I was working in a coffee shop in Boston to help pay rent while I was training for the trials

and so people kept joking. They were like, oh yeah, she just took a two-hour coffee break

and went and ran the Olympic trials bare with that.

On the podium is back with more Olympians and Paralympians sharing their journeys to the top.

On the podium from the BBC World Service, listen now wherever you get your BBC podcasts.

This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Janet Gillil and in the early hours of Friday, the 18th of August, these are our main stories.

US officials investigate allegations of threats to intimidate people involved in former President

Donald Trump's election interference case in Georgia. Dozens of migrants mainly from Senegal

are feared to have died after their boat was found drifting near Cape Verde off the coast of West

Africa. Britain invites the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to visit

outraging human rights groups. Also in this podcast,

the musician now Rogers accuses a far-right political party in Switzerland of stealing his hit song

We Are Family.

Officials in the US state of Georgia are investigating online threats against members of the public

who voted to indict the former US President Donald Trump this week as part of a grand jury.

Amid a rise in violent rhetoric by Trump supporters, the Georgia grand jurors aren't the only ones

to be targeted. A woman in Texas has been charged for threatening to kill a judge overseeing another

case against Mr. Trump. And last week, FBI agents killed a man in Utah who'd reportedly made

death threats against President Joe Biden. I got more from our US correspondent Anthony Zürker.

The Georgia law enforcement is investigating threats made against members of the grand jury

that indicted Donald Trump on Monday. These threats have been posted in right-wing message boards

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