Now on bbc news a look at the coronavirus pandemic and the impact on the sporting world now its time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. With the virus stopping competition around the world in its tracks. Tomorrow we will see quite a bit of sunshine and there will be seven heavy may be sent sundry showers. There will be some cloud parts into northern england, elsewhere clear and dry but still be cooler air and showers by the end of the night into hello, i am gavin ramjaun. Scotland. Quite chilly for east normally, i bring you all the latest sports news and interviews, i report anglia. Into sunday, this low pressure anglia. Into sunday, this low pressure system are talking on triumphs and disappointments of about is bringing some showers from top level competition but these are not normal times. The word go, some are turning heavy humanity has changed into the afternoon for stop there and that means that sport will also be some showers further has changed as well. Southin will also be some showers further south in response to some warmer air in this programme, here, some of these can be fun to be we reflect on how the coronavirus pandemic has affected gcioss here, some of these can be fun to be across wales to the midlands and athletes all over the world. North east england. Sundry. Could we hear their fears on the present and their hopes for the future where we can be reaching 21, 20 2 degrees in the once again report on the joys of south east but much cooler across the north. It stays cooler into next competitive sport. We will also hear from week as well and we see some athletes helping their communities during tough times, significant rain moving up from the 00 02 05,543 4294966103 13 29,430 south on tuesday. We will hear how their training is going, some are in lockdown and how they feel about the cancellation of famous global sporting events and what that means for their mindset and mental health. This is sport in the time of coronavirus. Back on the 22nd ofjanuary, the International Olympic committee cancelled the Olympic Boxing qualifiers in wuhan, the chinese city where the coronavirus outbreak began. Little did we know then it would be the first of Many International sporting events to be cancelled or postponed in 2020. Coronavirus continues to cause havoc with the sporting calendar. And other global sporting event has been affected by the coronavirus outbreak. Manchester citys premier league match due to be played at home to arsenal later has been cancelled. Four games were postponed on sunday. The latest sporting events to be affected by the coronavirus. The six nations. In the weeks that followed, the nba were suspended, the golf masters was postponed and on the 24th of march, the huge decision to postpone the Tokyo Olympics and paralympics until 2021 was ta ken. I cried because it is hard to reset a calendar and the clock like that when you have been preparing your whole life to be ready at this certain time so to have that setback. It was kind of crushing. But, obviously with everything going on there is bigger problems than the olympics been postponed. But for us as athletes, it is hard to get your head round it. It is going to be huge, especially once we come out of this and everything is back on the ground rolling and japan will do a terrific job, now they have a whole extra year to plan so it is going to be massive, i think the world will need that unity again. We obviously have a bigger priority in the health of the whole globe, we dont know how this virus will progress, we dont know when a vaccine will be available or how things will work with each different nation and the curve of the virus as it moves through the first wave so until we have a vaccine, we just dont know. But we are as sure as we can ever be about anything that the games will go ahead next year and it was absolutely the right decision to make and it was one that i was expecting. For the First Time Since the second world war, the all england tennis championships at wimbledon were cancelled. A huge fortnight of sport wiped from the british sporting summer. Practically speaking, there was no way to do it and be safe and guarantee that nobody would get sick from playing even against each other so there is too many unknowns at the moment but what we do know is pretty scary. It is definitely the right decision to adhere to all the guidelines and it is about keeping people safe, so it is not surprising but there is also part of me that hopes to play, wishes to play, looks forward to playing and so that side, it is sad and it is a bit disappointing. In a constantly changing environment, there is little certainty about when postponed events will resurface. Those at the sharp end of sport realise the Bigger Picture at play here. I think whatever decisions are made at the moment everybody respects them. It is uncharted times and unprecedented times and whatever the decision that the boards make, they are very difficult and you cant do anything but respect them and move on and stay safe. Of course there is worse things are not being able to watch sport with all the Health Problems that are happening in people suffering around the world. I am a huge formula 1 fan and it is a pity for me because i would love to be watching the races but now, like everybody else. Everybody is in the same boat. There are so many millions and millions of people who have lost theirjobs and income. Tennis is a luxury. This will be a team effort from all of us and the whole world. This is the time i think for some of us to stay at home and not leave our houses. We have a complete lockdown. So what do some of the biggest names in sport get up to when theyre on lockdown . Well, naturally, they want to keep fit and they used the opportunity with the free time to improve their skills. Training for elite athletes in a lockdown situation is proving a challenge, especially for some athletes who dont know when their sport will be able to resume. Some are better placed than others. We spoke to several athletes about how they are coping with the