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Jonas Gutierrez has been speaking to Sportshour after an employment tribunal found he was dropped by Newcastle United because of his cancer diagnosis. He told Caroline Barker some of his former-team mates called to congratulate him after the verdict. The 32-year-old was suing the Magpies for about $3,000,000 on the grounds of disability discrimination. The tribunal also ruled the club made it impossible for Gutierrez to trigger an appearance-based contract extension. Newcastle say they are "dismayed" by the judgement and are considering further options with their legal team. Claims of unfavorable treatment and another of harassment related to disability were dismissed.

Kobe Calling:
We bid farewell to one of basketballs finest by finding out what it was like to play with the great man. Vladimir Radmanović says it was tough to turn down Kobe Bryant when the NBA legend asked him to become a team-mate at the LA Lakers. Now retired he 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".

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… 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: We are in Rio:
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’ time? We hear from Mario Andrada member of the 2016 Organising committee

Sporting Witness… 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’s 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: Jonas Gutierrez in action for Newcastle United. Credit: Getty Images