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Sportshour: Joseph Parker: The heavyweight isolation sensation

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Joseph Parker: The heavyweight isolation sensation

04/04/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Joseph Parker: The heavyweight isolation sensation

Heavyweight boxer Joseph Parker discusses the success of his social media videos

Former heavyweight world boxing champion Joseph Parker joined us from his home in New Zealand to discuss the success of his social media videos.

How is horse racing coping amidst the coronavirus pandemic? On Saturday Tiger Roll should have been aiming to win a third Grand National in a row but the race was called off last month. The BBC's racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght and the Grand National winning trainer Lucinda Russell joined us to share their feelings on the morning the race should have gone ahead and to discuss how the sport is coping in the absence of racing.

Travails on the Tennis Tour: In the week that Wimbledon was cancelled for the first time since the second world war we spoke to world number 375 Sofia Shapatava about the realities of life below the elite level. She tells us lower ranked players are struggling to pay their rent and essential bills and how she has started a petition asking the sport's authorities to provide players with financial support. 

From carrying clubs to carrying parcels: European tour Caddie Oliver Briggs is stranded at his parents house in England due to the coronavirus lockdown. He told us about missing life on the golf circuit, how he's taken a job as a part time delivery driver and his fears that if golf doesn't return soon some caddies will have to leave the sport for good.

From Iron Bars to Iron Man: John McAvoy was sentenced to life in prison at the age of 24 for armed robbery. In prison, he turned his life around, to the point where he broke two world records for indoor rowing. Since gaining his freedom he's become a professional sportsman, taking on the Iron Man Triathlon series and through his foundation he’s spoken to thousands of young people, using his story of rehabilitation to change lives for the better.

Lockdown singalong: Former Heavyweight world boxing champion Joseph Parker joined us from his home in New Zealand to discuss the success of his social media videos. His version of "build me up buttercup" features Tyson Fury and Michael Buffer and his latest effort is a spoof of the theme tune to popular soap opera "Neighbours".

Sporting Witness: This week we went back to 1991 and a moment that stunned the world of professional rodeo when Jonathon Holloway hit the first ever perfect score of 100 points.

Picture: Joseph Parker during a press conference, at Canary Riverside Plaza Hotel, ahead of his Heavyweight contest with Dillian Whyte. (Getty Images)

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