0:00:27 > 0:00:31If there's flip-flops for goalposts then this must be Brazil.
0:00:31 > 0:00:34Welcome to another edition of World Olympic Dreams,
0:00:34 > 0:00:36this time from Rio de Janeiro.
0:00:36 > 0:00:38Football here is a way of life,
0:00:38 > 0:00:42but there's more to sport than just the beautiful game
0:00:42 > 0:00:46because the Olympic games are coming here to this city in 2016.
0:00:46 > 0:00:50In London, we might have witnessed the majority of the transformation
0:00:50 > 0:00:52in time for the Games of 2012,
0:00:52 > 0:00:56but here in Rio, change is in the air.
0:00:58 > 0:01:00Coming up in the programme...
0:01:01 > 0:01:05Two aspiring Olympians from here in Brazil:
0:01:05 > 0:01:09a young judo fighter called Sarah Menezes
0:01:09 > 0:01:12and a young boxer whose life changed forever
0:01:12 > 0:01:16when his father was gunned down and killed.
0:01:16 > 0:01:18HE SPEAKS IN PORTUGUESE
0:01:20 > 0:01:22HE SOBS
0:01:27 > 0:01:31Elsewhere, five-times world boxing champion MC Mary Kom
0:01:31 > 0:01:36on life as a mother of two and the mixed emotions of her sport.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39Maybe your opponent is, kind of, badly hurt.
0:01:39 > 0:01:42- Do you feel bad?- Yeah, of course.
0:01:44 > 0:01:46We meet Emily Seebohm,
0:01:46 > 0:01:51the Aussie swimmer who's endured a torrid last two months with illness.
0:01:51 > 0:01:55Every time I got sick and got bored of being in hospital in my bed,
0:01:55 > 0:01:59I was like, "I've got to go back to swimming," like, "I'm going insane!"
0:02:02 > 0:02:05And finally, we find a school in Pakistan
0:02:05 > 0:02:10that has produced no fewer than 57 international hockey players.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36Most Brazilians are used to round rather than oval balls,
0:02:36 > 0:02:39but these rugby players should be excited because the Rio games
0:02:39 > 0:02:44will welcome rugby sevens as an official sport for the first time.
0:02:44 > 0:02:49It joins a somewhat diverse list of sports included in the Games.
0:02:49 > 0:02:51Some of you might know that tug-of-war
0:02:51 > 0:02:55was once an Olympic sport, but did you know that in 1900,
0:02:55 > 0:02:58one of the events was long jump for horses?
0:02:58 > 0:03:01In August of this year there will be another new sport to add to the list
0:03:01 > 0:03:03and that will be women's boxing,
0:03:03 > 0:03:05and whatever your thoughts about the sport,
0:03:05 > 0:03:09there's one woman who is hoping to crown an extraordinary career
0:03:09 > 0:03:14with an Olympic gold medal - India's boxing queen, MC Mary Kom.
0:03:15 > 0:03:19Magnificent Mary, as she is affectionately known back home,
0:03:19 > 0:03:22has won her fifth world championship since we've been following her.
0:03:29 > 0:03:31She must be a favourite for Olympic success,
0:03:31 > 0:03:35but, as our reporter Emma Jane Kirby discovered,
0:03:35 > 0:03:38the ring isn't the only place where she's had to fight.
0:03:50 > 0:03:55Mary Kom's homeland, Manipur, is far from wealthy.
0:03:58 > 0:04:00In the capital, Imphal,
0:04:00 > 0:04:03violent insurgency has halted much development.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08Indian rickshaws have always been a magnet for tourists,
0:04:08 > 0:04:12but here in Manipur there just aren't any foreign visitors.
0:04:12 > 0:04:16That's because until very recently, tourists were banned from the state
0:04:16 > 0:04:19because it simply isn't stable enough.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24There are around 30 different insurgent groups operating throughout Manipur
0:04:24 > 0:04:28and the result is almost daily killings and violence.
0:04:32 > 0:04:34Mary comes from a remote village.
