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tv   Sportsday  BBC News  July 29, 2024 12:45am-1:01am BST

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day two at the olympic games in paris. we'll start with tennis after the most extraordinary comeback in the men's doubles by great britain's andy murray and his partner dan evans. remember, this is the last competitive outing by murray — the three time grand slam winner will retire after the olympics and it's the only event he is taking part in. after sharing the first two sets against the japanese pair kei nishikori and taro daniel, the match would be decided on a ten point tie—break. murray and evans saved five match points, and won seven points in a row to take the match at the first opportunity. murray's retirement is on hold. in the moment, when we finished the match and we both were just laughing, having to celebrate of a match win like that since maybe the one in australia. but
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what an amazing feeling. rafael nadal will face his great rival novak djokovic for the 60th time in the second round of the singles after beating the hungarian marton fucsovics. it went to a decider where he had too much for fucsovics, breaking in the fifth game and sealing the match 6—4 to set up that clash against djokovic, who beat matt ebden of australia on saturday. great britain's adam peaty was bidding tojoin michael phelps in the record books, in winning an olympic swimming gold in the same event at three straight olympics, but fell just short in the 100 metres breastroke. he took silver behind italy's nicolo martinenghi. having claimed gold in both rio and tokyo, peaty, who holds the world record, missed out by two hundreths of a second. america's nick fink posted the same time as peaty and shared silver. china's oin haiyang, the fastest in the world this year, was back in seventh. one of the games' poster boys, leon marchand, ended france's 12—year
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wait for swimming gold with a superb performance in the aoom individual medley. the 22—year—old surged to victory in an olympic record, just shy of his own world record, finishing almost six seconds clear of japan's matsushita tomoyuki. usa's carson foster took bronze. pauline ferrand—prevot won the first gold of the day for the hosts. she romped to victory in the cross country mountain bike, finishing almost three minutes clear of usa's haley batten. the swede jenny rissveds was third. lebronjames inspired the usa as they began the defence of their olympic basketball crown with victory over nikola jokic�*s serbia. appearing in his fourth olympics, lebron finished with 21 points, seven rebounds and nine assists. he was ably supported by kevin durant who scored 23 points off the bench. two—time most valuable player in the nba, jokic scored 20 points for serbia but he was unable to prevent them slumping to a big defeat, 110 to sa.
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france won their first match in the men's basketball on saturday, edging out brazil as nba rookie sensation victor wembanyama made his much—awaited olympic debut. former france international and four—time nba champion, tony parker says he hopes they make it to the final and face the usa. i think the basketball tournament will be very tough, you really have some great teams. obviously usa is the favourite, then you have france, health canada, serbia, germany, who won the last world championship so it's good to be a very high level. if i had to guess, my dream would be usa against france, but i really like serbia, i think serbia and canada are very, very good teams and i think they have a great chance to be in the finals. i think everybody is excited to see a vector with the french national team, he had an unbelievable rookie season and hopefully he can
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translate that in the european game. he played when he was young, he played a lot with the national team so i think is used to the european style, hopefully we can carry it all the way to the finals. george russell took the chequered flag at the belgian grand prix, but was disqualified two and a half hours later after his car was found to be underweight. his mercedes team—mate lewis hamilton was then given the win. russell had the perfect race with a brilliant one—stop strategy as he saw off hamilton to secure his second win of the season and mercedes' third in four races. russell's car was initially weighed at 798kg, exactly on the minimum weight limit, but stewards found the car hadn't been fully drained of fuel, and when it was, its weight was 1.5 kilograms under the limit. so after george russell's disqualification, all the other drivers move up a place. hamilton the winner — he's the only driver aside from max verstappen to have won more than one race this season. mclaren driver oscar piastri moves up to second and ferrari's charles leclerc, who started from pole,
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completes the top three. verstappen�*s fourth place gives him a 78 point lead in the championship ahead of lando norris, who was fifth. after the race, russell took to social media. posting on x he said: hamilton, after securing a record—extending 105th grand prix win, said: england's cricketers have completed a 3—0 series win over west indies. it was another one—sided match at edgbaston, england winning by ten wickets chasing 82 to win on day three. captain ben stokes, who opened for the injured zak crawley, hit the fastest test half—century by an englishman, off just 2a balls.
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earlier, mark wood took five wickets after lunch in the space ofjust six overs as windies were bowled out for 175, leaving england with that very meagre target to chase down inside three days. one of the most impressive things to take away from me as captain about how the team has responded to queries we have been put under pressure, because it has been more than a handful of times where the west indies have fought back in every test, i don't think we should get lost in this about where we were in the game, west indies got to 280 and we were 50-5 indies got to 280 and we were 50—5 so to end up getting the lead of 90 to then be on day three with a win come i don't think we should underestimate this win whatsoever. i thought the boys were outstanding, it wasn't always one-way _ outstanding, it wasn't always one—way traffic and while the scoreline did 3—0 we were tested _ scoreline did 3—0 we were tested on numerous occasions.
