tv Sportsday BBC News August 4, 2024 7:30pm-8:01pm BST
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bricks and bottles have been thrown at police as far—right rallies turned violent in england. around 150 people have been arrested. the prime minister has described the violent disorder across the country as far right thuggery and vows to bring those involved to justice. i want you to know that this violent mob do not represent our country and we will bring them to justice. in other news, in bangladesh a nationwide curfew as more than 70 people, including fourteen police officers, are killed in anti—government protests. police have used tear gas and bullets to disperse the protest. and in the women's uneven bars algerian teenager kaylia nemour makes history, becoming the first african athlete to win an olympic gold medal in artistic gymnastics.
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now on bbc news, it's sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday this sunday night with me chetan pathak with the latest from the olympics and elsewhere. coming up on the programme... who will be the men's 100 metres 0lympic champion? we'll have the latest from paris with the final a little over an hour away. oh, so close but having to settle for silver. britain's tommy fleetwood just misses out on being 0lympic champion. and it's the same story for amber rutter in the shooting after a dramatic and controversial ending to the women's skeet. also coming up on sportsday before eight... golden moment — pure emotion from novak djokovic. after winning every other major title he is finally
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an olympic champion. so many emotions. i want to cry, laugh, jump, scream all at once. it is the best feeling i have ever had. and away from the games celtic make a winning start to the scottish premiership season. let's start with one of the blue—riband events of the olympics. not long now until the men's 100 metres final. in the last half an hour the line—up�*s been completed after the semi—finals. american superstar noah lyles has been talked up as the favourite but he's going to have to lift his level if he's to be olympic champion tonight. and what of the british hopefuls we were talking
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about in the last hour? dan roan is at the stade de france. iam going i am going to leave it to you to bring us up—to—date because it has all been happening in the last half an hour. it all been happening in the last half an hour. . , all been happening in the last half an hour. . . an hour. it has and the headline news is there _ an hour. it has and the headline news is there will _ an hour. it has and the headline news is there will be _ an hour. it has and the headline news is there will be no - an hour. it has and the headline news is there will be no british l news is there will be no british interest in the final of the men's 100 metres. those hopes lay with louis hinchliffe and zharnel hughes, but neither made it through their respective semifinals which have been taking place. three semifinals, the two fastest from each of them qualify for the final, plus the two next quickest sprinters. but neither of those gb sprinters were among those. in the first of the semifinals, which we show you now, noah liles, who was beaten by louis hinchliffe yesterday, he was beaten again by the jamaican. he not only one, he recorded a personal best.
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the jamaican has been backed up by usain bolt, that is the man he is tipping to win the final. you have to take that very seriously indeed. he looked very confident and relaxed in that win, so keep an eye out for him in the final which takes place in an hour and a half as much time. louis hinchliffe came in in third, 9.97 seconds, fractionally quicker than he recorded yesterday, and then he faced a nervous wait, the 22—year—old from sheffield. he beat lyle easily summers yesterday and had so much promise but he knew he had so much promise but he knew he had to rely on the other two semifinals going his way. sadly for him the second of those two plays and it was at that stage he realised he would not be contesting the final because in that second semifinal the south african one from botswana. the
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defending champion of italy, marcel jacobs, he produced a fantastic run in what has been a difficult season for him, 9.92, so quicker than louis hinchliffe. the fourth placed finisher in that race was also quicker than the brit as well and at that point he knew he would not be taking part in the final. and then the third and final semifinal to placejust the third and final semifinal to place just now the third and final semifinal to placejust now and the third and final semifinal to place just now and all eyes were on zharnel hughes, the one remaining hope for a place in the final. but i can report that he finished in sixth place. thomson, the fastest man in the world this year, another jamaican, he won. fred curley, a silver medallist last time out, world champion a couple of years ago, he was second. zharnel hughes was down in sixth. so a frustrating few minutes for the british sprinters. hughes has been suffering with a bit of injury trouble at this
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stage, so not a massive surprise he failed to make the final. he made it last time in tokyo but a false start and he was disqualified before he had a chance to contest it. he would have been desperate to make it. louis hinchliffe is full of promise, only 22 years old, and he had such a fantastic run yesterday that many will see he can be proud of his performance here and we would be very excited about his potential and he is guided by carl lewis, the former 0lympian, in the states. we can learn from this into the future. much more to come from louis hinchliffe coming get —— going forward. disappointment for dina asher smith last night not making the 100 metres final meanwhile daryll neita so close to a medal but there's fresh hope for them in the 200 metres. yes, they have got to contest a semifinal first before they get to
