:00:11. > :00:24.Welcome. Over the next 15 minutes, we will have a mix of sports news,
:00:25. > :00:32.previews and features for you. This is Saturday Sportsday. Coming up on
:00:33. > :00:36.the programme, we will hear about a memorable year for Paralympic
:00:37. > :00:41.champion Sarah Storey. She was made a dame and she had a baby, but she
:00:42. > :00:45.is back on the track this weekend. We will find out about British
:00:46. > :00:51.skater Nick Buckland, after he had heart surgery with just three months
:00:52. > :00:54.to go till the games. And we will be in Belgium to discover the secrets
:00:55. > :01:01.behind the success of their national football team. Let's look at the
:01:02. > :01:06.headlines. England's cricketers have made hard work of their warm up of
:01:07. > :01:11.the second Ashes test match. The good news is that Graeme Swann is
:01:12. > :01:16.picking up wickets. He took four. We will have the latest from Ellis
:01:17. > :01:21.Springs in a moment. Things are going better for Rory McIlroy in
:01:22. > :01:26.Australia. He is in contention to win his first title of the year. He
:01:27. > :01:30.goes into the final round of the Australian open in Sydney for shots
:01:31. > :01:36.off the lead. And there has been a gold medal at this World Cup event
:01:37. > :01:39.in Canada for Great Britain. The British competitor was originally in
:01:40. > :01:47.second place, but she was upgraded after an appeal I the British team.
:01:48. > :01:51.It is a big boost for her. England's cricketers are preparing
:01:52. > :01:53.for the second test against Australia after being heavily
:01:54. > :01:59.defeated in the Ashes test match opener. They drew their warm up game
:02:00. > :02:07.after a difficult start to the tour. Joe Wilson is with the team.
:02:08. > :02:11.A rousing call to arms are just part are? In Ellis Springs, England's
:02:12. > :02:21.pace bowlers steamed in and look at it. -- and looked tepid. A brave
:02:22. > :02:32.approach for the second test would be to play to spin bowlers. The
:02:33. > :02:36.opposition look at -- the opposition looked a bit second-rate. The
:02:37. > :02:40.afternoon also sought the departure of the stadium announcer, after
:02:41. > :02:46.apparently introducing Monty Panesar in an Indian accent. I did not heed
:02:47. > :02:51.it that way and the England players were not aware. Monty Panesar took
:02:52. > :02:54.two more wickets. The makeshift home side enjoyed themselves and went
:02:55. > :03:01.past England's total before declaring. England have welcomed a
:03:02. > :03:05.promise not to use Jonathan Trott's illness as a subject for sledging.
:03:06. > :03:11.It does not mean it will be any easier. After their excursion and
:03:12. > :03:16.exertion heeding the Northern Territory, one England player who
:03:17. > :03:22.has really made a strong case to play in the second test matches Tim
:03:23. > :03:31.Bresnan. He did his preparation over in Brisbane. Joe Wilson, BBC News,
:03:32. > :03:33.Ellis Springs. -- Ellis Springs. And that second Test gets underway on
:03:34. > :03:37.Wednesday night. Now, onto today's Rugby League World
:03:38. > :03:40.Cup final. It's a repeat of the last one when New Zealand surprised
:03:41. > :03:44.Australia to win the trophy for the first time. The match is live on BBC
:03:45. > :03:46.One and our correspondent, Andy Swiss, is at Old Trafford ready for
:03:47. > :03:49.kick-off. At 2:30pm, this stadium will be a
:03:50. > :03:55.wall of noise. 74,000 fans, a record crowd for an international rugby
:03:56. > :03:59.league match. Australia are very much the favourites. They have
:04:00. > :04:01.scored 210 points in their last four matches but they will remember all
:04:02. > :04:09.too well that New Zealand beat them in the last World Cup final. Nothing
:04:10. > :04:13.will ever make up for that. The New Zealand buys one that and they will
:04:14. > :04:18.always be the champions. We just want to go out there and play the
:04:19. > :04:23.best we can. If that results in a win, that is great. If we play the
:04:24. > :04:32.best we can as a team and it is not good enough, so be it. They are very
:04:33. > :04:36.consistent. They are the best around. It will be a great challenge
:04:37. > :04:44.for us. Obviously what has happened before does not count for much
:04:45. > :04:47.coming into this one. New Zealand will start very much the underdogs.
