late goals from crystal palace against watford takes them out of the relegation zone for the first time this season. the russian olympic committee gives its approval to athletes who want to compete as neutrals at february's winter olympics. and, with the third ashes test in perth just over 2a hours away, can england stop the australians from regaining the urn? hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with the news that two late goals from crystal palace at home to watford has taken them out of the relegation zone for the first time this season. marco silva's side had looked set to collect all three points, but it was roy hodgson‘s team who struck with goals from bakary sako and james mcarthur in the dying minutes. this, just moments after tom cleverly had received a red card for a second bookable offence for the hornets. the results takes palace up to 17th, and gives them hope for survival, having lost their opening seven games of the season, in which time they didn't even score a goal. we've done well in the last minutes

of games, really. we equalised very laid against west ham. we scored a late winner against stoke and a late winner here today. so i have to commend the players‘ attitude and determination to keep going even when things don‘t look as though they are going to go our way. burnley have moved fourth and into the champions league spots after a late ashley barnes goal in the 89th minute gave them victory over stoke city at turf moor. the win takes sean dyche‘s side, for 2h hours at least, ahead of the likes of liverpool, arsenal and tottenham. the reality is we have another tough game on saturday. you know we are enjoying this, of course, the players and the right. the next game is quickly on saturday. that is the focus. i am pleased with the lads tonight. they have to work hard tonight, grind it out. a real moment of quality to win it. that one will be parked. thursday we look to recover and move onto the next one. and chelsea have returned to the winner‘s circle

after their loss against west ham on the weekend. the blues were 3—1 winners away to huddersfield town, with the terriers‘ goal only coming in the final minute of added on time. there are seven premier league games on wednesday. leeders manchester city and manchester united are both in action, but the dust still to settle after the two sides had a heated bust—up in the tunnel following city‘s victory. but united managerjose mourinho spent much of his press conference on tuesday discussing the row, rather than their oponents bournemouth, something he said was disrespectful. we don‘t respect them? we don‘t think they are a team capable to go to old trafford and do well. no respect for the players. in the german bundesliga borussia dortmund‘s new head coach peter sturger has got his tenure at the club under way with a 2—0 win away to mainz. sturger, who left rock bottom

cologne last week after four and a half years, was then given the chance to succeed peter bosz. both goals came in the second half through sokratis and then a well worked team effort for shinji kagawa, as they claimed their first league win since the end of september. elsewhere, second placed rb leipzig drew i—i away to wolfsburg, meaning the gap at the top could be ten points if bayern munich win their match on wednesday, while freiburg climb out of the relegation zone after a surprise victory over borussia moenchengladbach, who drop two places to sixth. and with that result, eintracht frankfurt‘s win over hamburg takes them 5th. in italy, where there was one match in serie a, atalanta came from a goal down to win 2—1 at genoa and the victory moves the team from bergamo up up four places to 8th. brazilian side gremio are through to the club world cup final after an extra time win over pachuca of mexico. gremio, who recently won the copa libertadores,

needed a goalfrom everton in the 105th minute to see them to a 1—0 win over the concacaf champions. gremio will play the winner of the match between al—jazira of the uae and european champions real madrid in the final. it hasn‘t been a great year for the spanish champions, as they‘ve struggled for form both domestically and in the champions league, although their 5—0 win over sevilla last weekend will have given them reason to be confident heading into this game. the russian olympic committee has given its approval to athletes who want to compete as neutrals at february‘s winter olympics. last week, the international olympic committee banned the russian team because of what it called an unprecedented and systemic manipulation of the anti—doping system. vladimir putin had already given his backing to athletes to compete. here‘s more from our moscow correspondent steve rosenberg. i think there was little doubt that the russian olympic committee would ta ke the russian olympic committee would take this decision to support those russian athletes who choose to take

pa rt russian athletes who choose to take part in the winter games in south korea. vladimir putin had come up last week and medically he would not stand in the way of russian athletes who want to take part. it became clear then that there would be no russian boycott of the winter games because what the kremlin says happens, that is a feature of the system of power in russia, whether they are talking about the russian parliament or the russian olympic committee. but of course it will be the international olympic committee that will decide which russian athletes will be allowed to take pa rt athletes will be allowed to take part in the winter games and those athletes that do compete will be referred to as olympic athletes for russia. they won‘t be the russian flag or the national anthem in those ceremonies. australia will look to wrap up the ashes series with victory in the third test in perth, which starts on thursday. 2—0 down with three tests to play, it feels like damage limitation for england, with a number of off field incidents overshadowing the tour so far.