0:04:38 > 0:04:43Her father was a keen wrestler and Mary shared his love of sport.
0:04:45 > 0:04:49When she was 15, she made a tough decision to leave her family
0:04:49 > 0:04:52to study at the sports academy in the capital, Imphal.
0:04:52 > 0:04:57In those days, women's boxing wasn't an officially recognised sport
0:04:57 > 0:05:00so Mary Kom enrolled as a general athlete.
0:05:05 > 0:05:07HE SPEAKS IN DIALECT
0:05:42 > 0:05:48And she's passing the Kom fighting spirit back down the line.
0:05:48 > 0:05:50I mean balance.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Left.
0:05:52 > 0:05:53Right.
0:05:53 > 0:05:54Left.
0:05:54 > 0:05:57Right. Good.
0:05:57 > 0:06:00One-two. Good.
0:06:00 > 0:06:03Mary's father once warned her she would ruin her looks
0:06:03 > 0:06:07and would never marry if she continued boxing.
0:06:07 > 0:06:10Mary has proved him wrong.
0:06:10 > 0:06:14Her husband, Onler, is not only her manager - he's her mentor.
0:06:14 > 0:06:17And he looks after their four-year-old twins,
0:06:17 > 0:06:19Nai Nai and Raengpe.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27As the London Olympics looms ever closer,
0:06:27 > 0:06:31Mary is spending more and more time training away from her family.
0:06:33 > 0:06:38I miss my kids and they miss me.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42It's difficult to juggle the boxing and the family.
0:06:42 > 0:06:46Yeah, it's very difficult, but I have to do.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51Very difficult,
0:06:51 > 0:06:55but I have to do for my country
0:06:55 > 0:07:00and I have to fulfil my dreams
0:07:00 > 0:07:04coming to 2012 London Olympics.
0:07:14 > 0:07:18Once inside the ring, Mary's focus has to be on the fight
0:07:18 > 0:07:21and only on the fight.
0:07:21 > 0:07:26It's absolutely incredible watching the transformation of Mary Kom in the ring.
0:07:26 > 0:07:28The minute she steps in the ring,
0:07:28 > 0:07:30she stops being this gentle mother-like figure
0:07:30 > 0:07:32that we've become familiar with.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34She becomes a tiger.
0:07:36 > 0:07:39Boxing, it's a discipline.
0:07:39 > 0:07:43When we are not angry,
0:07:43 > 0:07:48I think it's not a real boxer.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51So when we get in the ring,
0:07:51 > 0:07:57if you're not angry then I think you can't win a bout.
0:07:57 > 0:08:00Mary does a lot of her training with male boxers.
0:08:00 > 0:08:04She admits that sometimes it's difficult for her to punch a pretty -
0:08:04 > 0:08:07or, as she says, cute - woman opponent.
0:08:08 > 0:08:12If you hurt somebody after a fight you win,
0:08:12 > 0:08:16maybe your opponent is quite badly hurt.
0:08:16 > 0:08:19- Do you feel bad?- Yeah, of course.
0:08:19 > 0:08:26Of course when I've seen my opponent is getting injury, it's hard.
0:08:26 > 0:08:32So...sometimes it's bleeding also.
0:08:33 > 0:08:38So you feel very bad. Very upset.
0:08:41 > 0:08:43Mary Kom may fight with the boys,
0:08:43 > 0:08:46but she doesn't want to be mistaken for one.
0:08:46 > 0:08:50Keeping her femininity is extremely important to her.
0:08:51 > 0:08:55As a woman, I like shopping
0:08:55 > 0:09:01and I like ladies' dresses, skirts,
0:09:01 > 0:09:05frocks, and Manipur dress, you know?
0:09:05 > 0:09:13Indian dress. I just want to identify myself as a woman.
0:09:13 > 0:09:17This is Imphal's famous women's market.
0:09:17 > 0:09:21Only women are allowed to sell things here.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22Throughout Manipur's history,
0:09:22 > 0:09:26women have always played a dominant role in society.
