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hello, you're watching bbc news, i'm olly foster at the bbc sport centre, these are our sportsday headlines tonight. stadium delays — tottenham won't play in their new home until at least the end of october. more murray misery, he's knocked out of the cincinatti open in the first round. and the homecoming queen — the european treble, but what next for dina asher—smith? hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm olly foster. hello there, we'll start with that tottenham news that has broken this evening. their state of the art 62,000 seater stadium will not be ready for its scheduled first match next month. the club say that there are issues with the critical safety systems which will delay the necessary test events required.
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spurs were due to play their first game there against liverpool on the 15th september but that and the cardiff city match on the 6th october and an nfl fixture on the 14th will be switched to wembley where they played all their home games last season. at least one champions league fixture will also have to be moved. spurs had already been given permission to play next saturday's home game against fulham at wembley. the spurs chairman daniel levy has said in a statement, "at the start of the project we asked for your support during what we knew would be a complex and challenging build and now we ask for your continued patience and forbearance. " this is going to be some embarrassment for the club because rumours had been circulating for weeks about the progress of the stadium and of spiralling costs,
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towards the £1 billion mark, adding towards the £1 billion mark, adding to that zero signings during the tra nsfer to that zero signings during the transfer window and fans have grown restless. there has been a lot of anger from spurs fans on social media, this from the tottenham hotspor supporters trust following various rumours this afternoon, we appreciate this clarification from @spurs0fficial. we are speaking with the club board tomorrow to discuss practical implications and mitigation for the thousands of st holders and fans affected by this news. some will be asking for a money back from season tickets, those who do not want to go and watch matches at wembley. andy murray has been beaten at the cincinnati masters in the first round. the former world number one lost in three sets to the 16th seed lucas pouille of france. he was playing only his fourth tournament of the year and his second hard—court event of the season after pulling out of the washington open. he missed last week's toronto masters as he continues his slow comeback from a hip operation. many of you knew dina
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asher smith was good but as many would not have realised just how good. many of you knew dina asher smith was good but as many would not have realised just how good. britain's sprinter picked up three gold medals at the european championships in berlin. she won the 100, 200 and anchored the sprint relay to victory on sunday night. now she says she has her sights set on tokyo 2020. sara orchard reports. the sprint legend michaeljohnson says she should be challenging for a major honours at global events. the 100 metres title wasn't enough. the 200 metres title was already an incredible double. but the relay
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gold, completing her perfect championships. as her plane touched down back in london, british athletics latest sprint star was having to adjust to the attention.|j don't think i will get used to this kind of thing but it is heart—warming and positive to see not only that so many people are taking an interest in athletics, but they want to see a british female sprinters do so well. she was without question the most professional, the most prepared, the most calm, just went about her business and job of winning medals. the full—time olympic champion michaeljohnson has described dina asher—smith is the complete package and has backtracked to go on and win world and olympic titles. next year's world championships and the olympic games, this is a true
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contender. she is one that is other athletes training, they will have dina asher—smith in mind. athletes training, they will have dina asher-smith in mind. that kind of endorsement is priceless but at the same time ijust have to of endorsement is priceless but at the same time i just have to focus on running fast and making sure that ican turn on running fast and making sure that i can turn has forecast into a reality, because they want to win world titles you have to bring your a game every time. the 22-year-old started her sprinting at age eight. in the last year, she has come back from a broken foot and completed a history degree from kings college london last summer. although she will be back on the racetrack in birmingham this weekend it is no surprise that for now all she wants to do is... i'm going to go and sleep! i haven't had much recently so sleep! i haven't had much recently so i'm going to go and live forfour days! i so i'm going to go and live forfour days! lam so i'm going to go and live forfour days! iamjoking, so i'm going to go and live forfour days! i am joking, i so i'm going to go and live forfour days! iamjoking, i have training to do. having one a european sprint treble, she will not be short of dreams. tiger woods will have to wait until next month to find out if he'll get a wild card
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to play in the ryder cup. the us have confirmed the first eight members of the team who have qualified by right for the event outside paris in late september. but woods has stormed into contention finishing in the top ten at the open, then second at last night's us pga championship he is back into the top 30 for the first time in 4 yea rs. and for us captainjim furyk — who has four extra picks to make, the case for woods is difficult to ignore. what is important is how well tiger woods has played, sixth place in the open championship and the second place in the pga. ithink open championship and the second place in the pga. i think the word he used was trending, his game is trending, so it is great to see him playing well. for me, the numbers are nice, good to look at, but not always the most important. we want the players who are going to help us
