England's adaptive cheerleading champions chasing gold in Florida

England's adaptive cheerleading team have their sights set on a third gold medal [Team England AA Management] Every year, teams from across the globe head to Florida to compete in the ICU World Cheerleading Championships. And one aiming for the "three-peat" - that's three back-to-back gold medals - is the Team England Adaptive Abilities Advanced team. Adaptive Abilities, or AA, is a category where cheerleaders with and without disabilities compete side-by-side.

Routines are made up of familiar stunts, jumps, gymnastic tumbles and classic cheer chants, but modified to account for the needs of teammates. Participation is growing. All major UK competitions now offer contests for AA teams, and Wales and Scotland are also fielding teams at the world championships.

Harrison Phipps says the AA category provides visibility for competitors with disabilities [BBC] Harrison Phipps, 23, who has severe to profound hearing loss in both ears, is helped by an observer off the mat. They'll give counts via a microphone linked to his hearing aids, allowing him to keep time with the rest of the team. "Quite a lot of the time I'm lost in training…" he tells BBC Newsbeat.

"And it's just because I haven't heard what the plan is. So I often find that my group's the one that isn't hitting that first time. " "I find a lot of teams will have disabled athletes on it, but not be in a disabled category.