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Sara visited her GP after experiencing a strange tingling sensation in her face and tongue. Doctors then informed her that she had an 'aggressive' form of MS (multiple sclerosis), a degenerative disease for which there is no cure. Yesterday, in a brave revelation, Chris shared that he has 'just two to four years' left to live. Following the announcement, the family has received an outpouring of support from fellow athletes and celebrities.

Matthew Pinsent (left), 53, has waded into the controversy and said the IOC faces some 'major challenges' as it looks to move past the scandal. The gender row has overshadowed the games after two athletes, Algeria's Imane Khelif (right) and Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting, won gold in boxing despite failing a gender test and being kicked out of the Boxing World Championships last year. The sport's international governing body that made the ruling, the Russia-dominated International Boxing Association (IBA), was then stripped of the right to run the Paris Games competition over corruption and governance issues. But the row over the decision is believed to have played a considerable role in the decision by IOC president Thomas Bach to announce he will be resigning next year. Mr Pinsent said live on BBC Sport tonight: 'While Paris has been a huge success, there have been some very unfortunate headlines about boxing and the IOC in a sense asked for that because they stepped in and said we don't like the way boxing is being run we are going to make the rules for the Olympics and the inclusion of athletes boxing here.

Paris 2024 has gone by in a flash. Sunday marks the end of the festival of sport in the French capital after 16 days of drama. Day 15 brought another flurry of medals for Team GB , on the track and in the pool. In total, two silvers and four bronzes were won to take tally to 63 at these Games - one fewer than their haul in Tokyo. In this morning's Olympics Breakfast Briefing, Sir Steve Redgrave looks ahead to Team GB's final few medal opportunities to top their Tokyo tally.

IAN HERBERT: They were queuing in their thousands around the Trocadero Gardens on Wednesday afternoon, waiting without complaint in the heat of the Avenue de New York and the Palais de Chaillot perimeter, for the chance to be a part of the daily communal event which encapsulates why these have been the People's Olympics . It's called the Parade of Champions, a free, largely unreported part of each Olympic day, which has been drawing capacity crowds of 13,000 in the late afternoon to what is known as Champions Park, set against the backdrop of the Eiffel Tower. Most of those gathered on Wednesday in the ticketed seats or the 'pit' beside the walkway had not watched those champions compete, yet will now always be able to speak of how, in the Paris Olympic summer, they actually saw the great Brazilian gymnast Rebeca Andrade, France's 3x3 basketball team, and two British divers - Andrea Spendolini-Sirieix and Lois Toulson - who were clearly having the time of their lives.

In this morning's Olympics Breakfast Briefing, Sir Steve Redgrave looks ahead to a jam-packed day 15 with plenty of medal hopes for Team GB. Day 14 brought six more medals to Team GB's tally, with a gold hanging round the neck of teenage men's boulder and lead sensation Toby Roberts.

Team GB have enjoyed their best start to an Olympics in over a century and will look to extend that on day seven of the Paris Games. On Thursday, Team GB reached the 20th medal mark after success in the women's rowing four, in the women's double sculls and in the men's four.  There were no golds claimed, however, but they'll look to put that to an end with the plethora of events on Friday. 

SIR STEVE REDGRAVE: As they said afterwards, they probably left it a little bit too late. Let's face it, if they left it a second later, they would not have won. But now you can say they timed it to perfection! The Netherlands did not lose it, they did not fold, they kept their form, they stuck to their tactics. But our girls won it. They were absolutely incredible. It is so difficult to come from behind like that in rowing. You can't see the boat in front of you, you can only sense it.

In total 327 British athletes have crossed the Channel with hopes of Olympic glory across 26 sports. From Team GB House, Sir Steve Redgrave looks forward to those ambitions being acted on in earnest after years of preparation in an exclusive video with Mail Sport. The legendary rower, who won five gold medals at five consecutive Olympics, has named the athletes in action today who stand the best chance of ultimate success.

It's day two of the Christmas festivities, and with the excitement of the big day behind you, it's the perfect time to indulge in some family games in betwen the turkey sandwiches.