:04:48. > :04:54.The only just squeezed past England in that nail-biting game at Wembley
:04:55. > :04:56.last weekend. It should be thrilling and you can watch it live on BBC
:04:57. > :04:59.One. Rugby union's series of autumn
:05:00. > :05:04.internationals comes to a close this weekend. But the final match is
:05:05. > :05:08.certainly one to look forward to as Wales take on Australia in Cardiff.
:05:09. > :05:13.You can see the game live on BBC Two from 4:30. Wales will be keen to end
:05:14. > :05:18.on a high after two wins out of three in the series. Last year they
:05:19. > :05:21.played the Wallabies four times, only to lose narrowly on each
:05:22. > :05:24.occasion, including at the Millennium Stadium 12 months ago,
:05:25. > :05:29.when a Kurtley Beale try in the last seconds gave Australia a dramatic
:05:30. > :05:33.win. It is a great challenge for us, and something for us to look forward
:05:34. > :05:41.to. They have got some real quality players on their team, but so have
:05:42. > :05:45.we. For all of us, it is a real game to look forward to in terms of
:05:46. > :05:47.world-class players on the field. Now, 11-time Paralympic champion
:05:48. > :05:56.Sarah Storey is returning to competitive action this weekend. She
:05:57. > :06:00.won four cycling golds at London 2012, and will be back on the track
:06:01. > :06:02.in Newport later, competing at the Para-cycling Cup. Remarkably it's
:06:03. > :06:06.the first international para-cycling event to be held since last summer's
:06:07. > :06:09.games. But that means she hasn't missed any tournaments after what's
:06:10. > :06:12.been a rather eventful year. Tim Hague has been to meet Sarah Storey.
:06:13. > :06:15.She is one of the most successful Paralympic and is one of the most
:06:16. > :06:21.successful Paralympics of all time, I woman two is always eyeing her
:06:22. > :06:23.next challenge. Yet her life has changed dramatically since her for
:06:24. > :06:28.has changed dramatically since four gold medals in London. She is now
:06:29. > :06:33.onto Louisa and has been adjusting to perhaps her biggest challenge
:06:34. > :06:38.yet. I have definitely had to become more efficient. You have to plan
:06:39. > :06:46.your day around feeding. There is no pattern to it, so you have to be
:06:47. > :06:50.ready to go. From that perspective, if I want to bring in the income
:06:51. > :06:56.from being an athlete, I need to be as competitive as before, so I do
:06:57. > :07:02.not think it will change me. And unsurprisingly bullish view from
:07:03. > :07:05.women who has won 22 Paralympic medals and who is so committed to
:07:06. > :07:09.cycling she was training until the moment she went into labour. The
:07:10. > :07:22.accolades continued to come story's way, because she received a dame
:07:23. > :07:27.head. -- Storey's. This is something I never imagined would happen. When
:07:28. > :07:42.I received the letter, I can to keep rereading it. -- I had to keep
:07:43. > :07:49.rereading it. I will have to say to Louisa when she sees the photograph,
:07:50. > :07:52.that bomb, that was you. All these people have come out to see Sarah
:07:53. > :07:57.Storey and the unveiling of her very own statue. Another honour for this
:07:58. > :08:04.remarkable woman who has done it all. Surely there is nothing more to
:08:05. > :08:09.achieve? My greatest achievement is probably yet to come. That is the
:08:10. > :08:13.thing with sport. I am very patriotic. I love pulling on a GB
:08:14. > :08:22.tracksuit and racing for Great Britain. I cannot turn my back on
:08:23. > :08:28.it. Her rivals have been warned as Dame Sarah Storey is tough, and
:08:29. > :08:33.competitive. But she has a soft and affectionate side that is saved for
:08:34. > :08:43.others. Even Storey's year can't compete
:08:44. > :08:46.with Nick Buckland's. Heart surgery three months before you're set to
:08:47. > :08:49.compete at the Winter Olympics is hardly the best preparation. But
:08:50. > :08:52.that's just what happened to the British skater. Buckland has put up
:08:53. > :08:55.with a racing heartbeat known as tachycardia since the Vancouver 2010
:08:56. > :08:58.Olympics, but this year doctors decided it was getting dangerous and
:08:59. > :09:05.it was time to operate. Ollie Williams reports. It is not very
:09:06. > :09:13.nice. It is really disgusting. This is the device that old Nick Buckland
:09:14. > :09:24.they needed heart surgery. The first time I really noticed it was in
:09:25. > :09:29.Vancouver. An average adult heart beat 60-80 times a minute, but Nick
:09:30. > :09:34.Buckland's condition means that his heart can hit more than 240 beats a
:09:35. > :09:39.minute. You definitely cannot compete like that, and it keep the
:09:40. > :09:45.life-threatening. The device in his chest monitors the problem. Doctors
:09:46. > :09:48.had to operate. When someone mentions heart surgery, initially
:09:49. > :09:54.you think, that is the Olympics gone. Surgeons discovered the
:09:55. > :10:00.problem was out of place nerve that they could quickly fix. Almost
:10:01. > :10:06.overnight, Nick Buckland was back. He was fine. It was incredible. With
:10:07. > :10:12.all these ups and downs, it was nice to have a positive after something
:10:13. > :10:16.so serious. Just weeks later, he was skating with his partner in
:10:17. > :10:25.Sheffield. A clean performance should book their places in Sochi.
