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Good evening from Cardiff. Tonight we have a bumper programme. The

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Olympians, Paralympians, British Lions, Glamorgan Dragons, and a

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Premiership manager. Stay with us for the programme. Coming up

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Other home unions ready for the Rugby Sevens Team GB? You need Team

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GB playing two years out from Rio. Dog days at Glamorgan, how can the

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county recapture past glories? supporters have lost the will to

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live. Tony Pulis on premier-league style and aspirations. If you said

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to me I would be lucky enough to manage Wales, there would be

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fantastic. -- that would be fantastic. All that to come, plus

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we will be hearing from Olympic and Paralympic medallists Hannah Mills

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and Ellie Simmonds. But first, here we are at their home of Welsh rugby,

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and with a Lions tour at the end of the season there are discussions

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already up and down the country on just he will make Warren Gatland's

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scored two stadia? In four years rugby sevens becomes an Olympic

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sport. Steffan Garrero has been looking at how will the Home Unions

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plan to create the Great Britain As the Welsh side enter their 8th

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consecutive season and defend their World Cup title plans for a Great

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Britain side in Rio 2016 are being hatched. Rugby sevens has come a

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long way from an end-of-season knees-up for the boys, to a full-

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scale Olympics board. I was fortunate enough to do three of the

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tournament, Adelaide, Hong Kong, South Africa, back when I was 19,

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had a great laugh, very enjoyable, the first time exposed to those

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crowds, you play for 50,000 people in Hong Kong, and at that age that

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experience is invaluable. The first point I thought I could be a

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professional rugby player was playing sevens. It was a really big

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thing for me, boosted my confidence, my skills. It was a massive

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platform for me, grateful for the coaches for bigamy. -- picking me.

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Harry Robinson is the latest to the produced getting experience of the

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Sevens series first. With the lure of the Olympics in four years' time

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the spotlight is on the shorter form of the game as an end product

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as well as a developmental tool. is now an Olympic sport, we have

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had meetings, and there are so massive opportunities for Great

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Britain. If we get the selection right and the management, there are

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serious medal possibilities. There is no reason we cannot go to Rio in

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2016 and win a gold medal in men's and women's rugby. You need to move

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it on at a pace. Unless we get this organised fairly quickly now we

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will run out of time compared with other countries who will be more

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organised. One of the major hurdles to overcome is how to make a

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British team gel. Sport Wales has seen the International Rugby

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Board's initial plans for sevens over the next four years. They make

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no mention of Team GB appearing until the Olympics. Qualification

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which has yet to be ratified by the International Olympic Committee can

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be achieved by the individual performances of any of Wales,

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Scotland and England. Controversially giving GB three

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shots at qualifying. It is quite a complex situation given the teams

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that have been voting for this process, it bodes well be in a

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position against the beat, so it is unfair, they understand it.

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Separate nations combining for a one-off event is something we saw

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with the Olympic football team in London, and the British Olympic

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Association one lessons to be learned from that model. -- want

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lessons. If you look at the Welsh players, they are brilliant. Deep

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down they probably wished they had been better prepared in terms of

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the actual tournament. That was why it was so annoying they lost.

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you are plainly Zealand and cold, you will get beat. The team has got

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to plan tournament. You have got to factor all this in. My big we shout

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is we're not looking back in four years and saying we left it too

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late, we left too much to do. Imagine playing in tournaments

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before the Olympic Games, in terms of the I R b seven series that

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works well, would you like to see the British side involved? I think

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it has got to be. There has got to be some upfront discussions now

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about how it will work. United in TD -- Team GB would be at least two

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years before Rio. We need to get the organisation in town to give

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them a realistic chance. They will obviously have the Rugby World Cup

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in the previous year, would it be feasible for any of those, George

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Joffe, to be dropped in? -- George North. Personally I think yes. He

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certainly makes the lines to gather them up. He could make the sevens

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team if he wants to. If you want to be the World Cup, that is your big

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priority but in terms of the Olympic players, the sevens players

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would be evicted for me -- big tick. Whether the British team is made up

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of sevens experts or big name stars we understand the Irish RFU would

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expect all of their centrally contracted players to turn out for

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the Republic of Ireland in 2016, even if they qualified for Great

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Britain. Four years is a long time but the Olympic cycle has already

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begun. The current crop of Welsh seven players begin the World

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series on Australia's Gold Coast in a fortnight, and for many this is

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the start of a journey that could see them end up on a podium in Rio.

