hello again. the man who wins the open usually deserves it — not just because they've beaten 155 other golfers. but to claim the claretjug you've got to overcome the weather too. and boy, did the weather test them at royal birkdale today. wind and rain that got worse as the day went on. so all the more impressive that in the worst of it. jordan spieth kept his rivals at arm's length. the american leads after two rounds. from his compatriot matt kuchar who's two back. ian poulter is the best—placed british player on three under par. with rory mcilroy‘s 68 putting him back in contention. ben croucher reports. this was a day when a mother nature through all she could at royal birkdale. and when jordan through all she could at royal birkdale. and whenjordan spieth laughed right back on herface. they had to contend with a great british summer. had to contend with a great british summer. spieth urged two shots clear of the field, three birdies an eagle when all around were getting swept down the leaderboard. joint overnight leader matt kuchar struggled early in the day but like

his ball, clung on. second on four under, shooting a 71. as the weather turned, sun started to lose their grip. nodding in —— not ian poulter, he held on. he has not even played a majorfor a year. rory he held on. he has not even played a major for a year. rory mcilroy continued his recovery from a disastrous start yesterday to blow into the top ten. three birdies in his first six holes leaves him on one under par, but would win is set to howl over the weekend, this championship still remains a very open. it was going to look scrappy and it did. there was no way for it to look pretty today. i stole a few. even the conditions were bad i did not quite play the way i did yesterday. but i stole a couple with a chip in and that's what you need to stay on top in this tournament.

i haven't played a major in a while, it will be nice to lie in tomorrow. have a look at the locations, the pins. see from how other players are playing, certain holes, how the course should play. it's been softened up right now. i hope we get a nice weekend without too much rain. defending champion henrik stenson is eight shots off the lead after revealing his rented home was burgled during thursday's first round... with "valuable personal items" stolen. not too much affected today's round, i wouldn't say. but spending four hours with the police are going out for dinner rather than staying in a house you wanted to, that was a different evening, i'll put it that way. kadeena cox has won a 14th gold medal for great britain at the world

para athletics championships at the london stadium — winning the t38 400 metres. kate grey has been watching the action. only one gold medal and that was for katrina cox. she led from the very beginning and by the time she reached that time strapped, the rest of the field were long way back. as she crossed the line, she was six seconds ahead of the silver medal. i caught up with her after the race.|j was confident that we contributors. i knew i did not have the strength for the last 100. i've not been on the bike, the bike is right out of my shrink from. like i like i said i have not put in the work. that last 100 metres is going to be horrible i'io 100 metres is going to be horrible no matter, so i needed a bit of a gap to give myself a buffer to come back. i got the bronze rio saab would like to get the medal here, is that asking too much? —— i got the

bronze over in rio. but it was disappointment for paul blake, finishing fourth in the 400 metres. the event his paralympic champion in. he looked promising form as he came into the final 100 metres, but the rest of the field just caught up with him in the latter stages and he did indeed finish fourth. heartbreaking results for him, but he will have to recover quickly as he will have to recover quickly as he is back in action in the 100 metres tomorrow. all a more positive note, britain's steve morris and james hamilton both qualified in the t20 a 100 metres tomorrow, and they will bejoined by t20 a 100 metres tomorrow, and they will be joined by the likes ofjulie hermitage, sabrina cox and alan davies, amongst the others competing on day nine of these champion jets. chris froome is just two stages away from a fourth tour de france title after maintaining his lead... and keeping his rivals at bay. on stage 19. as drew savage reports. 1938 miles done, and 216 to go.

chris broome ever closer to that fourth tour victory, and joining the ra nks fourth tour victory, and joining the ra n ks of fourth tour victory, and joining the ranks of the all—time cycling greats. he would not have expected much action today, as the tour the alps, it was too flat to let broome's rivals much chance to attack. a group of riders broke away. equally significant, none of them were a threat to christopher. if there were any twists and turns left in the bottle to thejersey, being saved up for tomorrow. the green of roberto and canon drier, happy to track through to the finish. the action was provided as he broke clear that leading group to pick upa he broke clear that leading group to pick up a win for team dimension data. through happy to roll across the line, his lead still 23 seconds, all he needs is more good day. usain bolt has won his last race before he defends his world 100

metres title at next month's world championships in london. the jamaican won in the diamond league meeting in monaco — perhaps not the quality of field he'll face in london. but a season's best of 9.95 seconds nevertheless. and the first time he's gone under ten seconds this season. britain's cj ujah finished fourth injust over 10 seconds. and a great run tonight from laura muir in the women's 3,000 metres — the scot finished third and beat her personal best by almost eight seconds and her fellow scot eilish mccolgan also produced a brilliant run to finish fourth and set a new pb by 12 seconds. chelsea have completed the signing of spain striker alvaro morata from real madrid for a club record fee believed to be around 60 million pounds. the 24—year—old has signed a five—year deal and willjoin the chelsea squad on their preseason tour of asia. morata forshaw is our first choice.

