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:00:08. > :00:11.Another busy afternoon in the BBC sports" the latest news coming up

:00:12. > :00:14.and some interesting features for you this week. Welcome to Saturday

:00:15. > :00:30.Sportsday. Here is a taste of what we've got

:00:31. > :00:36.for you today. The sibling rivalry which conquered the triathlon world.

:00:37. > :00:41.The Brownlees started in 2013. They have some big target to aim for this

:00:42. > :00:45.year. Bryony Page is now one of the best in the world but she tells us

:00:46. > :00:51.just how close she came to giving up trampolining. And this man, he never

:00:52. > :00:55.gave up in his quest to be the best in what he does. It's akin to Italy

:00:56. > :00:59.in one of the toughest professional leagues in wheelchair basketball.

:01:00. > :01:08.First, let's look at the stories making the headlines today. David

:01:09. > :01:12.Moyes says even his predecessor Sir Alex Ferguson would have struggled

:01:13. > :01:15.this season with a squad he describes as ageing. A group of fans

:01:16. > :01:18.are planning to train a banner above Old Trafford during the lunchtime

:01:19. > :01:23.match against Aston Villa which reads wrong one, Molly is out.

:01:24. > :01:27.Torrential rain in Kuala Lumpur is affecting this morning 's practice

:01:28. > :01:31.and qualifying session ahead of the grand pre-. In just under one hour,

:01:32. > :01:37.Stuart broad will lead at England's cricketers for the crucial game

:01:38. > :01:40.against South Africa at the 220 World Cup in Bangladesh. England's

:01:41. > :01:51.men are hopeful of a place the semifinals. So to other women. They

:01:52. > :01:52.have one two and lost one so far. The captain continues to push the

:01:53. > :02:03.boundaries. Sarah Taylor rarely slows down. In

:02:04. > :02:05.the past few years she's become a World Cup winner, contributed a

:02:06. > :02:11.back-to-back Ashes victories and emerged as one of the best female

:02:12. > :02:14.cricketers. She is not yet 25 but in the build-up to the world to 20

:02:15. > :02:20.currently underway in Bangladesh, much was expected of her. Does she

:02:21. > :02:26.feel pressure? Yes, I do but it brings out the best in me, I think.

:02:27. > :02:29.I love the T20 format and I'm looking forward to the World Cup.

:02:30. > :02:36.She's always pushed boundaries as well. When she paid for the Brighton

:02:37. > :02:39.College first 11 alongside boys, the president called absolutely

:02:40. > :02:43.outrageous. Now she competes with men in senior club cricket. It's

:02:44. > :02:48.testing absolutely brilliant. It's one of the best things I ever did.

:02:49. > :02:52.Some of the pace the bowlers, they do testing and batting, as well, it

:02:53. > :02:55.keeps you on your toes, but they treat me like any other cricketer. A

:02:56. > :03:00.year ago, there was talk about making the step into men's second 11

:03:01. > :03:02.cricket with her county, Sussex. Nothing materialised but it's

:03:03. > :03:07.something she would like to try. It's nice to be asked. I would've

:03:08. > :03:11.loved to have done it. It would be a curve. I think it would better

:03:12. > :03:17.myself as a woman's cricketer but, yeah, if it came around again, I

:03:18. > :03:20.would do it. Wicketkeeping is about finesse rather than force so could a

:03:21. > :03:28.woman make it as a wicketkeeper in men's cricket? That's better, good.

:03:29. > :03:36.The key about the men's game, top flight, the keeper is an

:03:37. > :03:39.all-rounder. The keeping, we expect them to average in excess of 30 and

:03:40. > :03:46.the key players in one-day cricket, as well. There's no reason why Sarah

:03:47. > :03:51.couldn't keep providing she does it well enough. In terms of a limit to

:03:52. > :03:55.wear women's cricket can go and the performances we put in, I think you

:03:56. > :03:59.never know. We have got to take small steps initially but, you never

:04:00. > :04:04.know what's going to happen in the future. Women's cricket is now a

:04:05. > :04:06.profession thanks to new contracts awarded by the ECB for though these

:04:07. > :04:10.players will be better prepared than any others to play men's cricket,

:04:11. > :04:13.none will see it as a goal in itself. The pace of change in the

:04:14. > :04:20.women's game is relentless and currently, England and Sarah Taylor

:04:21. > :04:25.are setting it. England's women will have their eyes on next Sunday's T20

:04:26. > :04:29.final. That's the same day that the World Triathlon series starts in New

:04:30. > :04:32.Zealand for the Elite Men. The Brownlee Brothers most certainly fit

:04:33. > :04:35.into that category. But Olympic champion Alastair is sitting out the

:04:36. > :04:39.first race of the season and Jonny heads to Auckland trying to forget

:04:40. > :04:54.what happened in his last major race. Mark Shardlow reports.

