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Sportshour: Sione's Miracle Kidney Transplant

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Sione's Kidney Failure – The next chapter

05/05/2018 GMT

Sione's Miracle Kidney Transplant

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Tonga rugby star Sione Vaiomoʻunga has had the kidney transplant that seemed impossible

Tonga rugby star Sione Vaiomoʻunga has had the kidney transplant that seemed impossible.

In January, the Tongan rugby union player Sione Vaiomoʻunga told Sportshour how, after moving to Romania to play rugby there, he became stranded in the country, after suffering kidney failure. With no dialysis machines in his native Tonga, Sione believed returning home would be a death sentence, so Sione and his family were hoping to remain in Romania. But their visas were due to run out. Dan Leo, founder of the Pacific Rugby Players Welfare organisation, brings us a happy update.

As the Giro D'Italia gets underway in Jersusalem we hear from the country's top riders, those who welcome the arrival of the race and those who oppose it.

On the day the Women's FA Cup final takes place, the former New Zealand international Donna Baker - one of the first players to appear in the final - recalls her experiences of playing in the 1994 final.

Could we soon see a Formula 1 star who honed his skills at a computer screen or gaming console? We explore the growth of e-Sports.

India won 26 gold medals at the recent Commonwealth Games - a record for a country that normally struggles at major sporting events. That has led to calls for the Government to invest more in its sporting infrastructure. But in a country that is home to almost a third of the world’s poor, should sport be a priority?  Rahul Tandon reports from Kolkata. 

This year’s Giro d’Italia cycling race will pay tribute to the great Italian rider, Gino Bartali, when its opening stages are held in Israel this weekend. Bartali was one of the most successful cyclists of the 1930s and 1940s, but it is now also known that he helped saved the lives of hundreds of Jews when the Nazis occupied Italy during World War Two. Alice Gioia talks to Gino's granddaughter, Gioia, and the film-maker Oren Jacoby, who has researched the rider’s wartime heroism.

(Photo: Sione Vaiomoʻunga. Credit: Getty Images)

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