hello there. welcome along to sportsday with me, paul scott, here's what's coming up: the scene is set — with just a few hours to go before the open gets under way, who can tame the course at royal troon? chelsea begin disciplinary proceedings against enzo fernandez, after he shares a video allegedly containing a "racist and discriminatory" chant. and life withoutjimmy — england prepare for the second test against the west indies without their retired all—time leading wicket taker, james anderson.

hello there, walking along to the programme. we're just a few hours away from the 152nd open golf tournament. three—time champion tiger woods is among the afternoon starters and will play with fellow americans xander schauffele and patrick cantlay, teeing off at 13:37 gmt. world number one scottie scheffler is out at ten past two, with former champion jordan spieth and cameron young. rory mcilroy, who won the claretjug ten years ago, tees off at nine minutes past nine in the morning. our correspondent chris mclaughlin looks ahead to the tournament. in the ayrshire sunshine, practice — practice looking for perfection and hoping for history. this old course first held the open championship in 1923. golf runs through the very sand dunes in troon and it has done for a very long time. the world has changed, of course, since then, but this place remains the same — draws huge crowds

and the best the golfing game has to offer... ..including the man scotland hopes can become the first home—grown player to lift the claretjug since 1999. bob mcintyre, fresh from his scottish open win, has no expectations, but... it's possible. tomorrow, we'll start off from level par. i've got as much chance as everyone else in the field. same thursday last week. i had the same chance as everyone else and it was just about getting in that position on sunday and seeing where the cards fall. all the big names are here. it's golfing royalty at royal troon. you know, the course is in great shape, and obviously we've got an amazing field, as these major championships produce now. it's the only time, four times a year, that we get everyone back together, so, yeah, looking forward to the weekend.

a quarter of a million fans are expected over the coming four days. it's a championship that seems to get bigger every year, drawing crowds from far and near. where are you from? halifax, nova scotia — new scotland! perfect! are you enjoying "old scotland"? absolutely. been coming here for over 30 years to play golf and saw my first open in 2005. fabulous. it'sjust gorgeous. we've been over for a week — we're staying down— in rockcliffe, down| on the south coast. yes. and, yes, we're - driving around here. weather like this isjust - stunning, it certainly helps. so far, the week's been glorious weather—wise.| but it's great. it'sjust a really, really. lovely part of the world. i'm used to walking in anyway because i live here locally. so i walk along the beach and cross over, but it's great. it's such a good vibe and it's so buzzy in the town, so it's good. and in the midst of

the crowd, always practice. in this game, it doesn't come bigger than the open. troon awaits its latest winner. chris mclaughlin, bbc news. our reporter ben croucher has been at royal troon ahead of the first round and earlier sent us this. one little subplot to this week has been the subject of prize money. now, the open championship has increased its prize money. it's $17 million in total now. the winner takes home more than 3 million. but believe it or not, there are 28 tournaments in the men's game that pay more, so is the man who runs the open concerned? a, i didn't know 28. and b, i don't care. that's not what this is about. i think the whole thing... our responsibility for what we do and for what we run is to get that balance right and get the choices to ensure the game is thriving 50 years from now. that's the role of the r&a.

the honour of the first tee shot goes to the 1997 championjustin leonard — a course that's been kind to americans down the years and produced an all—time classic between henrik stenson and phil mickelson back in 2016. more of the same? yes, please! away from the golf... chelsea have begun disciplinary proceedings against argentine midfielder enzo fernandez after he posted a video on social media which the french football federation says included a "racist and discriminatory" chant. fernandez�*s chelsea team—mate wesley fofana describes the video as "uninhibited racism". fifa is also investigating, while chelsea say they here is what fernandez had to say...

fernandez�*s club chelsea also issued the following statement... the response has been as a consequence of the international repercussions. and it's been interesting. the argentine government, which i think you could see it as extreme right, doesn't like anything that could be put under the umbrella of woke. but from there, the undersecretary for sports,

he said, look, this has left our country looking very bad, and he's called on the team captain lionel messi and the president of the argentine fa to issue an apology. this has sparked a reaction. another politician from that ruling group, he put on social media — he deleted it quite quickly, but he put on social media — "no, there's no need to apologise, let them keep crying about a simple football song." and that attitude, which is quite widespread, that is where the problem lies. this man is closing in on the little bit of history, because tadej pogacar is four days away from completing an historic double. he's close to adding the tour de france title to the giro d'italia he won earlier this year — that hasn't been done since 1998. he extended his lead by another two seconds on stage 17, which was won from a breakaway group. ecuadorian rider richard carapaz got away from britain's simon yates to take the honours, while pogacar in the yellow jersey sprinted to take a little bit more time on defending champion jonas vingegaard — he now leads by three minutes, 11 seconds.