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be successful. here are the automatic picks. three time major winner jordan speith, webb simpson, world number one dustin johnson, justin thomas, bubba watson, rickie fowler, patrick reed, and the newly crowned pga champ, and two—time us open champion brooks koepka. woods is one of furyk‘s five vice captains, so will travel no matter what but fitness permitting he is almost certainly going to take part. england have named an unchanged 13 man squad for the third test against india starting on saturday at trent bridge. it means there's no place for ben stokes — whose court case for affray at bristol crown court continues. his replacement chris woakes should retain his place in the starting eleven after a maiden test century at lord's. seamerjamie porter is also named with moeen ali to contend with adil rashid for the spinners berth. day one of the european paralympic swimming championships have finished in dublin — with success in the pool for scot quinn and louis fidds. kate grey was watching. the british team have certainly
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impressed on the first night of these championships, winning six medals including gold for scotland in the sb 1a medals including gold for scotland in the sb 14100 metres breaststroke. he successfully defended his title in what was a thrilling race that saw him baulk victory in the final stages. his team—mate sneaking in for the silver. for me, these guys are always better, much stronger and heavier than me, so choose to me that it doesn't matter size or weight, iam that it doesn't matter size or weight, i am a fighter. that is why i always look at myself as the flying scot, that is what i see myself as, the flying scot. that was quickly followed by another bold by
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louise fidds. she beat the paralympic champion from spain and her team—mates. paralympic champion from spain and her team-mates. i got quite nervous when i saw her ahead, but i came back fast. i was nervous but it worked out so that is good. and britain's first middle of the night went to american victor in the individual medley when she took silver and also a bronze for ellie robinson in the 50 metres freestyle. looking ahead to tomorrow, the paralympic champion ellie simmonds will be in action and she will face tough competition from rising british star is grace hardy. from dublin at the european para championships. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead
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to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate proctor, political correspondent of evening standard and dia chakravarty, brexit editor of the telegraph. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. the daily telegraph talks about jeremy corbyn's extraordinary row with the israeli prime minister robert harris tribute. explain what all of this is about and why the prime minister of israel is criticising the labour party leader. jeremy corbyn has laid a wreath, it
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has finally emerged, to a group of palestinian terrorists, but the complication is over exactly who he leads the wreath for. this is back in 2014 saw quite a long time ago in tunisia. so it has been very confusing as to who he was actually laying it for but it has emerged today that there was a least late for the terrorists who were part of the 1972 munich attack on israeli athletes, and that has led to an absolute massive outrage today which has led to the israeli president benjamin netanyahu has led to the israeli president benjamin neta nyahu getting has led to the israeli president benjamin netanyahu getting involved and saying it is completely unacceptable and he should not have done it. i think forjeremy corbyn to have received attention from benjamin netanyahu to have received attention from benjamin neta nyahu really to have received attention from benjamin netanyahu really does elevate this difficulty that he is
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having at the moment with the row over anti—semitism and it elevates it to another level entirely. over anti—semitism and it elevates it to another level entirelylj don't it to another level entirely.” don't think a world leader has got involved in this way. is this a story that started with the daily maildigging story that started with the daily mail digging this story that started with the daily maildigging this up story that started with the daily mail digging this up originally, this picture, holding the wreath. the story started last year if you think about it, so there are so many different conflicting reports from all sorts of sources. it is really difficult for anybody to get our heads around it. it seemed, in 2014, after visiting tunisia funny conference, he came back and himself wrote an article for the morning starjust a few days after they came back from tunisia saying that wreaths had been laid on the graves of others killed by mossad agents in paris in 1991. there were no reports of any mossad agents killing anyone in 1991 although there was a
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high—profile case of alleged terrorists being killed by mossad agents in 1992 in paris, so there was some indication from mr corbyn in his own words, and this is a direct quote, that he says graves we re direct quote, that he says graves were visited. but last year during the election campaign, one story in the election campaign, one story in the telegraph where this was brought up, thatjeremy the telegraph where this was brought up, that jeremy corbyn actually denied having laid a wreath at these graves, but we have actually got another clip from sky news where she asked jeremy corbyn at the time in 2017 whether he was there commemorating these alleged terrorists, and he says he wasn't there. today, he said that originally when the daily mail story came out, we didn't hear anything from jeremy corbyn for a long time but after today, we heard that he
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