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There are members of the squad that will be in the GB squad in 2016 and

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there is great motivation to stop we have seen how London has

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influenced the country, really, in terms of sport, everybody got

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behind it and it was an amazing event. That would be huge.

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It is good to here World Cup- winning coach Sir Clive Woodward

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giving the big thumbs-up to George North and his Lions heads. From one

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man who polarises opinion to another. And tomorrow after two

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successive defeats in the Premier League, it Swansea travelled to the

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Britannia Stadium to face Stoke and a Welsh manager he is never one to

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Stokes style is not to everybody's taste. It was once described by

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Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger as rugby, not football. But what does

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he make of the criticism? Absolutely fantastic when that

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happens. It even he has so some kind words of a certain periods. --

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said some kind words. We are happy with ourselves, with our lot. We

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think we are doing it the right way. We like to play through the pitch

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quickly,, we like to get around the box as quickly as we can. We are a

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better team than what people give us credit for, we are not as direct

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as people think we are but we don't mind them thinking that way. That

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is fine. Everybody said we were absolute sets to be relegated the

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first year, it has been a great journey. Since 18 promotion to the

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Premier League in 2008 the Welshman has guided his team to three mid-

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table finishes -- since getting promotion. Should heed look at a

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more direct approach? There is nothing right a wrong, just adapt

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the system to the players you have, or adapt the place to the system

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you want to play. The team plays very direct, especially at home, a

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lot of pressure a new, and you have to try to get out of that pressure,

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we did have to defend too deep because they are very strong.

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has signed some good players, they are physically more adept, have

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given more strength, especially size wise. A proud Welshman, he has

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offered to take -- take charge for the national side following the

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death of Gary Speed. For two defeats in the opening World Cup

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qualifiers he is a sympathetic observer. Been disappointing, I

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watched the game, you want him to do well because the fact we haven't

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done so well for a long time. What Wales have to do, they have to

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start winning a few games. If they can pick up a couple of wins in the

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next three, four games, the table might change. The back end of the

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tournament to qualify for a World Cup would then become very

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interesting. Chris is an experienced manager of. He is a

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football man and he will get a few more breaks. He has come up and

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spoken to Ryan about playing for Wales. I think there is a broken

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leg there for the Arsenal player. This tackle broke the leg of the

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Wales captain so was playing for Wales ever really on the cards?

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has come up as they do Ryan, five minutes, it really over the

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situation with Ramsey and what he had said about Ramsay, he would

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have to give the all-clear for Rhine to play. Chris wanted to

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clear that up with Ryan, what they said between each other. Ryan wants

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to continue with his dream of playing for England. Chris is doing

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as much as he possibly can to try and get as many good players

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together as he can, and then put his plays in place to play well,

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win games. In the cut-throat world of the Premier League he is now the

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4th longest serving manager in the division. What about the switch to

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international management? For me the Welsh job is for an experienced

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manager. I think managing the Premier League club is for younger

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manager. Having said that, look at Ferguson, Arsene Wenger, they ain't

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doing too badly. And still a middle-aged man, a long time to go,

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I hope. I don't think any person would not want to manage the

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country, I would love one day if you sit in the I would be looking

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have to manage Wales, there would be fantastic. Wales may have to

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wait for him, club management is the place for him for the time

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being, at least. I never take anything for granted, especially in

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this game. That is why every day I wake up and try to work out what I

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did the previous day to make sure I stay in it, because I still love

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the game, still got a lot of energy and passion for it. You have to be

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dedicated, you have to be full-on as a manager, had fully --

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hopefully that light inside me keeps burning for a few years.

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In an intern you can hear coverage of that match on Radio Wales and

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Radio Cymru. We will stay with Swansea now as

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the City can rightly boast being home to one of the stars of the

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London Paralympics. She won more medals on her own than entire

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countries like India and Argentina. We went to meet the golden girl of

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It is gold for the 13-year-old Ellie Simmonds, a tremendous

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performance. In Beijing 2008, aged 13, Ellie Simmonds became the

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second youngest British Paralympian ever. She returned with two gold

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medals, became the young sports personality of the year, she then

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followed that up with 10 world championship titles, and five

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European gold medals. A poster girl before the 2012 games, her

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achievements in the Aquatics Centre placed her as one of the faces in

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the greatest of British sporting summers. Born with a bone growth

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disorder her father said Mike Gayle has made the world stop and think.