andy swiss has been following the series and is in western australia. fall of the issues surrounding this side, they will be a landmark test for one of the players, alistair cook set to win his 150th test cap for england. he has scored almost 4000 for england. he has scored almost 40 0 0 test for england. he has scored almost 4000 test run for his country. he has struggled for form so far in this series but he says his desire is as strong as ever. you live on the edge in professional cricket and the edge in professional cricket and the results normallyjustified the means. if you are scoring lots of ru ns means. if you are scoring lots of runs all the time, you will get places guaranteed. if not, there are other very talented people who want your place. that hasn‘t changed in 12 years and it will not change in the next 20 years. people want your place and it is up to me to score some runs to get those people following me. england are likely to be unchanged from the side that lost in adelaide but they might tinker with the batting order. jonny ba i rstow with the batting order. jonny bairstow may be promoted higher up the batting order. so some issues for them to consider before this

vital test match gets under way here on thursday. motor racing team carlin has announced it willjoin indycar in 2018 — the first british team to do so. former formula one driver max chilton has been recruited along with charlie kimball. indycar is considered one of the most dangerous motor sports in the world, with drivers maintaining almost continuous speeds of over 300 kilometres hour. sara orchard has been to meet the team. the indycar series, raced in north america and for some the most dramatic form of motor racing. in my opinion, indycar is a little more exciting because we race on ovals. we raise up to speeds of 240 mph for 500 miles. fi reaches that for some seconds and we do 500 mile races at that speed. as a formula one driver, max chilton has been racing for two yea rs max chilton has been racing for two years and joins carlin into thousand and 18 to become the first british tea m and 18 to become the first british team in the series. it is a premier

level of racing in north america so obviously there are things we haven‘t done before so it is a real step up on all levels, really. but it isa step up on all levels, really. but it is a step but we are ready for as a team. here at the carlin race shop there are trophies here, here, here and here. infact, there are trophies here, here, here and here. in fact, this building screams success from the likes of formula to an formula three, but as carlin have long been considered a launchpad for countless fi drivers, like sebastian vettel and nico rosberg, why go into indycar? predominantly formula one is dominated by manufacturers such as mercedes and ferrari and we can‘t really compete at that level. we are not really interested in just making up not really interested in just making up the numbers or being on the grid. we wa nt up the numbers or being on the grid. we want to be competitive and in indycar we can really do that. carlin are taking a risk, but so is max every time he gets into a car. the wheel is a couple of inches from your teammates and other cars and at those speeds, with a comparable to the side of you, it is terrifying.

and i have started getting night terrors which i have never had before and that has come because of the stress of the job. but when you win it is all worth it. carlin will join the indycar series for the first race of 2018 in florida next march. good luck to them. he shocked the establishment with his victory over vladimir klitschko to become heavyweight champion of the world two years ago. now the british boxer tyson fury is free to resume his career after accepting a backdated two—year doping ban. he was charged injune 2016 for using a banned steroid, but blamed the result on eating uncastrated wild boar. it means he‘s free to fight again once he regains his boxing licence. that is all we have time for. for all of the results from the premier league, crystal palace winning late against watford, burnley moving up to fourth, and chelsea, the champions, getting their campaign back on track. bbc.com/sport is the way to go.

but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. well, the weather story is getting a bit messy now during the middle of the week. and although we will see cold air through the middle of the country, there is still the risk over the next few days of some snow and also further ice. and we are starting wednesday morning off with the risk of ice across scotland and england. that is because we have overnight rain moving through, falling on freezing surfaces, then skies will clear for a time during wednesday morning before the next bout of rain moves in. so this is where we will see the ice risk ahead of this next rain band. and it will be quite showery pushing into much of scotland and north—west england and northern ireland, quite a messy commute to work in the morning.

a lot of standing water around because there will be a little bit of snow melt as those temperatures will be a little less cold than we have had over the last few mornings. snow will be falling over the mountains of scotland and maybe a little bit of sleetiness over the higher ground of wales, too. but generally speaking, it is going to be of mostly rain here, combined with the snow melt elsewhere. a lot of snow here in the last few days. there there is going to be a lot of standing water around. dry across the east, but we have that ice risk. but then the rain across western areas will be spreading eastwards during the course of the day. some heavy bursts on this as it continues to spread south—eastwards but behind it the skies brighten up quite nice. some sunshine for england and wales. but slightly colder air moves into scotland and northern ireland, so showers here increasingly wintry. but across the south, you‘ll notice, 9—11 celsius. so, slightly milder than of late. then, as we head through wednesday night, we‘re looking at the next rash of showers and rain, which move through. some of these producing a bit of snow on the higher ground maybe

down to lower levels in the heaviest bursts. so, by thursday morning, the risk of a bit of light snow and, again, ice as temperatures fall away. so there could be a little bit of travel disruption. and then, as we head on into thursday day, it looks quite a messy picture. quite windy, once again, plenty of showers moving into northern and western areas. again, these wintry over the higher ground of the north. and we could even see some substantial snow across central parts of scotland through the day, so this could cause some disruption and, generally speaking, those temperatures are a bit lower than wednesday. and then, as that area of low pressure moves away on friday, we open the floodgates again to the arctic north, so it looks like it will be very cold to end the week. you can see the blue colours extending right across the british isles, ever as far south as france and northern spain. so it does mean that friday is going to be a cold one. could have a little bit of ice to watch out for it in places. a few wintry showers across coastal areas but, that said, plenty of sunshine too. but you will need to wrap up, it‘s going to be cold. welcome to bbc news,

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