Gabby Logan's heart screening call for brother Daniel

The "catastrophic" impact of losing her little brother is why presenter Gabby Logan is ing calls for all young athletes to undergo heart screening.

Daniel Yorath was having a kickabout with dad Terry, the former Wales and Leeds footballer, in their back garden in 1992 when he collapsed and died.

No-one knew why his heart stopped, weeks after g for Leeds and just before his 16th birthday.

"He was so fit, so strong, never ill, there were no signs at all," Gabby said.

"I couldn't get my head around the idea that his heart had failed him."

A post-mortem examination revealed Daniel had a disease called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, in which the heart muscle becomes abnormally thick, making it harder for the heart to pump blood.

"I didn't know young people could die that way," Gabby told BBC Wales Live.

Life for the family has never been the same.

Her parents split up and still now, 30 years on, Gabby its she still gets overcome by the emotion of those painful memories.

That is why Gabby s heart-screening for young athletes who play regularly at a high level in a bid to reduce the risk of unknown heart conditions.

"It would help families to not have to go through what we have gone through," the BBC television presenter said.

In the early 1990s, scans were not routinely given to aspiring sports people such as her brother and so his condition went undetected.

"His life had so much going for it," said Gabby.

"He was about to play for Leeds United who had won the old First Division the year before. They were the top team in the country. It was like a young boy now playing for Manchester City or Liverpool.

"So there was bitterness and anger and 'why do we not know this? How can we make sure this never happens again to anybody else":[]}