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-- My Girl. Many congratulations on all your achievements. What has

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life been like since the Games? Life since the Games has been

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amazing, the experiences I have got to do, the things I have had the

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opportunity to take part in has been unbelievable, I'm so lucky.

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The success I have had at the Games was up there, yet the things I have

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to do -- I get to do afterwards a rub their as well. Elly was born in

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the West Midlands with a condition which is a form of dwarfism. For

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her to realise her potential in competitive swimming she would have

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to start training full-time with her coach, Billy Pye, in Swansea.

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Rather than leave the whole family, her father, brother and three

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sisters stayed at home and she and her mother moved to to Swansea.

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only wait to get the best out of myself was to move to the Wales

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international pool, and facilities, the group that trainer, it was

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perfect for me to get the best out Leading up to London, I had a lot

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of pressure on me. The atmosphere and having that massive crowd

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behind you and having all the places sold out with British

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supporters, it gave us that extra bit and it really helped. You have

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to enjoy the success at the time. She was involved in an epic race

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with the American in the 400 metres but broke the world record. In the

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200 metres individual medley, it was another gold and another world

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record. In the 100 metre freestyle, she swam a personal best by over a

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second but still lost to the American despite swimming as fast

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as she ever had in her life. I did not expect to swim as well as I did.

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I said six personal bests. I walked away with two goals, a silver and

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bronze. After you finish one of the races, the emotion is evident. You

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splashed water over your face to disguise it. Was it really

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emotional audit relief? It was emotion after the 400 metre

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freestyle. It was such a tight race. She broke my world record

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beforehand and since then I have trained so hard and to have such a

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tough race, we were neck and neck all the way and it was every

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emotion possible. The motto of the Paralympics was to inspire a

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generation and to change people's attitudes towards the Paralympic

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Games. To you think -- do you think that has happened? The support from

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the general public has been amazing. Paralympics bought his right up

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there now. It will have inspired a lot of youngsters and hopefully

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they will be the next generation. Your father said, "My Girl has made

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the world stop and think". Is that true? I don't know to be honest. I

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think I have contributed but it's not just me. The whole of Team GB

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did amazing. I played my part. what next for Ellie Simmonds?

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have achieved everything I wanted to achieve but I've always want

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more. I want to push myself to the best of my ability and when I know

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I have done that, I don't know what I'll do, but at the moment I'm

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enjoying it. If I don't enjoy it, I'll stop.

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To cricket now and another huge blow for Glamorgan this week as

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star bowler James Harris confirmed he was leaving the county to join

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Middlesex. So will failures on the field lead to more top players

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leaving? And where next for Glamorgan after another

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disappointing season? Ian Hunt This is the new cricket museum at

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Glamorgan where fans can reminisce about the glory days and trophies

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won which must feel like an age ago now and when one poor season

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follows another and you star players bale out, you have to

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wonder what it will take for Glamorgan to ever have more great

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moments like these? Recriminations and finger-pointing after another

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poor season when Glamorgan won just eight of their 38 matches. A

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radical proposal from the chairman who told us that heads should roll

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in high places. I don't think we've got the right people there. From

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the chairman to be chief executive to the committee. To be honest, I

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think you need to sweep it all away. What Glamorgan a needs now is a

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whole culture change. The supporters have lost the will to

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live. There are fed up with it all. Quite frankly, Glamorgan has become

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a laughing stock. I honestly believe that in order to change the

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culture, we have to move some people on. Glamorgan's chief

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executive was unable to respond because he is a hot up -- on

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holiday. But he responded to up the criticism in a phone interview.

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are halfway through the job and what is needed is not some radical

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quick fix. What is needed is a lot of hard work and for the whole club

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to pull together. We have a pretty clear plan of what needs to happen

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through the winter. Nobody is making excuses and nobody is hiding

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what has happened and everyone is determined to fix it. This is the

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gruesome breakdown of summer 2012. games -- three games. There are

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second bottom of their one-day league with just three victories.