0:09:26 > 0:09:30In 1891, when the British seized this former kingdom,
0:09:30 > 0:09:33it was women who led the revolt, but even today many of the protests
0:09:33 > 0:09:36against human rights abuses by the army, by the police
0:09:36 > 0:09:40and by insurgents are still led by women.
0:09:40 > 0:09:44So perhaps it's not surprising that this small Indian state
0:09:44 > 0:09:48should have produced a female champion like Mary Kom.
0:10:01 > 0:10:04Whenever you come down to the beachfront in Rio,
0:10:04 > 0:10:06there's always sport taking place.
0:10:06 > 0:10:08This is one of the best to watch -
0:10:08 > 0:10:11It's futevol, a mixture between football and volleyball.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14If they ever turned it into an Olympic sport,
0:10:14 > 0:10:16Brazil would run away with it.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18Until 2008, though,
0:10:18 > 0:10:22no individual Brazilian woman had ever won an Olympic title.
0:10:22 > 0:10:25Sarah Menezes, from the sport of judo, is, though,
0:10:25 > 0:10:28a real contender to win in London 2012.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31It could have been so different, though.
0:10:31 > 0:10:35She's from a remote state in the Northeast of Brazil,
0:10:35 > 0:10:39where judo isn't necessarily the most obvious career choice.
0:10:50 > 0:10:53We met up with Sarah in her home town of Teresina.
0:11:02 > 0:11:05A new beginning.
0:11:05 > 0:11:07Sarah Menezes and her coach have plans
0:11:07 > 0:11:11to open a new judo gym in this deserted shop.
0:11:11 > 0:11:15Her success has enabled her to reinvest in the community
0:11:15 > 0:11:17that has supported her.
0:11:19 > 0:11:23Sarah Menezes is a true home-town hero.
0:11:23 > 0:11:28Aged 22, the judo fighter has already won two world championship medals
0:11:28 > 0:11:32and London 2012 will be her second Olympic games.
0:11:32 > 0:11:35Success, wherever it is in the world,
0:11:35 > 0:11:39is greeted with great fanfare in this remote state,
0:11:39 > 0:11:42where heroes are few and far between.
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0:12:13 > 0:12:16Her path hasn't always been smooth.
0:12:16 > 0:12:21This part of Brazil isn't used to girls taking up a sport like judo.
0:12:21 > 0:12:24Sarah had to hide training sessions from her mother,
0:12:24 > 0:12:27sneaking her judo suit into a bag
0:12:27 > 0:12:30and pretending she was out with friends.
0:12:30 > 0:12:33SHE SPEAKS IN PORTUGUESE
0:12:51 > 0:12:54Brazil is much better known for football than judo,
0:12:54 > 0:12:58but this club says that because of Sarah's success,
0:12:58 > 0:13:00they have seen a huge uptake in the sport here,
0:13:00 > 0:13:02especially for girls.
0:13:20 > 0:13:24The years of hard work have paid off,
0:13:24 > 0:13:28but she feels that she has one major opponent to overcome.
0:13:42 > 0:13:46If Sarah Menezes doesn't win a gold medal in London in 2012,
0:13:46 > 0:13:49she'll be absolutely at the peak of her powers
0:13:49 > 0:13:53here in Rio de Janeiro for the Games of 2016.
0:13:53 > 0:13:58Now, not every athlete can boast a world title, an Olympic title
0:13:58 > 0:14:02and three world records by the time they turn 18.
0:14:02 > 0:14:07But Aussie swimmer Emily Seebohm is no ordinary athlete.
0:14:07 > 0:14:09At every edition of the Summer Olympics,
0:14:09 > 0:14:12success in the pool is a bit of a given for the Aussie team.
0:14:12 > 0:14:14But Emily was just 16
0:14:14 > 0:14:18when she helped them win a gold medal in Beijing in 2008
0:14:18 > 0:14:22in the 4x100 metre medley relay.
0:14:22 > 0:14:26Since then, Emily Seebohm has been through more than her fair share
0:14:26 > 0:14:30of ups and downs, with a run of serious illnesses
0:14:30 > 0:14:34that have blighted her preparations for London.
