
in recent years? There is no doubt there is pressure on the basis of | :05:18. | :05:20. | |
men like Graeme Swann, even Kevin Pietersen, Anderson perhaps as well. | :05:21. | :05:26. | |
Whatever they do, there is no doubt they desperately need a boost here. | :05:27. | :05:31. | |
After the Olympics, funding for volleyball in the UK was stopped and | :05:32. | :05:36. | |
the Team GB's squads were disbanded. Players have had to look elsewhere | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
for their sport. Hero Michael has moved to Italy and is a rare British | :05:42. | :05:50. | |
player on the European circuit. Welcome to the home of British | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
volleyball. It does not look British, because it isn't. This is | :05:54. | :06:01. | |
Italy, the new home of Kira Michael, one of the few British | :06:02. | :06:05. | |
professional players left a year and a half after these historic scenes | :06:06. | :06:09. | |
at London 2012. Within months of winning an Olympic game for the | :06:10. | :06:12. | |
first time, the British team was shut down. Our team was disbanded. | :06:13. | :06:19. | |
There is no longer a GB women's volleyball team, just a group of | :06:20. | :06:27. | |
friends, really now. Most of the players have retired earlier than | :06:28. | :06:30. | |
they would have liked to. This goes everywhere with me. At six foot | :06:31. | :06:37. | |
five, Michael has signed up as a middle blocker for the team in this | :06:38. | :06:40. | |
town near Milan. They play in the champions league, one of the top | :06:41. | :06:44. | |
competitions in the world. Michael, who grew up in Somerset before | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
learning volleyball in Miami and Australia, is the first British | :06:50. | :06:53. | |
player ever to reach this level. There is a really passionate fan | :06:54. | :07:01. | |
base, a really similar atmosphere to 2012 where the home crowd was | :07:02. | :07:05. | |
excited to be there. Now there is no Team GB to aim for, failure is like | :07:06. | :07:10. | |
Michael almost all that is left to inspire British children to try | :07:11. | :07:14. | |
possible. There are not many outlets for playing volleyball in England. | :07:15. | :07:18. | |
The exposure of other sport is greater that kids don't necessarily | :07:19. | :07:24. | |
know this is an opportunity, something to strive for. I remember | :07:25. | :07:29. | |
reading a quote before London 2012, I wrote it down in my notebook and | :07:30. | :07:34. | |
try to read it every day of the Olympics: Every member of team GB | :07:35. | :07:37. | |
has the responsibility to inspire a nation. I really would like to think | :07:38. | :07:42. | |
that I can inspire kids by being here. | :07:43. | :07:45. | |
When it comes to transatlantic competitions, Europe has been doing | :07:46. | :07:48. | |
pretty well of late. Europe's golfers beat America in the men's | :07:49. | :07:52. | |
Ryder Cup, and the women's Solheim Cup. Now it is the swimmers' turn to | :07:53. | :07:56. | |
take on the USA. And, after day one, Europe are leading the Duel In The | :07:57. | :08:00. | |
Pool. Fran Halsall swan the final leg in the relay victory last night, | :08:01. | :08:03. | |
while Michael Jamieson won the 200 metre breaststroke in front of his | :08:04. | :08:06. | |
home crowd in Glasgow. It was important for me to get the | :08:07. | :08:12. | |
win, with the home crowd, so I am delighted. Overall, I am in good | :08:13. | :08:16. | |
form in the past couple of weeks, I have been posting test times which | :08:17. | :08:20. | |
is good, I am where I want to be head of the games. It was a surprise | :08:21. | :08:25. | |
to win the relay because the Americans are so strong and the | :08:26. | :08:28. | |
depth in their team is incredible, so to take them on at night and come | :08:29. | :08:32. | |
out with a win is quite a big deal and a bit of a shock. The | :08:33. | :08:40. | |
competition continues today. 2014 promises to be a big year for | :08:41. | :08:44. | |
Brazil. The World Cup kicks off there in June. And already the hype | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
is building ahead of the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Rio | :08:49. | :08:50. | |
celebrated 1,000 days until the start of the Paralympics earlier | :08:51. | :08:53. | |
this month, and Stuart Pollitt was there. | :08:54. | :08:58. | |
Paralympic and is that you gave to the world fleet of speed, endurance, | :08:59. | :09:02. | |
dexterity and skill many did not think possible. Record crowds, | :09:03. | :09:08. | |
record coverage, record performances. How can the | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
Paralympics follow this? I have heard that so many times, we will | :09:16. | :09:19. | |
never repeat Beijing. We always achieve that. For me, I never look | :09:20. | :09:25. | |
at it like that. Paralympics begin here in Rio in 1000 days. This lake | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
will host the running and the canoe. Before then, Brazil has the | :09:31. | :09:34. | |
small matter of putting on a World Cup and Olympic Games. The challenge | :09:35. | :09:38. | |
for the Paralympics, though, is not to build the arenas on time, but to | :09:39. | :09:43. | |
persuade the Brazilian people to fill them. Are you confident you | :09:44. | :09:46. | |
will sell all of the tickets for the games? Yes, we are working a lot to | :09:47. | :09:52. | |
prepare to have all the tickets sold. Athletes like Alan Olivero | :09:53. | :09:58. | |
will help sell the tickets. The man who beat Oscar Pistorius in London | :09:59. | :10:05. | |
2012 is Brazil's gift Olympic star and he was the main attraction at | :10:06. | :10:10. | |
the country's annual Paralympic awards. I feel the responsibility of | :10:11. | :10:13. | |
being one of the faces of the game. I am prepared for that. It will be | :10:14. | :10:18. | |
really good idea time the games come. Raised flags and raised | :10:19. | :10:29. | |
expectations for change at this rehab centre on the outskirts of | :10:30. | :10:32. | |
Rio, where they are marking 1000 days until the start of the | :10:33. | :10:37. | |
Paralympics. They have to do a lot to be a more inclusive city, for | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
more accessibility. That is what we hoped for, to change culture. It is | :10:42. | :10:46. | |
a change that Philip is confident will happen. People said to me | :10:47. | :10:51. | |
before London, maybe the UK does not need the games, they have made this | :10:52. | :10:54. | |
transition. I said, you are kidding. Whether it is a greater possibility | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
here, I think society will be influenced. If Rio can embrace | :11:00. | :11:10. | |
that, the achievement of London 2012 can be surpassed. | :11:11. | :11:13. | |
That update you on the early kick-offs. Celtic against hearts, | :11:14. | :11:19. | |
still 0-0. Liverpool against Cardiff, also 0-0. That is all for | :11:20. | :11:23. | |
now, have a very Merry Christmas. | :11:24. | :11:26. |