Sportshour

The Olympic Nightmare

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The death of the 10 year old Eduardo de Jesus is being seen as a watershed moment in the way Rio’s favelas are policed after an officer was charged in connection with his death. Alex Capstick has been speaking to Eduardo’s mother Terezinha Maria de Jesus about this recent development. With Rio 2016 just months away, she says the methods used by police to clean up favelas is coming at too high a price.Baseball’s Barry Bonds on a Bike Baseball's all-time home run scorer Barry Bonds is a controversial name in the sport. He was once convicted of perjury - based on testimony he gave during the investigation into BALCO performance enhancing drugs scandal. Earlier this year, the one remaining charge against him was dropped on appeal. This week Bonds was given a coaching job at Miami Marlins, but he isn't just a one sport man. In his time away from baseball he invested in the Twenty16 Women's cycling team. We speak to the former world champion Mari Holden who is the team's sports director and Bond's partnerFury Furo