0:14:40 > 0:14:43Karthi Gnanasegaram went to Brisbane to meet her.
0:14:47 > 0:14:51Becoming an Olympian will always be an epic exercise in problem-solving.
0:14:52 > 0:14:55The problem of your opponents.
0:14:55 > 0:14:58The problem of the limits of your sport.
0:14:58 > 0:15:01The problem of your mind.
0:15:01 > 0:15:03But, for Australian swimmer Emily Seebohm,
0:15:03 > 0:15:06the problem is what her own body has done to her
0:15:06 > 0:15:07over the past year or so.
0:15:08 > 0:15:12Her vital pre-Olympic year came off the rails dramatically
0:15:12 > 0:15:14when she caught swine flu.
0:15:14 > 0:15:16As bad as that was, it was only the beginning.
0:15:16 > 0:15:18What followed was a long recovery,
0:15:18 > 0:15:21blighted by a dizzying list of illnesses.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26Every time I seemed to be doing better times, I'd get sick again,
0:15:26 > 0:15:30so it was tonsillitis - I had about five bouts of that.
0:15:30 > 0:15:34I had a bout of bronchitis, I had a bout of pancreatitis,
0:15:34 > 0:15:37you know, I had everything that you could possibly get
0:15:37 > 0:15:41in, like, a six-month period of when I needed to be at my best.
0:15:41 > 0:15:45Did you think about having to stop swimming completely at any point?
0:15:45 > 0:15:48I think after maybe the fifth or sixth time I was sick,
0:15:48 > 0:15:50I was like, "No, that's it,
0:15:50 > 0:15:53"I'm going to call it quits for this year."
0:15:53 > 0:15:56But I think every time I got sick
0:15:56 > 0:15:59and got bored of being in hospital, in my bed,
0:15:59 > 0:16:03I was like, "I've got to go back to swimming! I'm going insane!"
0:16:03 > 0:16:06After months in and out of hospital,
0:16:06 > 0:16:10Emily's doctors still aren't totally sure what's caused her ill health.
0:16:10 > 0:16:12It may be some sort of extreme allergy
0:16:12 > 0:16:14but, following her latest visit,
0:16:14 > 0:16:18the news, at least, is sounding more positive.
0:16:18 > 0:16:22So you've just been inside for an appointment. What have you found out?
0:16:22 > 0:16:26Um, nothing new, which is good! No news is good news.
0:16:26 > 0:16:29But, yeah, I've got some stuff
0:16:29 > 0:16:33for when I get nosebleeds at altitude and my nose gets too dry.
0:16:33 > 0:16:35And he said that could also
0:16:35 > 0:16:38be why I really easily get colds and flu, so...
0:16:38 > 0:16:41At the moment, you're fairly healthy and everything's going OK?
0:16:41 > 0:16:44- Yeah, really healthy at the moment, so it's good.- Good.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48Her recovery continues here, in the physio room.
0:16:48 > 0:16:51Emily is having weekly sessions of suction cupping
0:16:51 > 0:16:56to stimulate her muscles and increase her feeling of strength in the water.
0:16:56 > 0:17:00I love getting a massage and then the feeling in the water,
0:17:00 > 0:17:05like, you just feel more, I don't know, reach and a lot longer.
0:17:05 > 0:17:08It's a form of treatment that you really do feel...
0:17:08 > 0:17:10er, immediately.
0:17:10 > 0:17:13Her perception in the water is one of...
0:17:15 > 0:17:18..increased length in the water, as she's described.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20Increased breathing capacity.
0:17:20 > 0:17:24Again, it's very hard to prove, but they're factors for the swimmers
0:17:24 > 0:17:27over the years that you find are really important.
0:17:30 > 0:17:33In the Brisbane suburbs, at the Seebohm family home,
0:17:33 > 0:17:37inspiration to drive Emily's recovery is never too far away.