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the final. that will be tomorrow, but, yes, three british sprinters made it through to the semis in the heats earlier on today. dina asher—smith after that disappointment of failing to reach the 100 metre final is, she said the anger and frustration of that drove her to perform better today in the 200 metres. daryll neita as well is also through, having come so agonisingly close to a medal last night in the final of the 100 metres. 41 hundredths of a second is the margin she missed out by. and then bianca williams as welljoining them in the semifinal, the third and final of those british bridges to get through. it has been blown wide open, the 200 metre contest, because the reigning world champion shericka jackson has withdrawn after failing to recover from jackson has withdrawn after failing to recoverfrom injury. but all three of those brits will still have
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to contend withjulian alfred, the 100 metre champion, having claimed st lucia was my first ever medal in that victory last night. so lots to look forward to tomorrow in the 200 metres, but for the men their hopes are overfor the final. metres, but for the men their hopes are over for the final. but there are over for the final. but there are still the relays to, of course, so maybe they can see something in that competition instead. we so maybe they can see something in that competition instead.— that competition instead. we will look forward _ that competition instead. we will look forward to _ that competition instead. we will look forward to that. _ that competition instead. we will look forward to that. the - that competition instead. we will look forward to that. the finals . look forward to that. the finals starting in about an hour and a quarter to go. thank you to dan rowan. great britain's tommy fleetwood was on the brink of gold before falling agonisingly short against the world number one scottie scheffle in an in an enthralling finale in paris. the american shot a brilliant final round of 62, which included nine birdies to finish on 19 under par. fleetwood was level with scheffeler,
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before this crucial moment on the 17th saw him drop a shot. he still had a chance to take it to a play off, but this had to go in on the 18th. was it going to? no, is the answer. after that the united states took the gold and he cemented his status as the best player in the world. after that it was scheffeler who took the gold for the united states to further cement his status as the best player in the world. japan's hideki matsayama winning bronze, whilst rory mcilroy, competing for ireland of course, finished joint fifth, withjon rahm. i loved playing today and having a run at a gold medal, it is the most amazing feeling, it really was. of course i'm disappointed that i couldn't go all the way but i also can't believe i am stood here as an olympic medallist, whatever that is.
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what an amazing feeling. xander was nervous for me at the last. you always want to do the best you can, you either win a tournament or you lose it, so, yeah, iwas nervous and i was desperate to get the silver medal when i couldn't get gold. one of the special things about it is you watch all these athletes training their whole lives to get an olympic medal and i can't believe i am here and i got one. just missing out on gold has been a theme for team gb today. three years ago amber rutter got covid on the eve of the tokyo 0lympics, today she finally got her hands on an olympic medal. it was silver for her in the women's skeet shooting final, but it could have been more. she and chile's francisca crovetto chadid were tied so the match went quite literally to a shoot—off. with the score still level rutter felt she had hit both targets but was only given one after a review. slow motion replays appeared to show she did hit both targets. crovetto chadid then hit her final two clays to take gold. plenty of debate and discussion after that
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controversial end to the final. for rutter still a day to remember, she was competing after giving birth in april. i truly hope this does inspire women out there, regardless of whether it is shooting or sport or whatever you are passionate about in life, that when you have a baby your life doesn't stop, theyjust come along for the ride with you. i really hope i can inspire some other women out there or those who want to start a family. you have to do whatever makes you happy and family is the most important thing. great britain have won their fifth equestrian medal of the olympics as lottie fry won bronze in today's individual dressage. she won the same colour medal in the team event yesterday. 0ur sports news correspondent laura scott has more now. from the chateau de versailles: settings don't get much more iconic than this, but today the individual dressage final was being held amid a difficult backdrop, given the ongoing controversy surrounding that video of british
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dressage star charlotte dujardin excessively whipping a horse. but in the absence of charlotte, another rider rose to the occasion for team gb, this time charlotte fry, and her aptly named black stallion glamourdale. she said it would be the best of british with a french twang when it came to her music and that is what the crowd here definitely got with the national anthems of both great britain and france in there, with a mix of spandau ballet and robbie williams as well. her score was not quite enough to go top of the podium. she came out and was in second and with three riders still to go she thought a spot on the podium had passed her by. here is what she had to say about her reaction when she found out the bronze was hers. i was just accepting the fourth place and i was happy with it and we were on our way back to the stables and then suddenly we thought we'll just check the scores and suddenly it was bronze and a lot
