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tv   Sportsday  BBC News  August 7, 2024 12:45am-1:01am BST

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kerr and ingebritsen are caught cold as cole hocker steals gold in the 1500 metre olympic final. teenage tricks — bronze again for sky brown in the skateboard park with australia finishing top of the podium. and the king of the pole vault meets the king of sweden. we catch up with mondo duplantis after his gold medal winning, record breaking night at the stade de france. hello there. day 11 at the olympic games has drawn to a close, another 15 gold medals have been won. who would triumph in the mens 1500 metres final? would it be great britain's world championjosh kerr or norway's 0lympic
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championjacob ingebritssen, one of the great rivalries in atheltics, with no love lost between the two, as it was they cancelled each other out. the american cole hocker is the new olympic champion, ingebritsen led from the off and set a world record pace as he looked to unsettle kerr moved past him coming off the final bend, but they weren't alone, and as both tired, hocker stormed up the inside to take gold in an olympic record time. ingebritsen finished out of the medals, kerr took silver just ahead of another american yared nuguse. team gb's dina asher smith and daryl neitta finished 4th and fifth in the womens 200 metres final the usa's gabby thomas running away with gold, silver went to st lucia's 100 metre championjulien alfred. the usa's brittany brown edged out asher—smith for bronze. sky brown has won bronze in the women's skateboarding park final, just as she did 3 years ago as a 13 year at the tokyo games.
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1a year old australian arisa trew took gold with japan's kokona hiraki, silver. for brown, just making the podium is a fantastic achievemnt after dislocating her shoulderjust over a week ago. she spoke to our sports correspondent natalie pirks. this journey since tokyo, since ten, it is been a while. and doing it with all these girls, coco was with me the whole way. we've got next time. it's been really cool just watching we've got next time. it's been really cooljust watching the level of six gate boarding growing up for the every day and especially girls. i'm really stoked. having my injuries before this and not knowing what i could do here and then getting this bronze medal, i'm very happy. in the velodrome, the dutch
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smashed their own world record twice in defending their team sprint title, outclassing great britain in the final. harrie lavreysen, roy van den berg and jeffrey hoogland were the same three that took gold in tokyo, ending the olympic starnglehold that team gb had on the event since london 2012 the british trio of ed lowe, hamish turnbull and jack carlin had no complaints about taking silver. at the diving, china are still on for a clean sweep of gold medals, quan hongchan was untouchable in the womens 10 metre platform, she had already claimed gold in the syncro final with chen yuxi, amnd final with chen yuxi, and it was yuxi who took silver. kim mi rae of north korea claimed bronze. that's 5 out of five golds so far for china with three more diving events left. germany have claimed every individual equestrian gold as well as gold in the team dressage. christian kukuk is the olympic showjumping champion. only three riders went clear and qualifed for the final jump—off, and kukuk, on his horse checker 47 was the only one to go clear in that. swiss steve guerdat won silver,
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the netherlands maikel van der vleuten took bronze. she successfully defended her boxing title the 34—year—old claimed a split, or— to one decision for them and then announced it would be her last fight. she's retiring put up her gold means that paris is already the most successful 0lympic in ireland's history. four goals and three bronze so far. four goals and three bronze so far. imane khelif — the algerian boxer whose eligibility has been called into question will fight for an olympic gold medal on friday. she won her welterweight semi—final against thailand's janjaem suwannapheng by a unanimous points decision. khelif is one of two boxers competing in paris despite being banned from last year's world championships by the international boxing association after they were reported to have failed eligibily tests to compete in the women's category. the ioc believe the iba to be discredited.
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training for the open water swimming was cancelled on tuesday — due to more concerns over water quality in the river seine. it's the 5th time the issue has forced a familiarisation event to be cancelled and the men's triathlon also had to be postponed. the mixed triathlon took place as scheduled on monday but a day later, the pollution levels were unsafe. 0rganisers say they are "confident" the women's and men's 10k marathon swim races will go ahead on thursday and friday. mondo duplantis promised a big party with very little sleep after successfully defending his 0lympic pole vault title, and as he surfaced today, that certainly appeared to be the case duplantis — lit up the stade de france with one of the performances that will define the paris 0lympics, he easily won gold before going on to clear 6.25 meters to break the world record for the ninth time, the king and queen of sweden, carl gustav and silvia, were watching on last night and came to congratulate him in person, so what more can he achieve in the sport? i feel like i have
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ifeel like i have a lot for that i don't really care about the future right now. i'm enjoying this moment very much. ijust can enjoy enjoying this moment very much. i just can enjoy what enjoying this moment very much. ijust can enjoy what i've done, be proud of myself, enjoy it with my family and my friends and my close ones. that's about it. i don't worry about anything else after that. the future will come for the panga live in the present right now and just enjoy this. —— i'm going to live in the present. away from the games, 10 days before the start of the prmier league season. champions manchester city have agreed to letjulian alvarez join atletico madrid for what would be a club record 81million pounds. record 81 million pounds. the la liga club will pay at least £61; million up front with a further £17 million in potential add—ons for the argentinian world cup winner alvarez has yet to agree personal terms. if it goes through it'll represent a big profit for city who signed him two years ago for 1h million pounds, here's our chief football news reporter simon stone. what manchester city have been
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very good at over the last few years is maximising income from player sales. years is maximising income from playersales. i years is maximising income from player sales. i guess this is an example of that for the 81.5 million, this could be worth with all the add—ons. that would be by some margin to largest sale in manchester city sale which was previously rahim sterling at 50 million. it's a good deal in terms of the actual sale, good deal in terms of the actualsale, even good deal in terms of the actual sale, even though i think manchester city would've preferred julian alvarez to remain. really interesting point, sylvia was unveiled on sunday as cities do a signing. he's 20 years old, he's from brazil, he was excellent last season that got them into this seasons champions league. you would've thought initially it would've thought initially it would be whether he gets more games then would have been anticipated.