0:17:37 > 0:17:40It's not every house that can boast a welcome like this -
0:17:40 > 0:17:43the Australian flag, complete with the signature
0:17:43 > 0:17:46of every Australian gold medallist from the 2008 Olympics.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49And that's a theme that runs throughout this household.
0:17:49 > 0:17:51You've got Emily's gold medal,
0:17:51 > 0:17:54as well as her eight Commonwealth Games medals
0:17:54 > 0:17:57and certificates for her world records.
0:17:57 > 0:18:00They're all in the Emily Shrine, which is in the main room,
0:18:00 > 0:18:04not that that is a phrase that she likes to use herself.
0:18:04 > 0:18:07These medals and trophies show how far this 19 year old
0:18:07 > 0:18:09has already come in her sport.
0:18:09 > 0:18:11And with her health finally improving,
0:18:11 > 0:18:14her plan to add individual Olympic titles
0:18:14 > 0:18:18to her relay gold from Beijing is back on track.
0:18:18 > 0:18:19I want to go back there
0:18:19 > 0:18:22and be able to do something that I haven't done yet,
0:18:22 > 0:18:24which is get my own individual medal,
0:18:24 > 0:18:26you know, hopefully it's gold
0:18:26 > 0:18:29and hopefully I'm singing my national anthem again.
0:18:48 > 0:18:52You've only got to come to the Copacabana on the weekend
0:18:52 > 0:18:56to see that Brazilians love the outdoor life
0:18:56 > 0:18:59and sport in all its different guises.
0:18:59 > 0:19:03It's not uncommon to find a country that defines itself through sport.
0:19:03 > 0:19:07In Pakistan, there's only room on the back pages for two -
0:19:07 > 0:19:09cricket and hockey.
0:19:14 > 0:19:19They won the Asian games to secure their place for London 2012.
0:19:19 > 0:19:24As the players returned home, our cameras were at Lahore Airport
0:19:24 > 0:19:29to capture the scenes of triumphant supporters greeting the squad.
0:19:30 > 0:19:32And one town in the Punjab
0:19:32 > 0:19:35has produced more hockey players than most.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38Our reporter, Aleem Maqbool, travelled to the school
0:19:38 > 0:19:43that has produced no fewer than 57 international hockey players.
0:19:43 > 0:19:45CHILDREN CHATTER
0:19:45 > 0:19:50This is a story of how a modest school in central Pakistan
0:19:50 > 0:19:53became one of the greatest production lines in world hockey.
0:19:57 > 0:20:02MC High in the small town of Gojra has an incredible record
0:20:02 > 0:20:04for churning out Olympians.
0:20:04 > 0:20:07Well, it is hockey more than anything else
0:20:07 > 0:20:11that has given the pupils here a chance to go out and see the world.
0:20:11 > 0:20:15And it is this remarkable school that has given poor children
0:20:15 > 0:20:18the ability to compete internationally
0:20:18 > 0:20:21with those from much more privileged backgrounds.
0:20:23 > 0:20:25The school's full of pupils
0:20:25 > 0:20:29whose minds are only on one day wearing a Pakistan shirt.
0:20:31 > 0:20:33Pupils like 14 year old Soman.
0:20:36 > 0:20:38He's already one of those
0:20:38 > 0:20:42who's been identified as a hockey star of the future.
0:20:42 > 0:20:44HE SPEAKS IN PUNJABI
0:20:44 > 0:20:47- TRANSLATION:- I'm so lucky to go to this school,
0:20:47 > 0:20:50one which has produced so many gold medallists and Olympians.
0:20:50 > 0:20:54They used the same classrooms I do, and it inspires me.
0:20:55 > 0:21:00The honours board shows that, in the past 40 years,
0:21:00 > 0:21:05this one school alone has produced 57 international hockey players.
0:21:05 > 0:21:06But how?
0:21:09 > 0:21:12It's really all down to one former pupil from the '60s,
0:21:12 > 0:21:16who just happened to become an hockey international.