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of screaming going on. her team—mate carl hester is competing at his seventh 0lympic games and he finished in sixth. but he told me afterwards he wasn't entirely sure whether this would be his final 0lympics. he wants to go home and regroup before making a decision. and becky moody on her 0lympic debut, what a time she has had. she was here as a reserve for charlotte dujardin but more than stepped up to the plate on a horse called jagerbomb and during their test they were dancing to tom jones' sex bomb. she told me she had hoped to send a positive message about the partnership between her and her horse. that is what a lot of people don't get. they think we are making them do this. they wouldn't do if they didn't want to do it. he goes in there and he is like there are 16,000 people watching me and it's brilliant. the knees go higher and the ears more forward and that is what they want to see
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a bit more of. the horses love doing this. that concludes the dressage at the paris 2024 olympic games, but in the arena tomorrow we have the individual jumping qualifiers before the final on tuesday. so far team gb have had a medal in every single one of the equestrian disciplines, so can they make it a clean sweep? laura scott therefore us. it's the final night of the swimming at paris' la defense arena, and great britain haven't managed to add to their medal haul. the british men's 4x100 medley relay team — 0llie morgan, adam peaty, james guy and duncan scott — were in with a chance swimming in lane two, but finished fourth. china took the gold, ahead of the usa and france. it's the first time the usa have been beaten in this event. there was a world record broken in the men's 1500 metre freestyle, as the usa's bobby finke led from start to finish, breaking the old mark set by china's sun yang at london 2012 and defending his 0lympic title in the process. daniel wiffen won
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bronze for ireland. in the women's 50 metres freestyle, it was sweden's sahra sjostrom who came out on top, edging out australia's meg harris and china's zhang yufei to win her second gold of the games and the usa rounded off the action in the pool with a world record of their own in the women's 4x100 medley relay, the team of regan smith, lilly king, gretchen walsh and torri huske breaking their own previous mark by a second. australia won silver and china won bronze. let's have a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines today at the olympics. in gymnastics, harry hepworth�*s become the first british man to win a medal in the vault. he took bronze with jake jarman one place behind in fourth. great britain's wait for a first 0lympic men's hockey medal since 1988 continues after they lost to india at the quarter—final stage. with the scores level at 1—1 it went
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to a tense shootout. kumar pal scoring the winner here to make it 4—2. and charlotte purdue has pulled out of next weekend's women's marathon because of an ankle injury. she was set to make her 0lympic debut but will now be replaced by clara evans. novak djokovic has finally done it, after 16 years, he's won the one remaining major title that was missing from his collection. he's become just the fifth player after steffi graf, andre agassi, rafael nadal and serena williams to complete the "�*golden slam' to complete the "golden slam" of winning all four major titles and an olympic gold medal in the singles after beating carlos alcaraz in straight sets in today's final. top of your screen, djokovic was outstanding. despite knee surgery
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a couple of months ago. despite losing to his opponent carlos alcaraz at wimbledon just three weeks ago, he saved eight break points across an epic first set and after an hour and a half he edged it on a tie break. the second set went the distance too, alcaraz, so good at coming back, had no answers today. djokovic's forehand got stronger somehow and so the 37 —year—old beating the 21—year—old. a dream come true for djokovic. a 24—time grand slam champion, the most successful man in tennis history in terms of titles, is now finally an olympic champion and you can see what it means to him. the emotion pouring out as he celebrated with his daughter and his family. you can see what it meant to him — a man driven by records — who knew this was his last realistic chance for gold. i am overwhelmed with all the emotions right now, to be honest. it is hard to describe, i have waited for this moment all my life, all my career. the first time i participated
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in the olympic games was in 2008 and i won the bronze medal there. since then i have played another two or three semifinals in the olympic games and failed to reach the finals, so the pressure was mounting every next olympic games. at age 37 with no title this year i didn't know what my chances really were, but i always believe in myself and i know if i am well—prepared i can win against anybody. playing for my country was always the greatest honour. having my family and my daughter cara and my wife here and my son stefan with me here to witness that, but not only to witness it in the finals, but to have them old enough to realise what is happening isjust, i don't know, so many emotions. i want to cry, laugh, jump, scream, all at once. it is the best feeling i have ever had. do them all.
