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Transcripts For BBCNEWS Sportsday 20240606

hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening. 33 has become 26 harry maguire and jack grealish among those who miss out on england s squad for euro 202a. in the end it wasn t as close as some of the decisions it helps to give. var will stay in the premier league, whose clubs vote overwhelmingly to back it. another step towards three in a row. iga swiatek makes the final of the french open, where she ll playjasmine paolini. also coming up on sportsday. britain s best weightlifter will be team gb s only weightlifter in paris, but emily campbell wants another olympic medal. and we hearfrom the england rugby player who claims her career wouldn t have been the same without breast reduction surgery. losing two kilograms off of your chest does make a difference, i have to say. my first round after surgery six weeks after i felt like a new person. and then there were 26. gareth southgate had until the end of tomorrow to name his final squad for the

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26 man squad for germany. good evening from normandy where world leaders havejoined some of the last remaining veterans to mark the 80th anniversary of the d day landings. at the british normandy memorial this morning, a service of commemoration attended by more than a0 british veterans overlooking one of the beaches where allied troops first came ashore on 6thjune 191m british, american, canadian and french troops landed along this coastline on beaches that were named sword, juno, gold, omaha and utah more than 150,000 men fought in the d day landings. it was the largest ever seaborne invasion. there ve been events right along this coastline and this afternoon at omaha beach an international event attended by the us president and ukraine s president zelensky. our first report comes from our correspondent daniela relph. bagpipes. memories fade. the living testimonies dwindle. but at dawn today, on the beaches of normandy, they remembered. making their own 80th anniversary n

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overlooking one of the beaches where allied troops first came ashore onjune 6th, 1944. never before or since have so many troops from so many nations landed by sea to liberate an occupied country. the british, american, canadian, and french troops landed on five beaches sword, juno, gold, omaha and utah as the airborne troops dropped behind enemy lines to secure the roads and bridges. 156,000 troops overwhelming the germans they had taken by surprise. the main event this afternoon was at omaha beach, where heads of state stood alongside the veterans to pay tribute and remember. more on that in a moment but first, our correspondent daniela relph takes a look back at all the day s events in the company of some of the british veterans who were there to see it. bagpipes memories fade. the living testimonies dwindle. but at dawn today, on the beaches of normandy, they remembered. making their own 80th anniversary normandy landing, a group of royal marines, wading ashore as t

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music: i vow to thee, my country our gratitude is unfailing and our admiration eternal. one of the things you might not know about this memorial is it owes its existence in great part to the initiative of our former royal correspondent, nicholas witchel, who in 2014, while reporting at the cenotaph here in london, met the late d day veteran, george batts. a year later, george got in touch with him to point out that the uk alone among the allied nations did not have its own d date memorial near the landing beaches, so nick set up the landing beaches, so nick set up the normandy memorial trust, getting together people who could help realise george s dream that had eluded him in other normandy veterans. so it s nice to see that it s played such a prominent role in today s commemorations. a tribute to

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