tv Sport Today BBC News August 28, 2018 1:45am-2:01am BST
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halep. and india's neeraj chopra smashes the field to claim the men's javelin gold at the asian games. welcome to the programme. it was supposed to be the night manchester united bounced back but tottenham hotspur had other ideas as they recorded a rare victory at old trafford by 3—0 in the premier league. lucas moura was outstanding for spurs scoring twice after harry kane's opener to give the londoners only their third league win at old trafford in 27 attempts. it piles further pressure on united managerjose mourinho, who applauded those home supporters who'd stayed until the end. but two defeats in their first three games makes this the worst start to a season for united since the 92—93 campaign, and afterwards, mourinho walked out of his press conference after getting irritated with a reporter. no, just to finish, do you know what
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was the result? 3—0. 3—0. do you know what this means? 3—0! but also mean three premierships, and i won more premierships alone than the other 19 managers together. three for me and two for them. respect... respect, respect, respect. massive victory for us. very proud with the performance. so good. it's difficult to win here. against these kinds of teams, manchester united at old trafford. also happy with the performance but in the first half they play better than us and created more chances than us, but in the second half we did better and the most important, we scored goals. there were a couple of games
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in la liga on monday. athletic bilbao drew 2—2 with huesca whilst celta vigo were 2—1 winners at levante. and in italy's serie a, roma had to come from 3—1 down at half time to snatch a 3—3 draw with atalanta. emiliano rigoni scored twice to give the visitors an impressive lead, but this late strike from kostas manolas salvaged a point for roma with eight minutes left. qatar's al sadd fought back from a goal down to defeat iranian side esteghlal 3—1 in the first leg of their afc champions league quarter—final tie in tehran on monday. baghdad bounedjah got his side's second goal, confidently finishing after former barcelona midfielder xavi provided the through ball. the return leg takes place in doha on the 17th of september. she's the world number one, but simona halep‘s us open lasted just an hour and 15 minutes after she became the first women's top seed in the open era to lose in the first round.
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estonia's kaia kanepi was too good in the end as she won 6—2 6—4 to register the biggest shock of the round so far. bbc sport's paul frostick was watching. the opening day of the last tennis major of 2018, and fans at flushing meadows in new york were in typically good spirits. just the whole atmosphere. it's festive, it's fun, walking around... having my signature cocktail! it's really cool signature cocktail! it's really cool, ijust signature cocktail! it's really cool, i just really signature cocktail! it's really cool, ijust really want to see, like, every tennis player i can. lviv, the vibe is awesome. beautiful. the people, atmosphere, fantastic. the guy with the camera, or some. someone who could have used some of that good cheer was world number one simona halep. having lost in the opening round last year here,
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she soon found herself a set down against unseeded estonian kaia kanepl against unseeded estonian kaia kanepi. 0na against unseeded estonian kaia kanepi. on a frustrating afternoon for the romanian, there were the odd sign of her number one status. playing her first match on the newly renovated louis armstrong court, the french open champion failed to sustain any kind of service rhythm and her usually stout defence was no match for kanepi. paul frostick, bbc news. actually i expected her to play like that without fear and hitting the ball is really strong. i cannot say much about this match, just that i didn't really feel the ball. but also she played really strong and pushed me back. so it was tough. it is tough. but it's ok.