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one more question. where does this rate in your career? 2a grand slams, eight year—end world number ones and the davis cup, let's not forget that, where does this rank? right at the top. i mean, i have been blessed with incredible achievements in my career in this sport, i have won pretty much everything and this was the only thing missing and that was something in my mind all these years. i really wanted to get that extra step and fight for a medal and at the age of 37 again playing against the reigning roland garros and wimbledon champion, alcaraz, who is in form, competing with a 21—year—old and battling three hours and two sets is something inexplicable and i am super proud and joyfulfor it. next to a surprise winner of the women's road race in the cycling — the 31—year—old american kristen faulkner winning gold. a crash split the field, as the race entered paris for three
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laps of a circuit around the city centre. the british team were in the hunt — 23—year—old pfeiffer georgi was best placed. she couldn't quite stay with the leaders but finished fifth. it was looking like a four—way battle for gold until faulkner, the usa national champion, got away from her rivals and arrived under the eiffel tower on her own to take the biggest win of her career. taiwan's lin yu—ting has become the second boxer at the centre of a gender eligibility row to secure a medal at the olympics. lin beat bulgaria's svetlana staneva by unanimous decision to reach the semi—finals of the women's featherweight division. like algeria's imane khelif, lin is competing in paris despite being banned from last year's world championships by the international boxing association after reportedly failing gender eligibility tests. earlier, the international 0lympics committee claimed tests used by the iba were illegitimate and lacked credibility.
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i think the whole process is flawed and therefore it is not up to me as a spokesperson or medical expert, but the whole process i understand was flawed from the very beginning, from the conception of the test, and to have it shared with us and now it has become public it is so flawed it is impossible to engage with it. it doesn't mean there can't be a process in the future, that we can't discuss this, but the specific test and also the credibility of the iba as it is, it doesn't give any credibility to those tests or the method in which those tests were carried out. (tx sot) the scheduled swim training for monday's mixed team triathlon was cancelled for the second day in a row after concerns over the water quality in the seine. 0lympic organisers made the decision on today's session because the water had dropped back below the required standard after heavy rain towards the end of last week. it comes after the men's triathlon had been postponed by a day to wednesday
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because of poor water quality. we are expecting improvement in the next hours. i don't have the last figures but we are expecting improvement regarding the weather forecast. as we have seen, the sun and heat have very positive impacts. we are hopeful that we can organise the competition tomorrow. let's move away from the olympics and bring you up—to—date with what else has been happening. after a goal drought in the two matches on the opening day of the scottish premiership there's been a glut today with 11 across three games. the champions celtic have got the defence of their title underway with a comfortable win, as nick parrott reports. celtic clinched the title with a 5—0 win against kilmarnock
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at the end of last season. they had not lost at home on the opening day for 7h years, so an upset against the same opposition seemed unlikely. the hosts were relentless from the start and were rewarded with a goal after quarter of an hour when reo hatate struck. they briefly took their foot off the gas, allowing kilmarnock forward, but they failed to test new signing kasper schmeichel. celtic ended the first half like they had started it and defender liam scales with his first goal since before last christmas. the game was over as a contestjust before the hour mark. nicholas kuhn had hit the bar in the first half, but the german had more luck this time. substitute defender anthony ralston wrapped things up with a finish any striker would have been proud of. they will face tougher encounters this season, especially in europe, but the minimum theirfans demand is winning the title and three points is the perfect start. nick parrott, bbc news. believe it or not, just a day into the scottish football season we've had the first managerial
