coming up on this programme... it's a record equalling gold for marcel hirscher in what could be his last world championships. ramos sees red as real lose ground in la liga's title race with a home defeat to girona. the sweet taste of victory,gael monfils winds his first tournament in over a year with victory in rotterdam. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. could this be the perfect ending to a stellar career? the austrian marcel hirscher said this year's world championships might be his last. in which case, he's gone out with a bang. he won the final event of this year's games in sweden by taking gold in the men's slalom — and that was a record—equalling seventh world title. nick parrot reports... if you want to see a master class and slalom racing, marcel hirscher is the man to watch. the defending

champion the balances risk and control, getting closer to the gate than others there. and accelerating out of every turn. the austrian pass first run was so good, only one viable code to get close. alexi won the next event a claim bronze. a side from the frenchman, nobody else could get within a second of the top spot. but his final run would prove decisive. perhaps knowing he needed something special to win, piled on depression, despite the course having been set by the french coach, he didn't do a any favours. his split time had him leading until that mistake. remarkably, he recovered to go third in the standings, but there was still one man to go, and he was up for the fight. marcel hirscher felt unwell four days ago, but there was no sign of wea kness four days ago, but there was no sign of weakness as he went on to claim his third world title.” of weakness as he went on to claim his third world title. i knew that alexis would not delay. at the first

part, i tried to push it really hard. then there were two parts where it was bumpy. —— was not in the lead. and i try to stay safe to the lead. and i try to stay safe to the finish line. it is unbelievable. after 13, 17 and now 19, may be my last world championship, so finally getting to have another gold medal. it was a great day for austria to producing the first clean sweep on podium 1987. —— on the men's podium. on to football, and real mdrid missed the chance to regain second place in la liga when they lost at home to girona on sunday. they remain nine points behind the leaders barcelona. a wind would have taken them a point clear of atletico madrid — and they took the lead through casemiro mid—way through the first—half. but girona turned it round with goals from stuani and portu after the break — and held on for a famous win.

real madrid finished the game with ten men when skipper sergio ramos was sent off in the 90th minute. that was the 25th red card of his cloud career... translation: it is a shame. we lost out on points, our rivals both won this weekend. and we have taken a step backwards because we were on a good run. we managed to recover many points in the race to catch barcelona but now we have fallen further back. elsewhere, fourth—placed sevilla suffered a shock 3—0 defeat at relegation—threatened villarreal. alaves then missed the chance to overtake sevilla when they drew 1—1 at real betis. valencia were held to a goalless draw by espanyol. in italy, napoli were frustrated in their bid to close the gap onjuventus at the top of the table. they were held to a goalless draw by torino. so napoli still 13 points behind the unbeaten league leaders. third—placed inter milan beat sampdoria 2—1 — with all the goals coming in a five—minute spell late in the game.

ivan perisic there for inter setting up danilo d'ambrosio for the opening goal. two minutes later manolo gabbiadini equalised for the visitors — before radja nainggolan drilled home from the edge of the penalty area to wind it for inter. to win it for inter. they're now four points clear of their city rivals milan. elsewhere, lazio missed the chance to move up to fifth when they lose 2—1 at genoa. there were also wins for empoli, fiorentina and udinese. in the uk there were three more ties in the fifth round of the fa cup — with places in the quarterfinals upforgrabs. wolverhampton wanderers are among the teams who made it through to monday's draw. ivan cavaleiro scored the only goal of the game as they won at championship side bristol city to reach the quarterfinals for the first time in 16 years. the first half was very good. we played very well. well organised and good combinations and a lot of chances that can kill the game and put the game to bed. knowing that

after that we were going to suffer, and bristol with a tough team. and when they start putting the balls around the box, it is very tough and they put us against the ropes. i congratulate my boys because they we re very congratulate my boys because they were very bright today and i think were very bright today and i think we are very happy. —— a very brave today. crystal palace — who reached the final three years ago — are also through to the last eight. they won at third—tier doncaster rovers where ghana internationaljeffrey schlupp opened the scoring after only eight minutes. and max meyer sealed the victory in first—half stoppage time. 2—0 the final score. certainly even for a long period but luckily we scored two good goals and that's i was through. we have to be very happy with that and these matches are real behind the skin because people don't give the team the credit they're supposed to get. we did, we watch them and i said before get the game this is going to before get the game this is going to bea before get the game this is going to be a very tough game. they are a

