Sportshour

When the 38 runners and riders gather at the starting line at Aintree, it will be a Grand National like no other seen in the past 30 years. For the first time since 1988, three female jockeys will be in their number. We speak to the first ever female rider to take part in the race in 1977, Charlotte Budd now known as Brew on her memories of that iconic race and how the sport is now heading in the right direction with gender equality.Australian weightlifter Tia Clare Toomey was asked whether she wanted to withdraw from the Commonwealth Games, just a week on after tragically losing her cousin in a car crash. Tia Clare wanted to compete and make her cousin proud. Her cousin Jade was meant to be in the stands cheering her on. Tia went on to lift her personal best 114kg in the clean and jerk to win gold in her home Games. She was also declared the Fittest Woman on Earth last year, when she won the 2017 CrossFit Games. She tells Shari how she has coped with the tragic loss and using it as an inspiration to become