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Keeping the Wimbledon dream alive

How The Ukrainian tennis project is helping one young player realise her Wimbledon dream after fleeing from her war torn home

We're at Wimbledon hearing about how The Ukrainian tennis project is helping one young player realise her Wimbledon dream after fleeing from her war torn home. Plus we are given a tour of the picturesque ground of the All England Club head gardener Martyn Falconer. Plus, while the biggest stars in tennis are on the court at Wimbledon, Rufus, an American Harris hawk, is there every day to keep an eye out for pigeons. His job is to patrol the skies, scare away pigeons and stop them eating the grass. Jamie Broughton met up recently with Rufus while on patrol with his handler, Donna Davis.

And away from SW19, to a sporting event where for some, the hardest part is simply getting to the venue! The bi-annual Islands Games get underway on the Channel Island of Guernsey on Saturday. The Games brings together athletes from some of the remotest islands around the world for a week of sporting competition Jorgen Peterson is chair of the Island Games and lives on the island of Aland in the Baltic Sea in between Sweden and Finland

And former world triathlon champion in her age group, Kate Strong who is exactly one month in to a 3 month, 4000 kilometre cycle challenge around Britain on a bike made out of bamboo! She's doing it to highlight the plight of the planet.

Photo: Iga Swiatek in action at Wimbledon (Credit: Getty Images)

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Sat 8 Jul 2023 09:06GMT

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