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Sportshour: Diving in and facing your fears

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21/01/2023 GMT

Diving in and facing your fears

BBC World Service - Sportshour, Diving in and facing your fears

World champion high diver Lysanne Richard on over coming fear and jumping from 27 metres

Warning! If you are not good with heights, look away now. Canada's Lysanne Richard is one of the best high divers in the world. The former World Champion excels at throwing herself from extraordinary heights, and as she plummets from the tops of cliffs she can reach speeds in excess of 75 kilometres per hour... So how does she overcome fear and exactly how high is high diving? 

The city of Liverpool has a reputation for producing the very best in British culture and sport, from the Beatles to Anfield to Everton and beyond... but recently the city has been blighted by gun crime including the murder of several innocent people, mostly women. Now an initiative called 'Weapons Down Gloves Up is encouraging the community to come together and use boxing to reduce violence on the streets. One of those involved is UFC fighter Molly 'Meatball' McCann, a proud Liverpudlian 

Is it possible to combine high quality motor racing, scintillating battles around some of the most far flung corners of the earth alongside a desire to help the planet? Well that's what "Extreme E" is trying to do. The Motor sport championship sees electric SUVs competing in extreme surroundings already affected by environmental issues, highlighting the damaging effects of climate change around the world. However does it's green credentials get in the way? Not according to Extreme E Founder and CEO, Alejandro Agag.

Footballer Millie Farrow first tore her anterior cruciate ligament aged just 15. It happened a year after she was diagnosed with the mental health condition Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. The chances of her fulfilling her dream of becoming a professional footballer were slim, to none... but Fast forward 10 years or so and Mille has some how managed to over come several more physical injuries and also learned how to live successfully with her OCD... something she has detailed in her new book "Brave Enough Not to Quit: How I Realised My Football Dream" So, all in all quite a lot for anyone who is only 26 years old!

PHOTO: Lysanne Richard of Canada dives from a rock cliff prior to the third stop of the Red Bull Cliff Diving World Series on May 29, 2019 at Polignano a Mare, Italy. (CREDIT: Dean Treml/Red Bull via Getty Images)

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