coming up on this programme: mikaela shiffrin sets her sights on more medals after claiming her first gold at the winter olympics. aksel lund svindal becomes the oldest olympic alpine skiing champion at the age of 35. and defending champion karolina pliskova is knocked out of the qatar open. thanks forjoining us. after days of delays due to the weather, mikaela shiffrin started her eagerly awaited winter olympics run with gold in the women's giant slalom. the victory adds to her title from sochi four years ago and sets shiffrin up for a possible history—making medal haul with events to come. austin halewood rounds up the best of the action from day six. america's golden girl. kayla schiffer and was the face of the us

tea m schiffer and was the face of the us team before the games began and with four gold medals in her sights, after a three—day medal delay, the olympics finally got under way. trailing after the first run she needed to bring things back in the second and under the pressure that comes with being favourite she didn't disappoint. the 22—year—old pushing things to the limit, but the risks paid off as she flew into the gold—medal position with just one ski to come. the italian couldn't stand the american‘s time. mikaela shiffrin‘s first gold of the games confirmed. one down, three to go. while mikaela shiffrin is a new face, aksel lund svindal has been dominating on the slope for years. treated like the rock star in his home country, the 35—year—old was looking to go out with one final flourish in the men's downhill and he did just that. the run was anything but textbook. he lost balance midway through, but managed to regain his footing and come home in first. the oldest alpine skiing

champion in the history of the olympic games. and while svindal was breaking records on the slopes, this german pair were doing the same in theice german pair were doing the same in the ice arena. for the overnight they smashed their own world record to ta ke they smashed their own world record to take gold with a perfect routine. translation: after the first day we spoke to our trainers and they told us we spoke to our trainers and they told us we have nothing to lose. this morning we woke up like tigers. i woke up at six and said, today, we write history. i went on mice without feeling in my stomach and hopes that it would come through. for germany, jung chang just keeps getting better. a second goal on day six in the luge relay. top of the medals table with nine goals already, it means the germans have beaten their tally from sochi. and we aren't even halfway through. there are seven medal events on friday including the men's skeleton final, men's super—g,

and the women's slalom. as ever you can find all the details on our website, bbc.com/sport. football now and there was shock defeat for napoli in the europa league on thursday. the italian league leaders lost 3—1 at home to rb leipzig and now face an uphill battle to reach the last 16. colm harrison reports. napoli and rb leipzig were among the teams dropping out of the group and this time napoli took the lead through their midfielder early in the second half. but then the opponent scored twice for the germans in a 3—1 victory. borussia dortmund also saw of their italian opposition. they 13—2. —— won 2—3.

and then milan were the only italian tea m and then milan were the only italian team to win. fabio borini scored a 3-1 team to win. fabio borini scored a 3—1 victory in bulgaria for the seven time european champions. wins also the two other european champions. alan mcgregor saw the only goalfor the champions. alan mcgregor saw the only goal for the game champions. alan mcgregor saw the only goalfor the game in champions. alan mcgregor saw the only goal for the game in celtic. and two goals for olympic marseilles. comfortable wins for atletico madrid and arsenal, the way from home and both in scandinavia. atletico one 4—1 at copenhagen and mesut ozil scored their 3—1 victory against their swedish opponents. the former head coach of the australian national side, ange postecoglou, has backed his successor bert van marwyke to do well with the socceroos. postecoglou stepped down as head coach last november, just a week after australia qualified for the world cup finals. they'll face france, denmark and peru in the group stage

in russia, and postecoglu, who's preparing for the newj—league season with yokohama, says van marwijk was the best choice available to australia. i think it's a good appointment. he obviously knows the players, having coached against us, and i guess with the timeframe that was involved it is probably limited choices in terms of who they could appoint. guess the other chance for him now is make sure that the players in the team realise his potential for the world cup. we had a similar time last time but we had to change the whole team, so but we had to change the whole team, soi but we had to change the whole team, so i think he is taking over a pretty settled squad and a squad that's been through really difficult world cup campaigns and that stop them a lot, they've mature the lot andi them a lot, they've mature the lot and i really hope and believe they

can be successful at the world cup. roger federer is now one win away from regaining tennis‘s world number one ranking. he beat germany's philipp kohlscreiber in straight sets at the rotterdam open. it was a hard fought victory though. federer, who's the top seed at the dutch event, took the first set on a tiebreak. the 20—time grand slam champion then won the second 7—5 on his second match point. the 35—year—old is now one victory away from becoming the oldest number one by three years. the last time he held the position was back in november 2012. he'll play the dutchman robin haase in the quarter—finals. second seed grigor dimitrov is also through to the last eight for the second straight year, but he was made to work hard by serbia's world number 38 filip krayinovic. dimitrov eventually won a first set tiebreak and took the second 7—5. there was a shock at the qatar open, as defending champion karolina pliskova was knocked out