new normal. Every day i still exercise for three hours a day. It is funny because i think i do more now than when i am actually training. When im in training, it is an hour and half in the morning, ate my lunch and go home whereas now, i am trying to do a little bit of football, my garden isnt really big enough, it is not the same as a football pitch that then i have to go on the bike to get some fitness and then i have to go and lift some weights to get a bit of strength as well so im kind of going from one form of exercise to the other so it is taking a lot longer than it normally does. As a road cyclist and someone who is used to being up and down a black line, lam probably quite well prepared for being stuck in a garage staring at a brick wall and we can still get out on our bikes which is nice. I am probably more of a lone trainer, i dont train with others, so it is not so bad, i certainly havent been struggling like i know some people are really, really struggling with it. If it was up to me i would want to stick what my normal routine has been but that is not the case so, when we go from here . Figuring out how to get better, that is not something thatjust has to be completely gone or obliterated because my normal routine isnt the same as what it once was, i have a new routine now, my work out is not the same, i still have very limited pool time, i can still actually do my normal list routine, my strength coach has weights in his garage but it is a new routine for everybody. Currently in sydney australia. In a two week quarantine in government run accommodation. We brought out our own bike trainer that you basically can ride indoors. We have got quite a lot of gym equipment with us so we have a swiss ball which we have inflated and a gym matt. We have resistance bands and we have tied them to the clothes rail and we are doing some sort of swimming stuff with that. Hungarys katinka hosszu was one of thousands of athletes gearing up for the start of 2020 with the summer Tokyo Olympic games. The triple gold medallist from rio in 2016 was hoping for more medal success in the pool but she told us the postponement could mean an even bigger celebration of sport in 2021. It is strange times we are living in. I am at home, myself and my family are healthy and safe but i know it is a crazy time for the world right now. Obviously, this year was going to be huge for you and all the best sportswomen and men around the world with the tokyo games and obviously, there was going to be the european championships in budapest as well so, talk us through how much things have changed over the past few months and how much you had to adapt. It has been pretty crazy and pretty surreal what is happening, obviously when the virus started around january and we started hearing news about it, i dont think we thought that it would affect us so much. The olympics have been cancelled and the europeans have been cancelled and pushed to next year. The really stressful times when we didnt know what was going to happen with the olympics and now that we have questions answered, i think it is much easier to stay at home and know what is going to happen for next year. I have to think through my preparation and think about what i should do in terms of getting ready for the olympics in 2021. Now, i have a really long period of time where i will not be racing. The olympics have been delayed by a year. Obviously, it is not ideal but do you think this can be, even more of a celebration in one years time in that the world will have come through so much. How big do you think the tokyo games will be next year now . We kind of forget how much we are lucky to have sport, how lucky we are that we can swim and there is something that we can do and now that it is taken away for a period of time, i think we are going to appreciate it even more, just even to get in the pool and be able to train. So, i think the 2021, i think that i think that now we appreciate it is happening and we appreciate that we can train. It has been quite an overwhelming few weeks to see how people have been helping in their communities. The smallest of gestures are having the biggest of differences for people who are disadvantaged or vulnerable. Sports men and women are playing their part as well. We have been lucky enough to catch up with some of them to hear how they dedication is being received. It is quite tough at this moment i dont think ive seen anything like this in south africa. The foundation is not even launched yet and we had tojump on and help as much as we could so we are targeting the front line people, which is obviously the medical team, trying to help as much as we can, got some sanitiser for the public hospital, we have supplied three Public Hospitals at the moment and there are a lot of other ngos who are helping as much as they can. Food is a big problem at the moment, that is why most of the people, they have to leave their house to look for something to eat so we are pushing hard on fighting hunger and making sure people get meals. There are kids who have to go to school to get a meal so we want to try and provide for that and make sure that we help as much as we can. I have been helping out with the medical team on a general medicine ward. I was on the phone to them on wednesday last week, begging for a job, so they said, yes we have one for you, come on up, if anyone has ever been on a rowing machine, it is not very stimulating. Out on the water is beautiful and you have lovely scenery and get to push your body and you see yourself going fast passed hedges, but inside, nothing movesjust you and it is the same movement over and over again 2000 or 3000 times each session and it is a very Welcome Change for the next few months but it will be very challenging to continue with the Training Programme alongside that. Medicine has always been the number one and to be honest, i have missed that element of my life over the past few months. Landed back from australia a ten i landed back from australia about ten days ago. Something that i thought about a couple