our olympic sports reporter david mcdaid has more. as britain's top amateur heavyweight, cheavon clarke is used to taking blows but this is a man, it seems, not even the grim reaper can keep down. you know how people say yolo, i don't believe in that. yolo means you only live once but he has come back from the dead not once but twice, those dices with death came aged 18 and eight, the first when he fell onto a metal spike in the second when his appendix burst. the doctor said to my mum i am a lucky young man. they said during the operation i flat lined on the table. i came back to life, fair to say god didn't want me! i don't know, sometimes i look back and i think i've come a long way, but then, like, ijust brush it off because bass yesterday, you can't live on yesterday. cheav may be keen to downplay his past but back at home in graves and his friends feel his experiences have given him an edge. if that's happened to you, then you've gone through that and survived it twice and been clinically dead twice, i think your outlook on life

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

mcdaid has more. as britain's top amateur heavyweight, cheavon clarke is used to taking blows. but this is a man it seems not even the grim reaper can keep down. people say your mail and once, i don't believe in that. cheavon clarke has already come back from the dead not once but twice. those bases with beth came aged eight and those bases with beth came aged eightand 18, those bases with beth came aged eight and 18, the first when he fell onto a metal spike, the second when his attendance burst. the doctor said my mum i was a lucky young man, during the operation i flat lying on the table. came back to life, there to say god did not want to be! i don't know, i look and think i have come a long way sometimes but i brush it off because that is yesterday, cannot live in yesterday. he might be keen to downplay his past but back home in gravesend and his friends feel his experiences have given him an age. if that has happened to you, you have gone through that and survived it twice and been clinically de

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