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From New York City, we spoke to tennis legend Virginia Wade, who was the last British woman to win the US Open singles title in 1968.

Emma Raducanu’s American dream continued today with appearances on two prime time US breakfast TV shows.

We spoke to broadcaster Clare Balding about last night’s match and we began by asking her to give a sense of the significance of Emma Raducanu’s victory.

He was one of the biggest sports stars of his generation, and it all began on a south London housing estate. Now former England footballer Ian Wright has written a children’s book inspired by that journey.

Afghanistan’s flag will be included in tomorrow’s opening ceremony for the Paralympics, even though the country’s athletes are unable to make it to Japan for the games. 

Well for half a century one man has become known as the ‘Voice of Anfield’ – George Sephton, who’s the stadium announcer and one of the club’s longest serving members of staff.

A number of Paralympic teams have withdrawn from Tokyo 2020, due to the difficulties of pandemic travel and quarantine measures.

The British Olympic silver medallist CJ Ujah has been named as one of four athletes who are now the subject of disciplinary proceedings, after being accused of violating anti-doping rules.

We spoke to Bethany Shriever, who won a BMX Olympic gold in Tokyo. She was left to crowdfund her way to the Olympic trials, after UK Sport cut its funding to the female BMX riders. We began by asking her what it was like when she won the title, celebrating alongside her team-mate Kye Whyte.

We spoke to Jonny Brownlee, who won gold in the mixed triathlon. The victory was his third medal in an Olympic career that began nine years ago in London and we began by asking how these Games have been different for him.

A sprinter from Belarus has been offered a humanitarian visa by Poland, after refusing an order to fly home early from the Tokyo Olympic Games. Krystina Timanovskaya is now under police protection in the Polish embassy, claiming she feared for her safety after she had criticised the Belarus team coaches on social media. Belarus claims…

Discovery’s £900 million rights deal allows the BBC to show just two live events at the same time.

Yayesh, an 18-year-old blind athlete, is defying the odds – and is determined to make it to the Paralympic Games in Tokyo this summer. 

Data shared exclusively with this programme shows just under 2,000 tweets specifically targeting young Black players were flagged as potentially abusive, with 167 considered “high risk” abuse.

We were joined by the writer, activist and author of Think Like a White Man, Nels Abbey, and assistant editor at The Daily Mirror, Darren Lewis.