of days before i actually found out that it has been suspended, i felt that i wanted to be closer to my family but also working and helping in any way i could hear with the nhs. So, when the league was postponed, to me it was a really easy decision. On monday i started back at the hospital that i was working in before i left for australia. It is overwhelming because it is so new and for me, i was nervous going back into it all not knowing what to expect. It is not something that i have read in a medical textbook and it is not something that i have encountered before and it is also new and there is so much hype and media around it that it is difficult to put that all to one side and just go to work. As a captain of my Football Club, i cant sit here and ta ke Football Club, i cant sit here and take a lot of credit for it, it was jordan who came up with the initiative, the idea and he pitched it to the rest of the captains in the premier league and it is one thing one Football Club donating some way 01 thing one Football Club donating some way or to the nhs which is great, but i think it shows so much support within the football community, not just in support within the football community, notjust in the premier league as well, to show that we are united as one despite what is going on in the football league, rivalries aside because at the moment we dont know when that will be up and running. In the meantime, this is a great opportunity for the players to show how much the nhs means to us, charities, hospices, everything that they are doing at the moment to fight this pandemic, this coronavirus. My wife, louise, her auntie is the head of paediatrics at the Royal Brompton hospital. As the cove rt the Royal Brompton hospital. As the covert outbreak started, is the covid 19 outbreak started, we got in touch to find out what we can do to help the hospital. We thought about auctioning my world cup shirt and that would be a another way we could raise money for the hospital. £62,000 for a machine that will help patients. So, with the shirt a bit 66 thousand, it is going to be able to purchase one of those machines. It gives more meaning to the shirt and that world cup final. It is obviously important for athletes to keep fit during this uncertain time and some are finding more bizarre ways to keep entertained during a period of lockdown. What i would say is, dont try some of these at home. Welcome to my flat. If you would like to step into my gymnasium. As you can see, it is virtually a small empty room. 0n the bmx, i can do some tricks on the flat ground without ramps in my car park and there also this funny thing you can do where you lie on your back and you can replicate some of the tricks. Quite a change to be stuck indoors, iam not tricks. Quite a change to be stuck indoors, i am not used to being inside. It is a bit embarrassing showing everybody what we had in the garage, we should have cleaned it before but we took it all out, we have just tried to get as much space as we can so we can put down as have just tried to get as much space as we can so we can put down as many mats as we can, hopefully it wont be too long. That was just something funi be too long. That was just something fun i saw and i decided to do and it was a lot harder than i thought i was a lot harder than i thought i was wearing really tight pants but it was actually a hit, sol was wearing really tight pants but it was actually a hit, so i am happy that everybody enjoyed it. But it couple took a couple of times. We are all at home and doing this together so anything that can bring us together so anything that can bring us together as a community is kinda nice. The biggest challenge for me about isolated is being stuck at home with my thoughts all day because before, iwould be in the gym, i would because before, iwould be in the gym, iwould be because before, iwould be in the gym, i would be training and have that distractionjust gym, i would be training and have that distraction just being gym, i would be training and have that distractionjust being here, your thoughts are so loud and you are trying to answer a lot of unknown questions. What will life be like after this, when we get back to the gym, how will this play out with this pandemic . Theres a lot of Unanswered Questions that people around the world need to know but it is going to take some time before we all get back to normal life. This summer all get back to normal life. This summer would have been your swansong in the sport, you would be retiring after that and now you have to do it for 15 months again. That must be a big thing to process really. For you personally, what will be the biggest challenge over the next 15 months . Staying engaged mentally. I was ready to clock out and be done in three months and i had had that set for four years so how do you go from that to one day being told it is going to be another year, it is hard to reset that clock. But all of us as athletes have to do it so we are not alone. What is your motivation now, now that you have accepted that there is another 15 months . My boat motivation now is proving to myself that i can go another year and do it again and hopefully be better than i was in rio. I was a rookie then, in a way, your second time is on a scarier because you have a lot of expectations to try and uphold. The Tour De France was supposed to start on the 27th ofjune but given the ban on Public Events in france, that has now been postponed. The new date for the event, one of the biggest in the sporting world, its the 29th of august. We caught up with a 2018 champion Geraint Thomas and he told us champion Geraint Thomas and he told us how he is preparing from home as well as raising money for nhs charities. In my garage in cardiff ona charities. In my garage in cardiff on a turbo trainer. You come up with the idea maybe ten days ago. I wa nted the idea maybe ten days ago. I wanted to do something myself and i thought raising some money for the nhs would be a good way to do it and icame up nhs would be a good way to do it and i came up with