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a comfortable victory at donnybrook. it has been a while since we had a win. it is a massive boost to the girls. i think we played a more expansive game of rugby. our handling execution let us down. but nice to show we can move the ball around really threatened teams and that fact. disappointed we conceded a try at the end, otherwise we know what we have to work on for the next game, a big one against wales. plenty of action to catch up with in south korea at the winter olympics. andrew musgrave recorded the best result by a british cross country skier, with a seventh place finish in the men's 30 kilometres skiathlon. his journey to the games began sweating it out on the roller ski tracks of the scottish highlands but he nearly claimed a medal in pyeongchang. andy swiss reports. the winter olympics at their most wintry, —16 and bone chilling winds but andrew musgrave was about to warm the spirits. and they are underway. cross—country skiing is not a traditional olympic strength for britain — their previous best, the 29th place in sochi for andrew musgrave. not this time. with barely a lap to go, there he was remarkably in silver medal position. could he hang on? well, not quite — as the norwegian raced to the gold, musgrave faded
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to seventh, but with his best events still to come, that is some feat. at the age ofjust 17, american red gerard spinning to snowboarding gold, a teenage triumph to light up these games. andy swiss, bbc news. a fantastic achievement at just 17 yea rs a fantastic achievement at just 17 years old! that's all from sportsday. there'll be more sport here on bbc news throughout the evening.
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theyire tom apart by an accident; late in lifetfiey macaw?” ~ 7 , then we're taken into a parallel world, where they meet in middle—age and have a passionate affair. then another, in which they marry young but confront unhappiness. they are ivy and abe, and in elizabeth enfield's novel, each of these stories reveals a part of their character as if all of us aren'tjust who we are here and now, but are always carrying with us the weight of the oldest question of all — what if? welcome. in this book, we are reminded that life and your fate can change
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in the blink of an eye. do you think of that as being reassuring or alarming?
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