0:21:16 > 0:21:18HE SPEAKS IN PUNJABI
0:21:18 > 0:21:22Aslam Rodha decided to come back to the school as a coach
0:21:22 > 0:21:24and start a sporting revolution.
0:21:26 > 0:21:28HE SPEAKS IN PUNJABI
0:21:28 > 0:21:30- TRANSLATION:- In this area, there was no industry,
0:21:30 > 0:21:33it was a small town, famous for nothing.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Even the market was empty.
0:21:35 > 0:21:36I wanted to give this place
0:21:36 > 0:21:39and the children at the school the chance to do something great.
0:21:39 > 0:21:42I dreamed of a time when seven or eight members
0:21:42 > 0:21:44of the national hockey squad would come from here.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46And it happened.
0:21:50 > 0:21:52But hockey's not a cheap sport,
0:21:52 > 0:21:57and in Pakistan, around 60 percent live on less than two dollars a day.
0:21:57 > 0:22:00So it's in defiance of the odds that in Gojra,
0:22:00 > 0:22:02you can walk through some areas
0:22:02 > 0:22:06where international sports stars are all around.
0:22:06 > 0:22:09Well, this is Pakistan's real-life Olympic village.
0:22:09 > 0:22:13In just a few streets - a matter of 100 homes or so -
0:22:13 > 0:22:14there live nearly 20 people
0:22:14 > 0:22:18who've represented their country on the hockey field.
0:22:20 > 0:22:24One of them is Kashif, another former MC High School pupil
0:22:24 > 0:22:27who's in the team preparing for London.
0:22:27 > 0:22:29KASHIF SPEAKS IN PUNJABI
0:22:34 > 0:22:36- TRANSLATION:- At school when I was 11,
0:22:36 > 0:22:39they asked us to raise our hands if we wanted to play hockey.
0:22:39 > 0:22:42I did, but my parents were against it.
0:22:42 > 0:22:45Dad wanted me to be a labourer like him, to bring in money.
0:22:45 > 0:22:47But now they're both so proud.
0:22:47 > 0:22:51COMMENTARY IN PUNJABI
0:22:51 > 0:22:56So many players from here have been part of Pakistan's past glories.
0:22:56 > 0:22:59Four members of the current squad went to MC High.
0:23:02 > 0:23:05Among those hoping to continue
0:23:05 > 0:23:08the school's amazing tradition is Soman.
0:23:09 > 0:23:12SOMAN SPEAKS IN PUNJABI
0:23:12 > 0:23:15- TRANSLATION:- My dream's to be an international player,
0:23:15 > 0:23:19to bring honour to the country, to win matches and Olympic gold medals.
0:23:21 > 0:23:22And you have to say it could be
0:23:22 > 0:23:27that he's in one of the best places in the world to achieve it.
0:23:29 > 0:23:31Last year, Brazil overtook the UK
0:23:31 > 0:23:34to become the world's sixth-largest economy,
0:23:34 > 0:23:39but despite that boom, there is still huge inequality here.
0:23:42 > 0:23:47Some 20 percent of Rio's inhabitants live in favelas.
0:23:47 > 0:23:51These are essentially marginalised neighbourhoods -
0:23:51 > 0:23:55shantytowns, like this one, dotted all over the city.
0:23:56 > 0:23:59There are approximately 1,000 favelas in Rio,
0:23:59 > 0:24:01and life here can be tough.
0:24:04 > 0:24:07It's a cliche, but sport offers the opportunity
0:24:07 > 0:24:10to fight your way out of your situation.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12And I've come here, to this favela,
0:24:12 > 0:24:16to meet a man who is doing exactly that.
0:24:19 > 0:24:22Meet Roberto Custodio.
0:24:28 > 0:24:32At 23, he's won the Brazilian championship at welterweight.
0:24:34 > 0:24:38He's in with a shout at a place in the London Olympics.
0:24:38 > 0:24:42He lives in a favela where the drug lords still operate.
0:24:45 > 0:24:48But he's one of the lucky ones.
