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Vladimir Radmanovi膰 says it was tough to turn down Kobe Bryant when the NBA legend asked him to become a team-mate at the LA Lakers.

The retired Serbian professional also plans to take on Bryant in a one-on-one contest, but only in a couple of years when the 37-year-old American, who retires this week, is "older and fatter".

And you are鈥�?
As part of the World Service鈥檚 鈥淚dentity鈥� season we've been looking at the significance of identity on and off the sports field. Whether you are a fan or a player, many define themselves in terms of sport or a club.

Who Am I?!
What happens when your identity is taken away from you? Claire Hanna knows. She was a long standing member of the Canadian Women's National Volleyball team but when her career ended suddenly she was left asking 鈥淲ho am I? I felt really weird. It felt like I was walking into a different world. I went to my car, and drove the same route I鈥檇 driven home hundreds of times, but I felt alienated from it.鈥�

Who Are Ya?!
GB Paralympic Sport Psychologist Rebecca Symes explores the reasons behind why so many people chose to identify themselves primarily in the context of the team they support.

Rally Car Reality:
As the World Rallycross Championship season begins we hear from the one of the drivers who thinks he might just have the edge this season鈥� and it's all down to playing computer games! Britain's Liam Doran has already won rally car gold at the X-Games and tells us future success might be down to his games console.

Rio Ready?
Brazil's president Dilma Rousseff is facing impeachment in the national Congress and uncertainty surrounds the very highest offices in Brazilian government. So could the political unrest present problems for the Olympics which start in the country in just over 3 months鈥� time? We hear from Mario Andrada member of the 2016 Organising committee.

Sporting Witness鈥� Shaul Ladany is a long-distance Israeli race-walker who set world records that stand to this day. But, even more remarkably, he survived a childhood in the Belsen concentration camp and then the terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the Munich Olympics in 1972. More recently, he鈥檚 seen off cancer and a quadruple heart-bypass, still finding the energy to walk 80 kilometres on his 80th birthday earlier this month. We joined him..

Photo: Vladimir Radmanovic with Kobe Bryant. Credit: Lisa Blumenfeld/Getty Images.

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