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sacking — raith have parted company with boss ian murray, following yesterday's defeat at airdrieonians. it comes just two months after he guided the club to the scottish championship play—off final. meanwile elsewhere today dundee came from behind twice to deny dundee united victory on their scottish premiership return in theirfirst derby in more than two years. there were three goals in the opening 22 minutes with miller thomson giving the hosts a 2—1 lead at half time. but dundee finished the stronger and after a penalty was awarded with around ten minutes left luke mccowan earned the visitors a share of the points. in the day's other game st mirren beat hibernian 3—0. in cricket, england opener zak crawley has been ruled out of the test series against sri lanka later this month with a fractured finger. he suffered the injury while attempting to take a catch at second slip in the third and final test against west indies at edgbaston last week. dan lawrence will open alongside
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ben duckett in crawley�*s absence. the first test against sri lanka starts in manchester in just over a fortnight. it's been a day of mixed fortunes for toyota at rally finland. eight time world champion sebastien 0gier claimed his third victory of the season, despite only driving part time this year for the japanese team. that result saw the frenchman move above his team mate elvin evans and into second in the drivers' championship after the briton crashed out on the first corner of the penultimate stage. toyota also lost another car when reigning champion kalle rovanpera hit a rock on the same stage, ending his hopes of a first home win. no—one was hurt. italy's enea bastianini added to his saturday sprint victory by completing the british motogp double. he overtookjorge martin on the penultimate lap at silverstone. second place was enough to move him above third placed francesco bagnaia in the riders' championship.
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a quick update from the stade de france, bad news. jemma reekie will not be in the 800 metres final, she finished fifth in her semifinal. bebe gill also missed out after she finished fourth. keely hodgkinson is about to run her semifinal now and you can follow all of that on the bbc sport website. a quick look at the medals table before we finish. china are top, usa second, and great britain is fifth. no goals added today. —— gold medals. the two silvers were golf and shooting. hello. a cloudy start for many the
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sunday but is that a continued sunshine came through and this is richmond upon thames, but it could be anywhere across parts of england and wales and some of eastern scotland as well. threatening skies further north and west as we see in north berwick. the sign of rain is just around the corner. not only rain but strengthening winds, gusts in excess of 45 miles an hour will strafe northern ireland and western scotland through the night tonight. this is tied into this area of low pressure and that will linger first thing on monday morning. that means the rain could be quite heavy, particularly in western scotland. the bright yellow and green show the intensity of the rain and we could see two to three inches of rain before it clears through. the rain is showery in nature across eastern scotland. it will be a narrow band but an intense rainfall moving through northern ireland. some drizzle in south—west england but
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again that cloud will thin and break for central and eastern england. that will continue to be the case as we go through the day and with the south—westerly wind tracking in some very warm air from the near continent it will turn increasingly more humid as we go through the afternoon. temperatures may well pique across eastern england as high as 26 degrees. cooler and fresher further north and west as the frontal system continues to move its way steadily eastwards. it will just ease to a narrow intense band of rain through the night, but because it has been so warm and humid by day it has been so warm and humid by day it could be an uncomfortable knack for getting a good night's sleep and that front will still be there first thing on tuesday morning. good news for gardeners out there, welcome rain in south—east england, not much but hopefully enough to keep the plants happy. brighter conditions following on behind and a few scattered showers and highs of 16 and 25 as we go through tuesday
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afternoon. into wednesday, low pressure is set to return and this is the trend as we go through the end of the week with lows and frontal system staying in the north. further south we might continue to see high pressure clinging on, giving the best of the drier, brighter and warmer weather at times. live from london. this is bbc news.
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ten police officers in the uk have been injured in violent unrest in rotherham, around 700 people took part in a far—right rally at a hotel housing asylum seekers. and in middlesbrough, hundreds gathered to protect a mosque against the violent mob, after it broke through a police line and attacked officers. in bolton, an emergency order is in place to prevent people from covering their faces, with many hidden behind balaclavas. the prime minister says he'll do whatever it takes to end the violence. i want you to know that this violent mob do not represent our country and we will bring them to justice.
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