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Sportshour: The Grand National: What are the Odds?

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09/04/2016 GMT

The Grand National: What are the Odds?

BBC World Service - Sportshour, The Grand National: What are the Odds?

We're at Aintree racecourse for the world’s most famous horse race, The Grand National.

We are on the course at Aintree in Liverpool ahead of the world’s most famous horse race, The Grand National. We speak to the Leighton Aspel who is looking to become the first ever jockey to win the race three years in a row. He is riding last years winner Many Clouds, who is hoping to become the first horse since Red Rum to win the Grand National in consecutive years.

The Man Who Taught Tricks to Neymar 
Andrew Henderson has not only got the skills to be a four time freestyle football world champion, he's even taught Barcelona and Brazil star Neymar a thing or two! For Andrew it's been a long road to freestyle fame, as a teenager he was told he might never walk again following a broken leg. We hear from Andrew and Liv Cooke, one of the leading female professionals, about a sport that is still developing. 

Bikes, Bumps and Broken Bones
This weekend sees the start of the British Superbike Championships. These specially modified production motorbikes are loud, fast and dangerous. A new documentary charting the thrills and spills of the sport has just been released, we speak to director Mark Sloper and one of its stars, racer James Ellison.

Palios to Return to the FA?
Could Nicola Palios follow her husband by becoming the Chair of the English Football Association? We ask her about her ambitions and she tells us why it was probably a good thing that a man was elected in the recent FIFA presidential elections.

What are the Odds?!
We are on the famous Aintree course hearing from Leighton Aspell, the man who is aiming to become the first jockey to win the Grand National three times in a row. His ride, Many Clouds is looking to become the first horse since Red Rum to win consecutive Nationals.

Green Tee 
The Masters are taking place in Augusta this weekend and one of golf's most prestigious tournaments comes with a rather unique prize... The converted green jacket!  So what's it like to put on one of sport’s most famous pieces of apparel?  South Africa's Trevor Immelman did just that in 2008 and reveals all.

Sporting Witness… heads back to the 1998, the Chess Olympiad, held at a new chess complex in a remote corner of southern Russia costing tens of millions of dollars.  Chess City was the brainchild of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, the controversial chess-obsessed president of the republic of Kalmykia, who is also president of FIDE, the International Chess Federation. The British grandmaster, Nigel Short, played at the tournament.


Photo: A bookmaker takes bets on the Grand National at Aintree racecourse in Liverpool, England. Credit: Alan Crowhurst/Getty Images

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