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The 2020 campaign was ruined by the rain and poor form. It is pretty

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simple in cricket to see how well you have performed because it is

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black and white. It is in averages and way you finish in the table. We

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are short of where we want to be. Glamorgan have been a losing side

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for a long time. When it comes under close matches, they know how

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to lose better than they know how to win. That is something that

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needs to be turned around. There are no quick fixes. I watched a

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fair bit of their cricket this season and it seems to lack that

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absolute determination. We won three championships and those were

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done by teams that actually believed they could win. I don't

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get the feeling when I watched that there is a passion out there.

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are a side were not used to winning games of cricket, they're not going

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to have the belief. We have to give extra players in war are used to

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win games and their attitude can become infectious. All we have to

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get our support staff and coaches to drum into the guys what we need

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to do to win games of cricket. Doesn't it come down to talent and

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perhaps that you don't have the talented players that this county

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used to have? I think we've got a team that is talented enough to

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perform. We are not the best team in the competition but we do have a

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team that can perform. When we did perform to our ability we competed

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with anybody. But they keep hearing the same thing over and over again.

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This year will be better, we will work hard, but there is never any

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change. We are looking at a few tours, potentially a tour to South

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Africa, India or Australia. We are keen to take the players away on an

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intensive 12 day-trip and get them working hard away from the winter

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here. We also want to bring in some specialists. You have to think

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outside the Square and look at different people. But failure comes

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at a cost with Glamorgan's star bowler James Harris confirming a

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move to Middlesex this week's. -- this week. To lose a player you

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have seen since he was 13 or 14, it is disappointing. I think if he'd

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have stayed, England honours would have come. But he feels that going

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to the first division will promote his chances further and I can't

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blame him for that. Cricket is getting more like football with the

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transfer system. James Harris things he's got a better chance in

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the first edition so off he goes. The danger is that all second-

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division clubs could be feeder clubs for the first division. A

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player like James Harris feels the only way he can further his career

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is to move on. It is disappointing. Supporters might put up with

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anything as long as there are more moments like these again. As long

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as another winter of hard work brings something to smile about

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next summer. Ian Hunt reporting there and Sport

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Wales will keep you up to date with all the news from the SWALEC

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stadium as it happens. But back to the Olympic success now. The first

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Welsh woman to win a medal in Olympic sailing was Hannah Mills,

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who came home with a silver. Steffan Garrero caught up with her

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at an event being held in Cardiff for the first time.

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This is what is known as extreme sailing, designed to redefine

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sailing as a spectator sport and it gives the cloud -- the crowd a

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close-up few. The competition attracts some of the best

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professional sailors in the world. What have the past few weeks been

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like? Manic. We finished the games and went to the closing 7 --

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ceremony. We then went back and forth to London to do all kind of

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random things like for two days and media days. When were you happy

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with your silver medal? Wednesday when our fleet racing

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finished and we had a day off before the final race. We secured

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the silver that night and we were pretty excited that night. Standing

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there, getting the medal you have dreamed of your whole life, it is

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kind of frustrating when you wanted the gold but it is just a bizarre

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feeling. You can't describe what emotions you go through. We feel we

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have got some unfinished business in Rio. We definitely want that

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gold medal. Back in her home town, Hannah Mills has joined Team Wales.

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It is going to be very exciting racing out here. It is really nice.

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The Olympics was a high pressure event and they wanted to nail it.

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It is nice to come here and enjoy sailing and enjoy a different

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challenge. Compared to the rest of the sport, budgets on the extreme

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series are relatively small. boats are not too expensive but

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they are made of carbon. They can break quite easily. It is full-on

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when it goes wrong. They are big boats but the concept is exactly

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the same. It is just a bit quicker and mental at times! The series is

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a change of of eight races all over the world. Races are 10 minutes

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long and courses are mostly oval in shape. It is sailing's version of

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the Velodrome Warwick running track. To adjudicate amongst the chaos,

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umpires on the water issue immediate penalties for

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infringements. As the teams move to the retreat -- Riviera for the next

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leg, the Welsh group are looking forward to next year. We want a

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Welsh brand represented for the full tour and the eight events.

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We wish Hannah Mills and team Wales all the very best.

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That's it for this evening. Remember to let us know if you know

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someone who deserves to be our BBC Cymru Wales Sports Unsung Hero this

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year. They have to be unpaid, and over 16-years-old. All the details

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