Becky and Ellie Downie head to Rio after send-off party

Gymnast sisters Becky and Ellie Downie are heading to the Rio Olympics following a send-off party thrown by the club where their careers began.

Becky, 24, and Ellie, 17, started training in Nottingham when they were aged just three and eight years old.

Friends, family and former teammates all turned out at the Notts Gymnastics Academy to wish them luck.