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and we — tested on numerous occasions. and we are _ tested on numerous occasions. and we are really pleased and i think_ and we are really pleased and i think it — and we are really pleased and i think it shows our progression of where — think it shows our progression of where we were recently to where — of where we were recently to where we _ of where we were recently to where we are now, and it's nice to be _ where we are now, and it's nice to be able — where we are now, and it's nice to be able to introduce some new— to be able to introduce some new guys— to be able to introduce some new guys who look like they are set for — new guys who look like they are set for international cricket. fire wickets for man of the match mark wood in a single session. he reveals what changed at lunchtime before that lethal spell. quite relieved at the end to just get some rest, i was focusing too much of the outcome, thinking why is it not happening? what i doing wrong? but we had a quick chat at lunchtime withjimmy anderson lunchtime with jimmy anderson who lunchtime withjimmy anderson who taught me a lot about skill and the reverse swing ball and how i could go about my business. iforgot how i could go about my business. i forgot about that other stuff and it was a big belief is a big confidence boost to get the first wicket and once i got that, just bold and once i got that, just bold and itjust flowed a lot easier. to football, where tottenham have reached an agreement to sign korean teenager yang min—hyeok from k league i side
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gangwon fc, subject to work permit and international clearance. the 18—year—old has signed a deal until 2030 and willjoin spurs injanuary 2025. meanwhile, liverpool have rejected a bid worth ia million euros from marseille for midfielder wataru endo and are aware of further interest in the japan international from german clubs. the japanese international, who is in america on preseason tour with liverpool, joined the club from stuttgart last august. manny pacquiao says he wants a "realfight" after a draw with a japanese mma fighter in an exhibition bout. former world champion pacquiao, who is now a5, fought 28—year—old rukiya anpo for three rounds under strict boxing rules. pacquiao, who retired three years ago, called it a "good tune—up", as he prepares to make his boxing comeback later this year. my my future plan, might fight again ina my future plan, might fight again in a realfight my future plan, might fight again in a real fight this year. this is a good tune up
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for me, to come back in boxing. and i realised a lot of things to develop more and to work on. just time to take a quick look at the medal table from the paris olympics. and it's japan who lead the way with four golds, two silvers and a bronze, which just edges them ahead of australia in second. the united states are third with three golds, but 12 medals so far, more than any other nation, while hosts france have collected eight medals, three of which are gold. olympic powerhouse china currently sit sixth. great britain still waiting for the first gold, they lie 13th. 19 more golds to be won on monday. you can get all the latest sports news from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website. lots of reaction to day two of the games. i will be back with
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another update in the next hour. untilthen, goodbye. hello there. sunday was a very warm day. we had the sunshine far and wide, and we've got a few more days of dry weather and sunshine to come, but the heat is going to continue to build across england and wales. and, really, across the whole of western europe, temperatures are rising, the heat is pushing up from spain into france and for the olympics. that's the temperature anomaly chart. you can see for eastern europe, things may be a little cooler than normal. here at home, though, the heat is building underneath that area of high pressure. there is a weak weather front approaching from the north—west, and that's bringing more cloud into scotland and northern ireland on monday. the odd light shower, perhaps, but most of any rain really is in the far north—west of scotland.
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the cloud will break in other parts of scotland, but the best of the sunshine will be for england and wales. just a bit of patchy fair—weather cumulus. the winds will be light in england and wales. there will be some cooling sea breezes. there is a stronger breeze, though, blowing for scotland and northern ireland, where temperatures aren't changing much. it's still going to be warm for eastern scotland, but the heat is really concentrated on england and wales. inland temperatures in the south—east, 28 or 29 degrees. that weather front continues to weaken as it moves down into the high pressure overnight and into tuesday. just that sliver of cloud there. more sunshine to come for scotland and northern ireland on tuesday, the odd light shower in the far north—west. sunny skies on the whole for england and wales, a little bit hazy at times. and those temperatures continuing to rise, particularly towards the south—east of england, could make 31 or even 32 degrees here. quite different temperatures for scotland and northern ireland, and you can see the temperature difference overnight tuesday night into wednesday morning — an uncomfortable night for sleeping in the south—east, particularly in london. there's more sunshine
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and generally dry weather to come on wednesday. signs of one or two showers breaking out, particularly towards the south—west of england. this could be the first signs of some change. but ahead of that, it's still going to be a hot day through the midlands and the south—east. temperatures, 29, 30 degrees quite possible once again. things are changing, though, wednesday and through the rest of the week in particular, its not going to be quite as warm. there's the chance of more cloud and some rain, which could be heavy and thundery. on wednesday night and through thursday, that moves its way northwards. and then after we start the week with high pressure, we're going to end the week with low pressure in the west.
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welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm arunoday mukharji. lets get you the headlines: thousands attend funerals for the 12 children killed by a rocket strike in the golan heights. the white house says hezbollah is responsible for the attack. polls have closed in a crucial presidential election in venezuela, as president nicolas maduro seeks a third term in office. and this is the scene in the capital caracas, where preparations are under way amid fear of post election violence
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on day 2 of the olympics, italy and france sweep up golds in swimming and britain's andy murray triumphs in his tennis doubles opener. and robert downeer announces his return to the marvel cinematic universe to play the supervillain doctor doom. you're watching bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. israel's security cabinet has given prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his defence minister the authority to decide on the scale and timing of israel's response to saturday's deadly rocket attack in the israeli—occupied golan heights. earlier, funerals were held for some of the 12 young people
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killed when a rocket hit a football pitch in a town

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