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Hello there and welcome to the BBC Sport Centre. Coming up, world title

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boxing and two very different paths to Rio. But first, the headlines.

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Gianni Infantino has his first day at work as Fifa president, voted in

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yesterday. He has vowed to implement reform at the organisation. Wales

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are top of the Six Nations table after beating France 19-10 in

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Cardiff and England can return to the top if they avoid defeat to

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Ireland later. Scotland are initially looking for their first

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win of the championship. Rory McIlroy has missed the cut in

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Florida for the second year running. He is a former champion at the PGA

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Tour event. He said that mental errors and sloppy mistakes that

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cost. He's going to be supporting Carl Frampton tonight as he takes on

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Scott Quigg. Both men are putting their world titles on the line. The

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build-up has been really properly with the unbeaten champions fighting

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on who has got of the best dressing room. Scott Quigg is going to have

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mass of local support. We have spent time with him ahead of the biggest

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fight of his career. You decide when the final bell goes. People train

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hard. Other people push themselves to the limit but my limit is a lot

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further than anybody's else. Scott Quigg is the World Champion boxer

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you probably have not heard of. He lives away from the limelight. His

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weekends are spent training in Saddleworth, where everything is

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hard and intense. These early morning runs have long been part of

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his life. And it all stems from a decision he and his parents made ten

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years ago. School was not for the sports obsessed teenager and he took

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extraordinary lengths to dedicate his life to boxing. We went in one

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day and sat there and he asked them to expel him. I thought, well, if

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that is what he wants, you will not learn at school. I was not getting

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anything out of it and neither was the school. I would not be here now

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if it was not for that decision. His dad made him work in a factory in

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order to experience what life would be like if he did not succeed. Not

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that Scots needed that lesson. Training took over as life and soon,

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the whole family's. We went to Florida once for a family holiday.

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All the time we were there, all he was concerned about was going home.

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He has not lived a life, the last ten years, but it is what he wanted

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to do. He has been fully focused and nothing can get in the way. All the

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hard work has paid off and Scott is now a World Champion but so is his

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opponent, Carl Frampton, who brings his world title to Manchester this

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evening for an all British unification fight that has grabbed

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the attention of the world's media. I feel like a kid at Christmas. I am

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super excited. I cannot wait to get going. There has been a lot of back

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and forth for a long time and the fight is just around the corner. To

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be involved in a fight where we are both unbeaten, both world champions,

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both lucky to have each other, and be as good as we are, that is what

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makes this fight so big. Belfast and Manchester will be represented in

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their thousands. The fight sold out in a matter of minutes and the

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bookmakers cannot split them. The stakes are high for both fighters

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and there is no room for self-doubt. People can say that they are

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dedicated and focused, and they might be. But they do not come close

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to the way I live. But that will not win me the fight. What will win me

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the fight will be that I am the better fighter and I will prove that

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on the night. And that site is live on Radio Five Live from ten o'clock

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tonight. The world title, the pinnacle of their careers. This

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summer it is all about Olympic and Paralympic gold for thousands of

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athletes. The real games are less than six months away. John drain has

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secured a place in the barrel of the judo squad. He is visually impaired

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and suffers from an attention deficit disorder which throws up

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further challenges. We went to meet him. Particularly with this sort of

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thing, ADHD is not a great partner. I was not willing to accept the

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problems with my eyesight. This is how John sees the world and the judo

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M80. Five years ago, during a routine eye check, he was told he

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was losing his sight. -- judo M80. His life then changed for ever. For

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me, I thought this could not be real. I was very reluctant, I

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thought it could not be right. It seemed unfair. Despite his

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reservations, he became a world bronze medallist in 2014. However,

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nine months ago, he suffered a serious knee injury that threatened

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his chances of qualifying for real. Personally, I don't think I dealt

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with it well. It was more about the rehabilitation of my mind than my

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knee. I was in a sad place. Just before the injury, I was suffering

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from depression and with the injury and everything, it went as far as

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depression can go. From the darkest of days, he turned it around. In

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real, he will be battling for gold but now, he is focused on the

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battles closer to home. You always look back at something through the

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last emotional experience. I only wish to think back to the last five

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months when I have had the support. That is why I am hesitant about

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looking too far ahead. So he is Rio bound -

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hurdler Andrew Pozzi will hope He was flying in the build up

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to the 2012 Games but an injury The 23 year old is racing

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at the British Indoor Championships He's Olympic dreaming once again,

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but as he told Joe Lynskey, Andrew Pozzi has not had the best

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preparations. His legacy wrapped. Pozzi out of the blocks but not

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running well. And that is it. It must be a huge disappointment? Yes,

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to lead like that is heartbreaking. There was no happy home Olympics for

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Andrew Pozzi. It is three and a half years since the heartbreak at the

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first hurdle but the memories do not get any easier. It was incredibly

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difficult because it was in London on my friends and family were in

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London to see me. For me, I needed a couple of days to be by myself. It

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was not enjoyable at all. I have only watched it once and it was a

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very formative experience. 2012 proved just the start of Pozzi's

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injury problems. After the handspring ended his Olympic dream,

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the next few years were hampered by foot injuries, meaning no chance of

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making the Commonwealth Games or the World Championships in Beijing.

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There have been more troughs than peaks and my motivation has fallen

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drastically. It has been very difficult to keep going, especially

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when I feel like I have all this potential that I am unable to get

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out. This weekend, Pozzi returns to competition looking to reclaim his

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spot as Britain's number one. And with real on the horizon, the next

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target is a place on the podium. -- and with Rio on the horizon. It is

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difficult to recover from injury because it does not only Sky you

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physically, but mentally. It is a tough challenge but he has to be

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confident that he can do it. It has been a joy to get training again. I

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want to be in a state where I can do myself justice and the level we can

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achieve, the only standard is to be challenging for a medal in the

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final. And fingers crossed he stays injury free. A quick update on the

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Premier League match at Upton Park. 0-0. From all of us on Saturday

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Sportsday, goodbye. 'I think he was being

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nudged there by Moreno.

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