:10:26. > :10:28.And for more stories like Nick Buckland's, watch Inspire this
:10:29. > :10:31.afternoon, here on BBC One. Gabby Logan can tell us more.
:10:32. > :10:34.This month we feature three different women, three different
:10:35. > :10:40.sports and three very different journeys. I am in Manchester with
:10:41. > :10:50.Becky James. Matthew Pinsent will join heavily -- Heather Stanning as
:10:51. > :10:53.she returns to rowing. Inspire, today, at 1:15pm.
:10:54. > :10:56.After being booed off in their recent friendlies at Wembley, you
:10:57. > :10:59.could argue that the relationship between the England players and
:11:00. > :11:02.their fans is frosty to say the least. Well, perhaps the Football
:11:03. > :11:06.Association could learn a thing or two from Belgium. Not that long ago
:11:07. > :11:08.they were putting in poor performances and playing to
:11:09. > :11:12.virtually empty houses but they came up with a novel idea, employing a PR
:11:13. > :11:15.agency to help bring fans and players together. It's worked, and
:11:16. > :11:19.Belgium go into next week's World Cup draw with a new spring in their
:11:20. > :11:25.step. Frances Tomkinson went to find out all about the blossoming
:11:26. > :11:28.relationship. The Belgian squad is filled with
:11:29. > :11:34.Premier League stars and unlike England, the head to the World Cup
:11:35. > :11:38.next year full of confidence. But is there a hidden secret behind the
:11:39. > :11:42.qualification success? The main idea was that for every match we had a
:11:43. > :11:46.challenge. The players challenged the fans to do something, like
:11:47. > :11:51.colour the country read because we are the red Devils. When the fans
:11:52. > :11:57.succeeded, the players did something in return. It was nice, because that
:11:58. > :12:09.the end, we had the balloons full of paint. We want to show that we are
:12:10. > :12:16.good friends. We want them to be part of the campaign. They were the
:12:17. > :12:20.main carriers of the campaign. It was very good to involve the fans.
:12:21. > :12:27.Three years ago, the national team was an adept. I remember the first
:12:28. > :12:35.time I was called up for Belgium, there was no one in the stadium.
:12:36. > :12:38.Eden Hazard, he was amazing. We had a challenge where you have to put
:12:39. > :12:42.something on your window, and we went to visit them. People were
:12:43. > :12:49.completely shocked that he was there. It was nice to go to their
:12:50. > :12:52.houses and say hello. Helping children with their rims and things
:12:53. > :13:00.like that. You can see the emotions in their face. We have sold out the
:13:01. > :13:05.stadium eight times in a row, which never happened before. We had an
:13:06. > :13:09.average of about 20000 and now we are full of the time. It is not just
:13:10. > :13:15.the challenges that made that happen, we have played really well
:13:16. > :13:18.qualified for the first in 12 years. But that combination between the
:13:19. > :13:24.bonding and the fact that have played really well has made the
:13:25. > :13:29.campaign successful. I love to play for the national team. The
:13:30. > :13:33.supporters are crazy. They are bunch of nice guys. That is how they
:13:34. > :13:37.position themselves, and that is what the fans like. I believe it may
:13:38. > :13:46.be a good approach for England as well. Commentary of Arsenal against
:13:47. > :13:50.Cardiff on BBC Radio 5live Sport. And the Rugby League World Cup Final
:13:51. > :13:53.is on BBC One from 1:45 this afternoon. And that's it for
:13:54. > :13:59.Saturday Sportsday. Have a good weekend. Goodbye.