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i think there are not many players any more who are like leading the game. i mean, everybody can beat anybody on a good day. that's what i also thought, i know simona is number one, she plays constantly really well, but i can play well too. defending champion sloane stephens started her quest for a second straight us 0pen trophy strongly. she eased past evgeniya rodina in two sets. britain's andy murray enjoyed a winning return to grand slam tennis as he beat australia's james duckworth. it was murray's first best—of—five—set match in 1a months after having surgery on a long—term hip injury. he won in four sets. i actually felt like i could have moved better, i struggled a little bit with that early in the match. i
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don't know for what reason, extremely lively conditions out there. it was a lot quicker for me a nyway there. it was a lot quicker for me anyway than what we've been practising in since we got here. i felt a little bit slow at the beginning and then the positive was actually towards the end of the match i made some quite good moves. in a repeat of this year's wimbledon first round match, stan wawrinka once again got the better of eighth seed grigor dimitrov at the first hurdle of a grand slam. a straight sets victory. poland's michal kwiatkowski holds the overall lead in the early stages of the vuelta espana as italy's elia viviani won monday's third stage. viviani came out on top in a sprint finish in alhaurin de la torre, beating off his compatriot giacomo nizzolo and world champion peter sagan. team sky's kwiatkowski still has a 1a—second lead at the top
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afterfinishing in the main bunch. tottenham will be keeping an eager eye on south korea's progress in the asian games. that's because their striker son heung min will have to return to his homeland for 21 months military service next year if south korea don't win the football competition. 0nly athletes who win a gold medal at the olympics or the asian games are excused and as it stands son is still on course to avoid the call up. south korea beat 10—man uzbekistan 11—3 after extra time to reach the semi—finals. they'll face vietnam or syria in the last four on wednesday. staying with the asian games, in the athletics india's neeraj chopra smashed the field to claim the men's javelin gold at the games by posting a personal best. the commonwealth games champion cleared a distance of 88.06 metres with his third throw, which was more than enough to win gold. it was nearly six metres clear of his closest competitor. in men's highjump, china's wang yu leapt 2.30m
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to claim the gold. afterwards, despite finishing first, wang admitted to being disappointed, claiming that on a good day he can easily clear 2.a0m. vietnam's bui thi thu thao won the women's long jump with her season's best leap of 6.55m. that was vietnam's first athletics gold at the asian games. qatari abder—rahman samba broke the games record in the men's a00m hurdles. the mauritanian—born finished his run in 117.66 seconds. in the women's event, nigerian—born 0luwakemi adekoya, representing bahrain, also achieved a games record time of 511.48 seconds on her way to clinching the gold. now cricket, and afghanistan have take a 1—0 lead in their 3—match one—day series against ireland. gulbadin naib hit 64
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as the visitors posted a score of 227/9 in their 50 overs in belfast. in reply, ireland could only muster 198 all out, despite a half—century from andy balbirnie. a recap of our top story: jose mourinho walked out of his press conference after manchester united lost to tottenham 3—0, telling a reporter they were being disrespectful with their question and reminding the room that he'd previously won three league titles, and the rest of the current premier league managers had won just two put together. two defeats out of three for united, spurs joint two defeats out of three for united, spursjoint top with two defeats out of three for united, spurs joint top with three wins out of three. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, chetan pathak, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello.
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as high pressure builds, the end of this week looks pretty quiet weatherwise. until then, though, a couple of weather systems to affect us. this is the big picture as tuesday begins. low pressure to the north—west of us already starting to feed some rain in towards the north—west of scotland. elsewhere, quiet start to the week. this weather system eventually will make an impact. so for this week's weather, there's a chance of rain. not everybody‘s going to see it and it may not amount to too much. there will also be quite a bit of dry and occasionally sunny weather particularly later this week, as we'll see. now, these are your starting numbers for tuesday morning. temperatures into double figures for many. maybe one or two mist and fog patches around. fair amount of cloud, don't expect too much in the way of morning sunshine. a breeze and outbreaks of rain into the western isles of scotland and this system is only very slowly pushing further south—east during the day. whereas ahead of that,
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we keep a good deal of cloud, a few breaks and a sunny spells to come through. outbreaks of rain will feed into the northern isles through the day and this weather system starting to see one or two showers breaking out. the rain will start to feed into the western side of northern ireland, leaving the best of the sunshine here in the east. across england and wales, after some misty and murky weather to begin with, some bright or sunny spells may keep low cloud into the south—west of england, one or two spots of drizzle. temperatures into the high teens, a few spots in the low 20s, average for the time of year. into tuesday night, we take some outbreaks of rain through scotland and northern ireland, and we introduce the possibility of seeing some thundery showers working into parts of southern england, maybe clipping parts of the midlands, into east anglia, certainly into the south—east by wednesday morning. slightly cooler behind the weather front as temperatures dip into single figures. for many, though, again,
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double figures as wednesday begins. two weather systems to look out for the big picture on wednesday. this one clipping into south—eastern parts moving away on this one tracking south—east across the uk. so eventually during wednesday, it looks like we'll say goodbye to this weather system, but still with some outbreaks of rain before it clears. but look how this weather system is weakening as it moves further south—east. one or two showers left behind. the cooler and fresher ad behind with sunny spells and showers to western scotland, one or two for northern ireland. temperatures into the high teens, just a few scraping into the low 20s, fairly close to average, maybe a little below in some spots. and then ny the end of the week, it's all looking very quiet because pressure is building, things are settling down. still a fair of cloud, though. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: a new nafta? president trump says he's reached agreement with mexico over a new trade deal. it has been a long time, and this is something that is very special for our manufacturers and for ourfarmers from both countries. myanmar‘s government rejects claims of "genocidal intent" made
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