:04:55. > :05:04.I bought a beam world champion, won twice. Europeans, one that twice.

:05:05. > :05:07.It's gone well. The Brownlees are winners so 2013 was frustrating for

:05:08. > :05:13.them. Johnny blew his world title chance. I will get a lot of stick

:05:14. > :05:19.for that, throwing away the world title today. And Alistair's main

:05:20. > :05:21.battle was injury. So when the season finished, they took their

:05:22. > :05:28.longest ever break from training, six weeks, and went and climbed

:05:29. > :05:32.Mount Kilimanjaro. I'm not the kind of person to sit at home do

:05:33. > :05:38.absolutely nothing, so claiming Kilimanjaro was perfect. When you

:05:39. > :05:42.got to the Company evening, there was nothing to do see had to sit

:05:43. > :05:46.around and play cards. The Brownlees have spent more time overseas this

:05:47. > :05:51.winter mixing warm weather training with the usual routine. They also

:05:52. > :05:55.got a taste of life as full-time cyclists, training with a top

:05:56. > :06:01.national team. I suppose the best way to describe a day like that, is

:06:02. > :06:07.like going downstairs, breakfast is laid out for you, but your biking

:06:08. > :06:12.helmet on, and ride around for five or six hours, comeback. The food is

:06:13. > :06:14.laid out, and Matthau is, and fantastic environment, very

:06:15. > :06:19.conductive than sport. Athletes have nothing to worry about except

:06:20. > :06:26.training. I will try to take as much I can into triathlon. This year 's

:06:27. > :06:30.triathlon World Series is more gruelling than ever. They need to

:06:31. > :06:33.compete in at least six events and right in the middle of their five

:06:34. > :06:37.months of globetrotting is the Commonwealth Games. To win another

:06:38. > :06:42.major medal would be really really good. It's a con wealth games, they

:06:43. > :06:46.only happen every four years. It's the one thing I've never won. Yeah,

:06:47. > :06:52.that's very important for me to win that. Whatever the event, these

:06:53. > :06:55.remarkable brothers are likely to win medals, as long as they are

:06:56. > :07:00.injury free. And that'll be the key to a successful summer. All athletes

:07:01. > :07:07.worry about injuries, Bryony Page has had a few of those. For many

:07:08. > :07:11.years she thought her path to to the top had been blocked by something

:07:12. > :07:16.else. A mental block when she suffered from what is known in

:07:17. > :07:19.trampolining as lost move syndrome. Losing her way through routines, she

:07:20. > :07:23.thought she would never fulfil her potential, but she was part of the

:07:24. > :07:27.British team that won world gold last year. She competes at the

:07:28. > :07:30.European Championships next month in Portugal. Kate Grey went to watch

:07:31. > :07:42.her prepare at her Sheffield training base.

:07:43. > :07:48.There's like a point at the top of the jump where you are just

:07:49. > :07:54.weightless and you feel like you can fly. It sounds so cheesy. Bryony

:07:55. > :07:57.Page is one of Britain's brightest trampolining stars but her rise to

:07:58. > :08:02.the top has been far from straightforward. Back in 2007, she

:08:03. > :08:06.suffered a crisis of confidence that threatened her career. I made a

:08:07. > :08:10.mistake on one move and that was a move I was scared and eventually it

:08:11. > :08:15.went to another move and then another one, and as soon it starts

:08:16. > :08:19.spreading, you feel like you have no control over what you're doing for

:08:20. > :08:23.the it's your mind and doing it. If you trying to save yourself from

:08:24. > :08:26.getting hurt feeling like a failure. She battled with as mental block for

:08:27. > :08:32.five years and wondered whether she would ever make it back. I just had

:08:33. > :08:35.to teach myself again how to do everything, make sure I was

:08:36. > :08:39.confident to see everything, and I knew what everything felt like.