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the head of rugby union's governing body in england, has defended their decision to sell the naming rights to twickenham, from next month it will be called the allianz stadium — their multi—year deal with the insurance firm is worth over £100 million. here's our sports correspondentjoe wilson. what do you call this place? for some it is the home of rugby, headquarters. certainly twickenham well, no no war. henceforth this officially will be the alley on stadium. you've sold the soul of the home of rugby by renaming it after a commercial partner. yeah. there's a bit of truth in that, isn't there?— isn't there? fully understandable. | isn't there? fully| understandable. i isn't there? fully - understandable. i don't isn't there? fully _ understandable. i don't believe we sold — understandable. i don't believe we sold out. it's the home of rugby — we sold out. it's the home of rugby. experiences here are incredible, people are coming here — incredible, people are coming here. you've got some great matches — here. you've got some great matches coming up with the red roses _ matches coming up with the red roses in — matches coming up with the red roses in septemberand matches coming up with the red roses in september and the ottoman international. we believe _ ottoman international. we believe this will help us build on the — believe this will help us build on the legacy of the stadium. this_ on the legacy of the stadium. this will— on the legacy of the stadium. this will take us into the future, _ this will take us into the future, it will take us into
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decades— future, it will take us into decades from here. it's money that— decades from here. it's money that we — decades from here. it's money that we need to invest back into— that we need to invest back into the _ that we need to invest back into the game. we had a tough time _ into the game. we had a tough time coming out of covid we saw three _ time coming out of covid we saw three professional clubs go out of business last year and i was extremely painful. this is money— extremely painful. this is money that we need to generate to invest — money that we need to generate to invest back into the community games. will this money ensure _ community games. will this money ensure that - community games. will this money ensure that that - community games. will this . money ensure that that doesn't happen again? will this money ensure that no other clubs go to the wall? is ensure that no other clubs go to the wall?— to the wall? is part of a total ot. to the wall? is part of a total pot- the _ to the wall? is part of a total pot. the revenue _ to the wall? is part of a total pot. the revenue that - to the wall? is part of a total pot. the revenue that we - pot. the revenue that we generate, we invested across the whole range of initiatives. we work— the whole range of initiatives. we work closely with premiership rugby. in the future _ premiership rugby. in the future sustainability of the game, _ future sustainability of the game, we have programmes to protect— game, we have programmes to protect against that. alianza is very — protect against that. alianza is very specific and clear that for them _ is very specific and clear that for them this investment had a priority— for them this investment had a priority to _ for them this investment had a priority to go into the community game. priority to go into the communi came. ., ,., community game. the whole point of namin: community game. the whole point of naming rights _ community game. the whole point of naming rights is _ community game. the whole point of naming rights is that _ community game. the whole point of naming rights is that people - of naming rights is that people use the name. after well over a century of being twickenham, that might be a hard habit to break i suppose time will tell. just reminder of our top story, a big shock in the mens 1500
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metres, cole hocker taking gold one of two american medals on the track. and that has moved them up to the top of the medal table above china, australia are third, france fourth, they've won surfing gold to take them up to 13 golds no golds for great britain on day 11, but they stay fifth a total of 21 gold medals can be won on wednesday. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello there. there was some sunshine around on tuesday. there will be again on wednesday, and it looks like it should be a dry day across east anglia in the south east this time, whereas on tuesday the rain that we had here was much slower to clear away. but it has moved away together
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with that weather front, we've got low pressure bringing some wetter, windy weather towards the northwest of the uk, but we've all got this west or south westerly wind that's blowing in cooler and fresher air, so these are the temperatures. first thing in the morning it will be a cooler start to the day through the midlands and eastern parts of england, with some sunshine around as well. there will be some sunshine around on wednesday. we're also going to find some showers too, particularly across the northern half of the uk, where the winds will be a bit stronger. and some heavier rain and more persistent rain could affect northern and western scotland in the morning, followed by lots of showers, some of them heavy in the north. sunshine and showers for northern ireland. some showers near these western coast of england and wales will get blown further inland across wales and northern england, but a good chance of staying dry towards the southeast. here we've got the highest temperatures, not quite as high as tuesday, but still 23 degrees, 18 in the central belt of scotland. that low pressure bringing the stronger winds in the north. and those showers will pull away overnight, but it allows
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more weather systems to come in from the atlantic. so we're going to find the cloud increasing and thickening through the morning. outbreaks of rain beginning to arrive likely to turn wetter in the afternoon across northern ireland, northern england and up into scotland towards the south east and the east anglia, there will be very little rain at all. a lot of cloud, yes, but temperatures again 23 degrees. generally, though, those numbers are a little below average for this time of the year. now that wetter weather that does develop tends to move away towards the north and west overnight, leaving us with some drier prospects for friday, there still could be a weather front hanging around here across southern england during the morning, with a little rain that then moves away. we get some sunshine following on behind, showers coming into the north, particularly across the northwest of scotland, and those could be quite heavy as well. those temperatures not changing a great deal for northern areas, but it should warm up a bit through the midlands towards the south east of england. quick look ahead to the weekend —very mixed weather,
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chance of some rain at times, but on sunday and particularly monday, signs of something much, much warmer across southeastern parts of the uk.
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