he isa morata forshaw is our first choice. he is a good striker. he is a player with the right prospect for chelsea. he is very young, and for sure he can improvea he is very young, and for sure he can improve a lot. i offered him a debut with us. leeds rhinos failed to close the gap on super league leaders castleford when they were thumped 34—0 at wigan... but leeds were without 15 senior players for the match — and fielded debutant harry newman... who at 17 became the first player born this century to play super league. the rhinos' lack of experience showed as they shipped seven tries to wigan — this one from sam tomkins. it was one—way traffic and george williams scored two tries of his own as wigan moved up to seventh. wins too for leigh and hull fc tonight. britain's tom daley

is through to the individual ten metre platform final at the world diving championships in budapest... the event in which he failed to win a medal at the rio olympics. daley qualified for the final with the second highest score... as he attempts to claim his first individual world championship gold medal since 2009. fellow brit matty lee is also through... british diver grace reid has finished an impressive fourth in her world championship debut in budapest... in the three metre springboard. reid was the first gb woman to reach the olympic final in this event in rio last year... and scored a personal best total of 336.70 from her five routines. china's tingmao shi took gold. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be

bringing us tomorrow. with me are laura hughes of the daily telegraph and jessica elgot of the guardian. thank you both for coming, we are paying you as much as i male reviewers, don't fret. controversial but you have to laugh at don't you? the telegraph reports on calls by the transport secretary to ditch first class compartments on crowded commuter trains. and it has a new photo of prince george — released to celebrate his fourth birthday. the guardian says interpol has circulated a list of islamic state fighters it believes could be trained to carry out suicide attacks in europe. it also features on its front page lady hale, the new president of the supreme court. the weekend edition of the ft reports on a probe into pension transfers after concern that some people cashing in their final salary pensions may be getting unsuitable advice.

the times claims ha rd—left labour supporters are plotting to oust tom watson as the party's deputy leader — and replace him with the shadow foreign secretary emily thornberry. on its front page, the daily mail reports that labour mps are urging women to boycott boots over its refusal to cut the cost of the morning—after pill. the daily express has the story of an illegal immigrant who walked free from court after he burst into a church and threatened to kill english people. the daily mirror says female stars at the bbc have been promised better wages to stay quiet over gender pay gaps. 0h, oh, have they? and the sun has news that pudsey the dancing dog — made famous on britain's got talent — has died. let's begin, shall we? what a week. let's begin, shall we? what a week. let's begin, shall we? what a week. let's begin with the telegraph. " the line for first class. this is chris grayling doing a wide—ranging

interview, yet this is the headline that has come out. this is because the telegraph have had a long campaign against this ridiculous system we have where we are packed like sardines in trains, hot and sweaty desperate rank to get to work and you can see in the distance this empty first—class carriage which really we don't have a need for. chris grayling has done this interview with our political editor and said he understands the pain of commuters as a commuter himself, he comes into work every morning on the train. he has vowed to crack down on this system so we will be seeing less fi rst—class this system so we will be seeing less first—class carriages. this system so we will be seeing less first-class carriages. some of the trains like travelling, they are suspended. it's as first—class but anyone can sit in here. what if you have bought a first—class ticket, you'd be pretty miffed?” have bought a first—class ticket, you'd be pretty miffed? i always wonder who these people are hereby first—class tickets on short commuter routes. —— these people who buy first—class tickets. loads of people go and sit in first

class anyway, even if they don't have a ticket. it's a good idea. not me ever, of have a ticket. it's a good idea. not me ever, of course. have a ticket. it's a good idea. not me ever, of course. but i think it isa fairly me ever, of course. but i think it is a fairly common practice, so getting rid of them is the right thing to do. what else has come out of this wide ranging interview do we know? drones, the crackdown on drones in airports he said. near airports. that's a good idea, isn't it? lots of stories of chaos at airports as drones fly across the sky. it's a problem. actually across london, i think it is illegal to fly drones over london but we have seen that happen recently. there have been more reports of drones recently. i can't imagine anything more terrifying if you're an airline pilot then suddenly seeing a drone coming towards you. seems like something that should not happen. coming towards you. seems like something that should not happenm shouldn't. that's all we can say. does not feel like we have a huge amount of detail, have we? he has also said theresa may will stay until 2020. now we are getting somewhere! given that obviously this

week has seen lots of different rumours, and cabinet members briefing against each other over the weekend, which has been seen as people jostling for power. suggesting she is not weak enough... too weak, not strong enough! laughter strong and stable. let's move the times. plot to oust labour number two, corbyn supporters target watson for removal. who are these ha rd left watson for removal. who are these hard left elements, do we even know? the times story doesn't necessarily make it clear who they are but it is fairto make it clear who they are but it is fair to say that among some of jeremy corbyn‘s perhaps more hard—core fan base, tom watson is not popular. he was one of the people who first tried to getjeremy corbyn to stand down last summer. he

then went public about his doubts about corbyn‘s leadership throughout the whole of the last year. he has made it clear he does not think that corbyn would lead the party to an election victory necessarily. he has made himself unpopular in that regard. and he was right. yes, but i think watson himself would admit that corbyn did better than he expected him to. whether there's a plot to replace, tom watson himself has said since the election result that he... you know, jeremy corbyn has earned the right as the leader and he will give him his backing. and that he will not block corbyn even making any sort of party reforms that he wants to make that might give the left wing of the party more power. i don't understand, perhaps people don't seem understand, perhaps people don't seem to be happy with that. this article does not have lots of sources quoted at all, does it? does that lead you to discover who was making these brats?|j that lead you to discover who was making these brats? i think it raises interesting questions —— who

was making these threats? interesting questions about thornbury. it does not seem like there any direct plans, any motions tabled to be voted on at the party ‘s conference later this year, which could introduce some of these changes but probably would not pass anyway. the other angle to this is that there are talks of this mcdonald clause, which would reduce the number of mps that you need to nominate you if you want to run for the leadership. again, even if i was to happen, which it might, the idea behind it is that if they do introduce these changes, if the corbyn wing of the party wanted another corbyn —esque leader, then it would be easy for them to do that, but still again, the candidates that are more moderate wing of the party would want to see. they will still get on the ballot and do well if that is the general mood of the party. but it hasn't happened yet. however,