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Commonwealth Games: 'I wanted to show the whole world that Britain's got talent'

It's six months today since the closing ceremony of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

An estimated 5 million people came to the city during the two weeks go the games, 1.5 million of them had tickets for the sporting action.

Today we're talking about the legacy that has been left by the biggest event the city has ever held and we are at the Pat Benson Boxing Academy in Digbeth, which benefited from some of the sports kit which was donated at the end of the games.

Rakeem Omar spoke to Orlan Jackson who was part of Team England's Gold Medal Winning 3 x 3 basketball squad at the games.

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