to cricket. england women have completed a 5—0 t20 series clean sweep against new zealand, after winning the fifth and final match at lords by 20 runs. england started poorly and were 87—6 at one point, but captain heather knight and charlie dean steadied the ship — knight top—scoring with 46 as they set the kiwis a target of 156 to win. lauren bell then shone with the ball, taking three wickets as england restricted the visitors to 135—8. a positive summer for england with the t20 world cup a few months away. england's men have been preparing for their second test against the west indies which gets under way in nottingham on thursday. they'll be without james anderson following his retirement after the victory in the first test, but captain ben stokes says he's still having a huge impact on the team. you can see the lads were, like, just drawn towards him and wanted to pick his brains about what he thinks, how he holds certain

deliveries and, yeah, i think it's been a very, very smooth transition. but there is no doubt there is still emotion withjimmy, because it's only been a week. but, yeah, i think with him still being around the team and knowing... and i think he knows that he's still got so much more to offer english cricket, in particular with the ball, and, yeah, i couldn't think of a better bloke to be able to pass on the knowledge of fast bowling to the guys we have at the moment. well, the windies have had to come to terms with that heavy defeat by an innings at lord's. despite losing inside three days, their team is unchanged, and their captain kraigg brathwaite is clear on where they need to improve. i think it's pretty simple, what we've got to do. we've got to bat better. obviously, we've got to find a way, which we had some discussions around, different things we can do better as a team.

there are still things with the bat. with the ball, as i said before, 50, 60 runs too many, but that was a positive to get ten wickets. but with the bat, we've just got to put runs on the board. it's simple. it's all about attitude, i think. we've got some young guys now that have a nice attitude, we've just got to remain, remain throughout success, through tough times. the first test, for example, easy to give in, give up, but we've got to keep believing, we've got to keep digging deep. you can of course follow all the build—up to second test on the build—up to second test on the bbc sport website and app. you will also find all the latest from the open which gets under way a few hours from now. but for myself, paul scott, any rest of the team here at the bbc sport centre. thank you very much for watching and we will see you next time.

hello there. well, temperatures were round about the seasonal average on wednesday — in the low 20s for most of us, plenty of strong july sunshine. and there's more of that to come over the next few days. in fact, it will be warming up — too hot for some, perhaps, particularly in the south east of england, but it's a brief, warm spell, with cooler conditions for all by sunday. and always cooler, always wetter in the north and the west — and that's certainly true overnight tonight. there'll be showery outbreaks of rain on this flow from northern ireland, up through western scotland. a few showers, too, for central, eastern areas of scotland, northwest england, and down through western wales. clear skies elsewhere, but also some mist patches developing into tomorrow morning. temperatures no lower than 14—16 celsius, so it's a mild start to thursday across the board. now on thursday, we'll still keep these showers across northern ireland and through western scotland. a few showers and cloudy conditions across many eastern areas of scotland, and through northern england, again, it's a cloudier day than on wednesday. we'll see lots of low cloud, some mist, too,

for these irish sea coasts, but plenty of sunshine for much of england and wales, and the temperatures will rise accordingly — 23—27 celsius. we're just starting to feed in this muggy feeling air, and it will feel humid on thursday night into friday — uncomfortable for sleeping. on friday, though, plenty more dry weather on offer. some rain moving into the western isles later — and again, it's rather cloudy and misty towards the western coasts here. but the sunshine just set to continue, and temperatures will rise into the mid—to—high—20s really quite widely, 29—30 celsius locally possible in east anglia or in southeast england perhaps. but the warm spell not set to last because we've got cooler—feeling conditions coming behind these weather fronts on saturday. now, we're likely to see some outbreaks of rain, some brightness developing behind for western scotland and northern ireland a little later on through the day. but some heavy, thundery downpours always possible just ahead of the front two, across east anglia and southeast england, and that will help to lower the temperature.

but you can see that temperatures are dipping as we head through saturday, and by the time we get to sunday, we're all into that fresher—feeling air. so, a drop in temperature from friday through to sunday. on sunday, still the threat of some heavy, possibly thundery downpours at times, also some sunny spells. and another dip in temperature into the start of next week. bye— bye.

i'm caitriona perry here in milwaukee, welcome to the bbc news special coverage of the republican national convention in milwaukee. where all eyes are onjd vance and his highly anticipated speech he will give tonight at the republican national convention. but first, we've learned in the last 90 minutes that presidentjoe biden has tested positive for covid—19, throwing his campaign into further question. he tested positive earlier in the day after an event in las vegas. he then cancelled a speech to a latino civil rights and advocacy group. the president is experiencing mild symptoms, including a cough and runny nose, according to his doctor. mr biden is vaccinated and tonight received a dose of the antiviral medication paxlovid.

in a statement, white house press secretary karine jean—pierre said: