hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: wada lift the suspension of russia's anti—doping agency in a move that is labelled as treacherous by those opposed to it. tiger woods eagles the last hole to hold a share of the lead after the first round of the tour championship in atlanta. defending champion caroline wozniacki is out of the pan pacific open in tokyo after losing to camila giorgi. hello there and welcome to the programme, where we start with the decision by the world anti doping agency to lift the suspension of russia's anti—doping agency. rusada have been banned for the best part of three years after evidence of state sponsored doping on a mass scale, but they've now been reinstated, subject to certain conditions, with several leading anti—doping bodies and athletes objecting to the move.

here's our sports editor dan roan. ever since the complaints review committee of wada lost the group recommended that its executive committee take this decision, it has been on the cards. having said that, i think it is unquestionably the most divisive and controversial decision that wada has made in its history because it is in defiance of an unprecedented outcry by athletes in the west and senior figures in the anti— doping committee, all of whom were asking for the very least, a postponement of this decision. the decision for that is twofold. one, the scale of the crime that russia was originally accused of. remember, they were found to have subverted they were found to have subverted the entire anti— doping system. this was a remarkable anti— doping conspiracy, state—sponsored, went to the very top, 30 sports, sabotaging events as big as the 2012 london games and yet here they are as a result of this decision, back in the

fold. it is representative of a readmission of russia to its national sport. they can bid for major sports events, their track and field team and paralympic team will $0011 field team and paralympic team will soon be to stroll —— full strength. the second reason is how this was done. we release —— revealed in the last few days, not once, but twice, attem pts last few days, not once, but twice, atte m pts to last few days, not once, but twice, attempts to compromise by senior leaders at wada with the russians over two key criteria and it is that that has sparked such uproar among many athletes. to golf and on the pga tour tiger woods eagled the final hole of his first round at the tour championship in atlanta to hold a share of the lead with american compatriot rickie fowler. the 42 year old, a 1k time major winner, is on 5 under and playing this event for the first time since 2013 is one stroke ahead of world number one justin rose, who's second in the fedex cup standings. if the englishman wins the tournament he's then guaranteed to win the $10 million bonus, while northern ireland's rory mcilroy is also nicely placed on 3 under, but it could've been better after he dropped shots having birdied four of the first six holes. 18 was nice. i hammered that drive

up 18 was nice. i hammered that drive up the left side and it was nice to see it not in the rough and i had a five would there. in order for me to get it there, a hat to not have my five wood in the air. one it hit its peak i started to feel good and it ended up on the green, had a good look at eagle, it took forever for that part to stockbroking. rain coming from the west but once i snagged it was going straight right. now to tennis and in just over two hours, the first of the pan pacific open quarter—finals heads out in tokyo. home favourite and us open champion naomi osaka features later on friday.

but on thursday, defending champion caroline wozniacki crashed out. beaten by a player who's she's all to familiar with, as chris mitchell reports. she may be ranked 35 places below her, but pan pacific open —— camila giorgi knows how to be caroline wozniacki. she fancied her chances in tokyo, racing through the first set, but met more resistance in the second as the defending champion battled back. caroline wasn't about to relate couche—tard without a fight to the breakup in the decider and the former world number one looked in control, but her opponent had other ideas. after holding serve, camila giorgi broke back immediately and won six of the remaining eight games of. —— gains. facing her in the quarter—finals

will be another formal world one. despite slipping down the rankings, victoria azarenka is at play inform. —— a player in. if the belarusian had a comfortable that tree as she dominated the match from the baseline. the two—time grand slam champion was rarely troubled as she eased her way into the last eight. joining her is donna vecic. having lost the first set, joanna cotter raced into a 4—1 lead in the second before concluding with a series of u nforced before concluding with a series of unforced errors. the unseeded croatian, who beats sloane stephens in the opening round, faces the second seed, caroline garcia next. now to football, where five time winners sevilla got their europa league season off to a flying start with a 5—1 home win over standard liege, which saw eva banega and wissam ben yedder both notch two each. elsewhere, rangers in theirfirst european group match for seven years snatched a 2—2 draw away

to spanish side villarreal, while chelsea were 1—0 winners in greece over paok salonika, with willian scoring the games only goal in the 7th minute. arsenal under unai emery, a three time winner of this competition, accounted for ukrainian side vorskla poltava in a less than capacity stadium in north london. we wa nt we want to do a good way in this europa league, buti we want to do a good way in this europa league, but i think it is step—by—step. i ensure that little by little we will get more supporters here i asked. —— by us. anthony joshua and alexander povetkin have faced off in london ahead of their world heavyweight title fight at the weekend. the bout takes place in front of an expected sellout crowd at wembley stadium, with the weigh in on friday. there's been no trash talk in the build up and russian povetkin

has promised fans a good fight whilejoshua is looking forward to getting back to fighting at the london venue. last time i was here i was in the same mindset. i thought that was going to be two rangy boxes jabbing all night but it didn't turn out that way, it turned out completely different. with povetkin, i know he has got the same mindset, tough fight, everything is on the line, he wa nts to fight, everything is on the line, he wants to become champion and u nfortu nately wants to become champion and unfortunately it has to be me that has to defend it and fight him back. so let's rock and roll, nothing to lose and everything to game. —— to gain. afghanistan beat bangladesh by 136 runs in the asia cup on thursday and will play pakistan in the super fours on friday, again in abu dhabi. pakistan will be an altogether tougher prospect while india who beat them in the last match of the group stage play bangladesh at the same time in dubai. in the super fours, each team will play three matches and the top

two then meet in the final. the mood hasn't changed much. i think we all knew that the group stages, it was important to win the first game and guarantee qualification. then when india beat hong kong i thought it guarantee qualification as well. the hard work and the real work will start from that, because what ever we do will have repercussions. a win will benefit us and lose will cost us. the mood is still positive and we are looking to play the cup final against whoever comes up. england rugby union coach eddiejones has named his 36 man group ahead of the upcoming november internationals but there was no place for danny cipriani. jones insisted it is form that kept cipriani out of the squad, not the fly—half‘s arrest at a nightclub during gloucester‘s pre—season tour. cipriani played in england's third test victory over south africa earlier in the year and our rugby reporter chrisjones has been speaking to the england coach asking how he came to this decision. do you think maybe his form for

leicester has been apparent to danny cipriani's, what we are seeing it from the. it is comparative. that is thejudgement i have made. on danny's performances for gloucester, do you want more performances from him? you think you will focus on the flashy passes, will whereas you want an 80 minute performance was make i think i had just discussed that, the areas he needs to work on, he understands that and he will go away and work on them. i am sure he will. rugby players at next year's world cup will have to cover up their tattoos to avoid offending fans in japan. tattoos have long been associated with the notorious yakuza crime syndicates, and people are expected to wear vests when using gyms or pools. body art is particularly popular with pacific islanders, while new zealand have already said the all blacks will comply with the rules. in the nfl, the new yorkjets and

the cleveland browns, it is currently scoreless with for a half minutes remaining in the opening quarter. that is also now. —— that is all for now. hello again. friday is set to be cooler and fresher, with sunshine and blustery showers. before then, storm bronagh has really been packing a punch across england and wales. a good couple of inches of rain in places, producing some flooding and particularly squally winds of 60mph or so. very squally winds on that cold front as it moves away from the south—east. the centre of the storm is out into the north sea. still some very windy conditions early in the morning across the coasts of north—east england. the rain pushes away and then we're left with this north—westerly wind, meaning sunshine and blustery showers. quite heavy showers actually from time to time, and maybe some thunder in there too. a few getting into southern parts

of england, but the bulk of them further north. look at those temperatures, back down again, numbers falling across england and wales, it will feel cooler and fresher everywhere. the winds lively as well, easing down a bit as we head through the evening and overnight. a lot of the showers fading away, a few going in the far north of scotland, cloud increasing in the south—west, but on the whole, a much chillier night with widely temperatures in the mid—single figures. into the first half of the weekend, wetter weather in the far north of scotland with some showers, and then we've got a slice of sunshine, but the cloud is increasing and thickening from the south—west, and it looks like we've got outbreaks of rain into the south—west of england, wales and the south—east maybe in the afternoon. temperatures are disappointing to say the least. 13—15 degrees at best. second half of the weekend, still a lot of uncertainty. looks like we'll see an area, quite a deep one, low pressure pushing its way across the uk. the centre could be further north. the winds could be

further north as well. but at the moment, it looks like england and wales will get the worst of it. some heavy rain pushing its way across england and wales, and some very strong winds, particularly as the rain starts to clear away. as we move into monday, that wet and windy weather should have pushed away into the continent, leaving us with some much drier conditions. there'll be a few showers around, still quite windy in northern and eastern areas, lighter winds towards the south—west and perhaps a top temperature of 15 or 16 degrees. big changes on the way for next week. instead of the jet stream being right over the uk, driving in all these storms, it gets pushed further north, and that allows high pressure to build in. so that's what's settling things down, and certainly changing the look and the feel of the weather as we head into next week. so tuesday, a lot of dry weather. by this stage, it won't be as windy. light winds for the most part. those are the temperatures, 15 to perhaps 17 degrees. but it will be quite a bit cooler at night. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to

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