:08:40. > :08:43.There were times I didn't think I could do it but was no times I

:08:44. > :08:47.thought I would give up. I couldn't leave the sport numbing that I

:08:48. > :08:52.didn't reach my potential. -- knowing I couldn't reach my

:08:53. > :08:55.potential. She managed to conquer her Demons butter problems didn't

:08:56. > :08:58.end there. She missed London 2012 through injury but then went on to

:08:59. > :09:06.win the World Cup the two years running and bounced back. I would

:09:07. > :09:10.like to retain my title. I would really like to get on the European

:09:11. > :09:14.team and the World Championships team. I've become so much stronger

:09:15. > :09:17.as a person and an athlete. Although it was the most difficult thing I've

:09:18. > :09:22.had to go through, trampolining, it's something I love doing. I

:09:23. > :09:27.wouldn't take it away because I've become so much more robust. And more

:09:28. > :09:32.confident in my abilities. Good luck to her. What ups and downs are we

:09:33. > :09:35.going to have in Formula One this season? One race down, 18 to go. It

:09:36. > :09:40.was typically tropical for the teams in Malaysia this morning. Hot and

:09:41. > :09:44.wet conditions to test the drivers. There are highlights of qualifying

:09:45. > :09:52.for tomorrow's Grand Prix in the next 20 minutes on BBC One. Suzie

:09:53. > :09:56.Perry is in Kuala Lumpur. Catch up with Formula one qualifying later on

:09:57. > :10:07.today. Our complete build-up with features starring a young hotshot

:10:08. > :10:15.from McLaren. Magnusson. Join David and me after the news on BBC One. We

:10:16. > :10:18.certainly will. The British men's wheelchair basketball team are the

:10:19. > :10:22.reigning European Champions. About half the squad are spread around

:10:23. > :10:25.Europe playing for club sides in Spain, Germany and Italy. That's

:10:26. > :10:31.where Ian Sagar, one of their stars, is playing his basketball,

:10:32. > :10:38.this is wheelchair basketball Italian style. Ian Sagar is about

:10:39. > :10:44.abroad cheered on by a sell-out crowd in the semifinals of the Cobra

:10:45. > :10:48.Italia. It's a great experience. The reason I've come out and played in

:10:49. > :10:52.Italy, the league is so strong, it's not like I'm a disabled person

:10:53. > :10:57.playing sport but an athlete playing sport. Who happens to be disabled.

:10:58. > :11:00.It's such a rough to leak which suits me down to the ground. You

:11:01. > :11:03.have got to mix it with the best players in the world just to see

:11:04. > :11:08.where you are failing and to improve your game. You can't get better

:11:09. > :11:15.without being challenged. You got a sporting family here. Definitely. I

:11:16. > :11:18.think it's a good thing. Would you thought at 31 you would be in Italy

:11:19. > :11:23.with your family playing professional basketball? It's life,

:11:24. > :11:27.I can see me doing this for the long run, really. Now I'm here in this

:11:28. > :11:32.situation, I wouldn't give it up for the world. It's a lively couldn't

:11:33. > :11:35.have imagined after breaking his back 15 years ago. One I had a

:11:36. > :11:41.motorbike accident, I was in hospital for four months. The first

:11:42. > :11:44.time you get above the three month what they really want your stomach

:11:45. > :11:49.so they push you run the hospital on the trolley, and I looked over

:11:50. > :11:52.sports all through the windows and there were some guys playing

:11:53. > :12:00.wheelchair basketball and I thought, I want to have a go of that. The

:12:01. > :12:06.club's biggest fan and president witnessed a trouble winning season

:12:07. > :12:08.last year. But success on the world stage is still Ian Sagar's

:12:09. > :12:15.motivation of the great Britain's fourth finish at the Paralympics. To

:12:16. > :12:18.just miss out narrowly, it's heartbreaking. Although it was the

:12:19. > :12:24.best experience of my life. It is one of the worst. To miss out on a

:12:25. > :12:29.medal. Can you win the Italian league? Hopefully so. We are

:12:30. > :12:38.defending champions. As defending champions, we want to keep the

:12:39. > :12:43.title, keep the cup. Cup final day and Ian is an exemplary form but

:12:44. > :12:46.against a more clinical apparent, there were not able to match their

:12:47. > :12:53.opponents and they conceded the title. They were just better. They

:12:54. > :12:57.are going to get you at the end of the day. Unfortunately, they have

:12:58. > :13:02.just fallen short are today. The Italian job is still very much a

:13:03. > :13:08.work in progress. Now they're going the world Championship glory. And,

:13:09. > :13:12.for the man living history and, a medal in Korea would be the icing on

:13:13. > :13:16.the cake. That's just about it for Saturday Sportsday. Let's just bring

:13:17. > :13:25.you up to date with the two football matches going on this lunchtime. At

:13:26. > :13:28.Old Trafford, the banner was spotted over Old Trafford. A few disgruntled

:13:29. > :13:33.Manchester United fans even more disgruntled now because Aston Villa

:13:34. > :13:44.have taken the lead through Westwood. 1-0. What pressure on

:13:45. > :13:50.David Moyes there. In the Championship, Leicester are leading

:13:51. > :13:52.Burnley 1-0. First against second. That is it from all of us. Goodbye.