of the competition by 18—year—old american qualifier cici bellis. the world number five was the favourite but made a number of unforced errors. bellis took the first set on a tie—break and the second 6—3 for the biggest win of her career. the teenager will now play simona halep in the last eight. the world number two needed four match points to beat latvia's anastasija sevastova. but she eventually came through in straight sets 6—4, 6—3. number one seed caroline wozniacki had a relatively routine victory over monica niculescu, but was annoyed by her opponent's grunting in the match. so much so that she complained to the umpire, saying that niculescu was making noises to try and put her off. the dane will face angelique kerber in the last eight on friday. and garbine muguruza is also into the last eight. the spaniard, who is the fourth seed, didn't lose a single game

in the first set against romanian sorana kirstya and won the second 6—4. muguruza will play seventh seed france's caroline garcia in the quarter—finals. there arejoint leaders there are joint leaders after the first round of the genesis open in california. patrick can lay and finau are on par. it was a frustrating day for some of the big names. “— frustrating day for some of the big names. —— ca ntlay. frustrating day for some of the big names. —— cantlay. rory mcilroy is five shots off the lead after level par round of 71 and that total was matched by jordan par round of 71 and that total was matched byjordan spieth, who managed a chip in birdie of his own. this was at the par four fifth. and they are both one shot ahead of tiger woods, who is playing only his second pga tour events on the back operation last april. he carded a one over par round of 72, that six

shots off the lead. well, it was all right. i made a fewjust really silly bogeys out there, in particular number seven wasn't very good from the middle fairway. but overall i thought i hung in there well and grind overall i thought i hung in there welland grind —— overall i thought i hung in there well and grind —— grinded. overall i thought i hung in there welland grind —— grinded. i overall i thought i hung in there well and grind —— grinded. i got to two more par early. ifell back to even par and lost over the cricket and sri lankans chased their highest total in twe nty20 chased their highest total in twenty20 international star beat bangladesh by six wickets. set a target of 194 by the home side, they got 53 initially, after rahim gave bangladesh hope with a half—century the tourists could complete a clean sweep of the tour, having beaten

bangladesh in a test series. that's all we've got time for. you can get all we've got time for. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. from me and the rest of the team, thanks for joining website. from me and the rest of the team, thanks forjoining us. the weekend is fast approaching and the weather is looking mixed. a little mixed through the weekend. friday, for most of us, is looking absolutely fine. a lot of clear skies out there so there is plenty of sunshine on the way. but friday is going to start off pretty frosty. here is the satellite image. we have got some snow clouds across scotland right now. there's a cold airstream coming all the way from the arctic regions — from greenland, from iceland, tucking into scotland, so here we could see over the next couple of days or so quite a bit of snow. but that is going to be mostly across the hills.

so the towns and cities and coastal areas will be mostly getting rainfall. the rest of the country, the early hours, look absolutely clear, england and wales. even around plymouth the temperatures will be around freezing or below. barely above freezing. around +1. here is the pressure map for friday. this is an area of high pressure, the closer you are to this area of high pressure today the better the weather will be. for places like hull, norwich and london and southampton will have plenty of sunshine and actually a lot of sun further north as well. across scotland, more cloud and rain in the western isles, slightly stronger wind and thicker cloud also for northern ireland. it won't be cold, around about 10 degrees in the south and in the north, newcastle eight degress, aberdeen around seven. that's friday daytime. let's look at friday night. into the early hours of saturday and the weather front is approaching, thick cloud on the tip of cornwall through wales into western scotland there will be some rain around too. snow mostly across the hills, first thing on saturday morning in the north of the pennines, the highlands as well.

then saturday itself we have weather fronts grazing northern parts of the uk, so this is where we are most likely to have the thickest of the cloud, there will be some, again, wintry showers around across scotland but for most of us the weather on saturday actually doesn't look too bad at all. some hazy sunshine around and those temperatures will be just about double figures in the south, seven or eight in the north. a lot more cloud in the atlantic. that will be coming our way, so come sunday, thick cloud right across the country here, a very different day, out of the two days, saturday is the sunnier day, sunday will be more cloudy with outbreaks of rain getting into cardiff, birmingham, belfast. maybe a bit of brightness in the north—east of scotland and east anglia for a time. bye— bye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america

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