the idea of mirroring the nhs workers shift pattern, basically doing three back to back 12 hour shift on the turbo here in the garage in cardiff and, im not going to lie, when i woke up at half past five this morning, i was thinking what have i got myself into here. You start to ache because youre not moving a lot, youre stuck in one position. I think tomorrow and the day after are going tomorrow and the day after are going to be worse but obviously it is just great to see the donations coming in and it is all going to a very worthy cause which keeps morale high. From my point of view. And a lot of riders ive spoken to, i think the main thing is if the Tour De France can go ahead, that is like the pinnacle of the sport and that is why sponsors come into the sport because of that race so it has been frustrating having no idea when we will be next racing but as we all know, there is a lot bigger things that need to be sorted out first. I have heard so many stories about nhs workers. It is notjust them going into hospital and putting their own health at risk but also they are having to self isolate, they are going home to an empty house, their loved ones, their children, their partners are having to move out. It isa partners are having to move out. It is a massive commitment from them and it struck a chord with me and i thought well, we have such a privilege to live related just be able to get paid to compete in sport and it will only make a small difference but, i wanted to try and do something at least. Hello . It has been a drag. I didnt realise 12 hours was quite so long, we raise an incredible amount of money, almost £300,000. Im glad it is almost over there because the last two hours ive hardly been able to sit on the saddle. All the money that has just been coming in a sort of kept me going and the fact that i have a live feed looking at me so everybody can see if i stop sol live feed looking at me so everybody can see if i stop so i cant really stop. Amazing to see the amount of support, people coming and riding with me and all the donations, it shows how much the nhs and what eve ryo ne shows how much the nhs and what everyone working there, what they are doing, everybody getting behind, it is amazing. I think me, myself, i have mist watching rugby and Football Games and once we get back training on the road like normal, it will be a great feeling. Just a huge thanks to everybody and join me and donated but obviously the biggest thanks go to everyone working on the nhs and their commitment and everything they are doing, it is unbelievable. Geraint thomas there on his hopes for a return to cycling. And sport will return soon, date unspecified. The drama, tears and cheers will be back but sport, just like society, could be very different in the years ahead and we wish for better times. From me, it is goodbye for now. Hello there, much like this week just gone, today was a fine one for most with plenty of sunshine around all of the cloud was pretty stubborn to burn back on the east coast. Many places so the sunshine and again, it was pretty one, not quite as warm as the last few days. We start to see some changes as we head into tomorrow, there will be quite a bit of dry and sunny weather around but also a cluster of heavy showers. Tonight, it looks like it stays cloudy across the south west, one or two showers here, generally clear skies elsewhere but we see low pressure start to push into the north and west of scotland, so that will be increasing showers here by the end of the night. Temperatures for most down to three degrees, quite chilly in east anglia under clear skies. Pressure charts on sunday, area of low pressure here, that where the front bringing showers and cool air to much of scotland, particularly the northern half of scotland through the day. Some of the showers from the word go across the north west will move their way eastwards, some could be on the heavy side and for england and wales, although there was quite and wales, although there was quite a bit of sunshine around, they could be some thundery showers through central areas towards wales. Colour in the north with temperatures in the low teens but a fairly warm day across the south and south east. It is cooler in the north, starting to import some air down from the artic and its like northerly winds will have a north south divide as we head into monday. This is the divide, this band of cloud with a few showers on it, warmth again to the south, one or two showers and across scotla nd south, one or two showers and across scotland there will be a cluster of showers. It will feel noticeably cooler temperatures here ten to 30 degrees. But it could make 19 or 20 degrees. But it could make 19 or 20 degrees in the south east. As we move out of monday into tuesday, we actually see low pressure move up from the south and this could give some significant rain particularly to england and wales, perhaps the most significant rainfall of the month so far. Some of it can be quite heavy as it moves north, could brighten up across the south into the afternoon but that could start off some thundery showers. Much of ireland and scotland should be dry. Sunny spells, call in the north, mild in the south. Remains unsettled from wednesday onwards with further sunshine and showers but not feeling as warm as it has done lately. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. A further 711 people with coronavirus have died in hospitals in england, taking the total number of hospital deaths in the uk to over 20,000. Coronavirus tests for uk key workers through the government website were booked up within an hour of it reopening this morning. All home testing kits were ordered in less than 15 minutes. The World Health Organization says people who have recovered from coronavirus may not be protected from reinfection. Countries around europe pursue options to end the lockdown belgium sets out a detailed plan to relax restrictions. Meanwhile a former uk chancellor calls on the government to set out how britain can ease its lockdown and restart the economy