good site and they will cause problems and they did. luckily, we we re problems and they did. luckily, we were ready for it and we held out and scored a couple of good goals. in the day's other game, swansea city came from a goal down to beat fellow—championship side brentford 4—1. the last fifth round tie is on monday with chelsea at home to manchester united. in germany, eintracht frankfurt missed the chance to move up to fifth in the bundesliga when they were held to a 1—1 draw by third—placed borussia monchengladbach. danny da costa gave frankfurt the lead on the stroke of half—time, but the visitors equalised eight minutes from the end with a goal from their swiss midfielder denis zakaria. bayer leverkusen took advantage of frankfurt's slip. in the day's other game, they beat fortuna dusseldorf 2—0 to move up to fifth in the table. in the netherlands, ajax thrashed the bottom side breda to close the gap on the leaders psv eindoven. dusan tadic scored twice in a 5—0 wind. twice in a 5—0 win. ajax are now four points behind the leaders. in brazil, violence erupted outside the maracana stadium ahead

of the regional guanabara cup final between vasco da gama and fluminense. police opened fire with tear gas and rubber bullets, injuring several vasco da gama supporters in the process. fluminense had wanted to have their fans sitting on the south side of the stadium — but their request was denied. tournament organisers ordered the game to be played behind closed doors — despite the fact that 30,000 tickets had already been sold. fans were eventually allowed in for the second half of the match which vasco da gama won by a goal—to—nil — to claim the guanabara cup for the 13th time. tennis — gael monfils has won the rotterdam open to claim his first title in more than a year. he was up against switzerland's stan wawrinka who was playing in his first final since having two knee operations in 2017. monfils — who's slipped to 33 in the world rankings — was the runner—up in this tournament three years ago, but this time came through in three sets to beat the 2015 champion.

monfils took the decider 6—2 to claim his first tour title since the qatar open 13 months ago. it's been tough for me since last year, but now to be back, to win, it's been a lot for me. it is a step. my calls always told me it is a step and we are working to put ourselves in those situations. the first time, or going to have some more and if we can win more titles definitely we will try. denny hamlin won the daytona 500 for the second time in four years — and led a clean sweep forjoe gibbs racing, with kyle busch second and erikjones third. the race was stopped twice for nearly a0 minutes owing to a flurry of late accidents. paul menard triggered this 21—car crash with 10 laps to go after one of the re—starts. amazingly no one was injured in this incident as the race was red—flagged yet again.

there were further stoppages before hamlin finally took the chequered flag to reclaim the daytona title he won three years ago. it's the 33rd top—level win of his career. finally, some cricket news — and the veteran west indies batsman chris gayle has announced that he'll retire from one—day internationals after this year's world cup in england and wales. he's due to play his first international since lastjuly when the west indies‘ one—day series against england gets under way on wednesday. 39—year—old gayle was part of the west indies team that won the icc champions trophy in 200a. he's scored 9,727 runs in 284 odis — to date, and needs another 677 to overtake brian lara as the west indes' all—time scorer in one—ay internationals. in one—day internationals. he'll be hoping to break that record befiore he retires. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. from me in the rest of the team, see

you very soon. goodbye. —— and the rest. well, it's felt a lot like spring in the past few days with temperatures getting into the mid, even high teens. looks like the temperatures will ease back down a little bit for at least two or three days before they will start rising once again. and, in fact, by the weekend, it could be exceptionally mild across the uk. in the short term, clouds are drifting across the country. these are weather fronts. also some showers in the forecast, too, so not a completely dry picture on monday. in fact, the showers getting into many western parts, some across scotland too. they could be short and sharp through the course of monday, but i think as far as early monday morning is concerned,

many of us still having a lot of dry weather. and very mild. when you step out there monday morning, 9 degrees in the south of the country, that's closer to our daytime temperature. that's the start of the day. so, monday, lots of showers, i think, across western scotland. bit of a breeze here around the coasts. hail and thunder is possible. and one or two showers possible also further south. but the further east you are, the better the weather it will be. i suspect newcastle and hull will probably stay dry all day and quite bright. here's tuesday's weather forecast. another weather front is approaching, but ahead of it, the winds are blowing out of the southwest. so, a very mild direction. so despite the cloud and the rain, it's still going to feel pretty mild in some western areas of the uk. i think it will eventually cloud over, at least turn quite hazy, across eastern and southern areas but it will be dry here. temperatures will still get up to 11 or 12 degrees, but rain expected for belfast and western parts of scotland in the day. and then overnight, that rain

is going to sweep through. now this is wednesday's weather forecast here. notice the mild air reaching further north. so, that means that the temperatures will start to creep back up again on wednesday. the morning is looking a little cloudy and rainy. this picture here is in the morning. and then in the afternoon, that weather front moves out of the picture, the skies should clear up a little bit and those temperatures will start rising. we're expecting 13 degrees, maybe even 1a in one or two spots on wednesday. come thursday, that's when the winds really switch direction. they'll start coming in from the south, so the clouds will also break up. it'll start really warming up. in fact, widely by friday, those temperatures will be in the mid—teens, notjust in the south but even in the very far north of the uk. scotland could get up to 16 as early as thursday or friday. and friday into saturday, this southerlyjet stream — extremely southerly jet stream — will scoop up the warm air, and it could get up to 18 degrees.

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