mcdaid has more. as britain plasma top amateur heavyweight coheres used to taking blows. not even the grim reaper can keep him down. you know when people say yol0, i don't believe that. keep him down. you know when people say yolo, i don't believe that. he has already come back from the dead not once but twice. those spices with death came aged eight and 18. the first when he fell onto a metal spike and the second when his appendix burst. the doctor said to my mumi appendix burst. the doctor said to my mum i am appendix burst. the doctor said to my mumiama appendix burst. the doctor said to my mum i am a very lucky young man. during the operation i've outlined on the table. i came back to life. i don't know. sometimes i look back and thinki don't know. sometimes i look back and think i have come a long way. then i'd just brush it off. that is yesterday. it cannot believe in yesterday. it cannot believe in yesterday. he may be keen to downplay his past but back at home in gravesend his friends feel his

lizzie talking to david mcdaid. from double olympic silver medallist to star baker — becky james told everyone about her retirement from track cycling on social media yesterday. but today she's explained why she's opted to retire at the age of 25 and swap life in the velodrome for a career in the kitchen. i have always baked but when i moved to manchester in 2010 i had a lot of free weekends so i started baking a lot more and will take my cakes to the track on monday and given to the mechanics and coaches and all of the staff and they seemed to go down really well. i really enjoyed of having the praise from everyone saying they enjoy the cakes and i started doing more and more and i was asked to do a friend's wedding ca ke was asked to do a friend's wedding cake in 2015 and i was asked to do a couple more wedding cakes and it evolved from there. that is all from sportsday. there will be more sport here on bbc news throughout the evening. this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall. the headlines at 7pm: the legendary en