0:24:48 > 0:24:52HE SPEAKS IN PORTUGUESE
0:25:27 > 0:25:29The Fight For Peace Gym was set up
0:25:29 > 0:25:33by British boxer Luke Dowdney in 2000.
0:25:33 > 0:25:36His aim is straightforward.
0:25:36 > 0:25:37We're just here to do what we do,
0:25:37 > 0:25:40which is to run a successful boxing club
0:25:40 > 0:25:44and to give kids the chance to access education and training courses,
0:25:44 > 0:25:46give them a hand. They have to do the hard work, we don't do that.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49All we do is provide a structure for them.
0:25:49 > 0:25:51And that's the whole, I think...
0:25:51 > 0:25:53The premise of Fight For Peace underneath,
0:25:53 > 0:25:56is that, you know, if you don't train, you get beat.
0:25:56 > 0:25:57It's the same in any sport,
0:25:57 > 0:25:59but it's particularly true in boxing,
0:25:59 > 0:26:01cos it hurts a lot, right?
0:26:01 > 0:26:03So if you don't train for a sport,
0:26:03 > 0:26:05you're going to get punched a lot, you're going to get knocked out.
0:26:05 > 0:26:08And life's like that, you know?
0:26:09 > 0:26:11Roberto has lived his life on the edge
0:26:11 > 0:26:16between the success he's seeing today and tragedy.
0:26:16 > 0:26:20When he was 13, his father fell out with the local drug dealers
0:26:20 > 0:26:22who control so much of life here.
0:26:22 > 0:26:26He fled the favela, but came back to visit,
0:26:26 > 0:26:27and was executed.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54HE CRIES
0:27:01 > 0:27:04The people here at Fight For Peace believe firmly
0:27:04 > 0:27:06that if you show young people like Roberto
0:27:06 > 0:27:11an alternative to a life of crime, and provide them with an education,
0:27:11 > 0:27:13it will reap benefits.
0:27:14 > 0:27:17Already, people here are feeling the effects
0:27:17 > 0:27:21of other favelas being cleared of the drug lords.
0:27:21 > 0:27:26Guns have been disappearing from the streets over the last few months.
0:27:26 > 0:27:28Something is changing.
0:27:29 > 0:27:32There are so many strengths and there's so much in the community,
0:27:32 > 0:27:35in the favela, which we should be proud of,
0:27:35 > 0:27:37and rather than put walls up in front
0:27:37 > 0:27:39or say that you have to kind of...
0:27:39 > 0:27:41"Keep that over there, it's not part of our city."
0:27:41 > 0:27:43Because of the community policing programme,
0:27:43 > 0:27:46favelas are more accessible to people so they're learning
0:27:46 > 0:27:49that they are not these terrible enclaves of violent people,
0:27:49 > 0:27:51there's actually only a couple of percent of the community
0:27:51 > 0:27:53that's been involved in that stuff.
0:27:53 > 0:27:5599 per cent of people that live here
0:27:55 > 0:27:58are hard-working individuals just trying to get by.
0:27:58 > 0:28:01That's it from this edition of World Olympic Dreams
0:28:01 > 0:28:02in Rio de Janeiro,
0:28:02 > 0:28:04a city that is probably going to have to take
0:28:04 > 0:28:06a step into the unknown.
0:28:14 > 0:28:16Coming up next time,
0:28:16 > 0:28:19I'll be catching up with the Iraqi rower I first met in Baghdad.
0:28:19 > 0:28:24He has one final chance to qualify for London 2012.
0:28:24 > 0:28:26Can he make it?
0:28:26 > 0:28:28# I fly like paper Get high like planes
0:28:28 > 0:28:31# If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
0:28:31 > 0:28:34# If you come around here I'll make 'em all day
0:28:34 > 0:28:37# I'll get one done In a second if you wait
0:28:37 > 0:28:40# I fly like paper Get high like planes
0:28:40 > 0:28:42# If you catch me at the border I got visas in my name
0:28:42 > 0:28:45# If you come around here I'll make 'em all day
0:28:45 > 0:28:49# I'll get one done In a second if you wait. #
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