Howdy Cowboy!
$2,000,000 in prize money, cowboy hats as far as the eye can see and a sport that has more than a touch of the Wild West... Welcome to what's known as "The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth" Caroline Rigby travels to Alberta, Canada to discover if rodeo at Calgary Stampede is a celebration of athletic endeavour and cultural heritage or outdated and cruel to animals Beyond Boxing Ahead of defending his Lightweight belt this weekend against Anthony Crolla, Colombian Darley Perez tells the BBC’s Azi Farni how boxing saved him. Perez grew up with a normal life until war started between the military and the rebels. His town was taken over by the paramilitaries and eventually, with few options, the friends he grew up with joined the paramilitaries. Many, including his brother, met with a violent death. Boxing became a way out for him. Being Fran Whether the Women’s World Cup was a “watershed moment” for women’s football is still to be seen. What is certain is that it has changed the life’s of some of the players, none more so than Fran Kirby. She became the most expensive British transfer when she signed for Chelsea this week. Caroline Barker has been to meet her and hear how her world Cup goal was a bitter sweet moment. Special Olympics The Special Olympics and World Games, an international sporting competition for athletes with intellectual disabilities, is set for some Hollywood glamour when it opens next week in Los Angeles. Explaining how is Tim Morehouse who won silver for the USA in fencing at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and is now Goodwill ambassador for the Games. Founded in 1968, the Special Olympics movement has grown to more than 4.5 million athletes from 170 countries. Elementary Watson Tom Watson first played in the Open in 1975, won it five times and remarkably came close to a sixth as a sixty year old in 2009. This week he tees off for the final time, and what better place to do it than at St Andrews recognised the world over as the home of golf. Watson has been reminiscing with the BBC's Alex South. Maasai Mission Cricketer Jimmy Anderson has taken time out from trying to beat the Australians in the Ashes to help produce a film dedicated to the extraordinary role cricket is playing in educating the Maasai tribes of Kenya. Sporting Witness… In 1998, the world of cycling was rocked by the discovery of a stash of drugs in the car of a trainer for the Festina cycling team - just days before the Tour de France. The find triggered a chain of events which finally exposed the extent of doping in the sport. Sporting Witness talks to Christophe Basson, one of the only cyclists on the Festina team who DIDN’T take drugs. Photo: Calgary Stampede: Sterling Crawley (104) in action aboard Evening Mist during Saddle Bronc Round 3 at Stampede Park 2014 (CREDIT: Darren Carroll /Sports Illustrated/Getty Images)