the uspga championship, heads out in new york on thursday. and in terrible conditions pascal ackermann wins stage 5 of the giro d'italia — his second stage win of the year's first grand tour. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the footballing news that ajax have won the dutch eredivisie for the 34th time. confirmation came on the last day of the season and helps wipe away the disappointment of losing out in the champions league semi—final last week. colm harrison has more. ajax went into the final round knowing that only a freak set of results would deny them the title and while it took a while to get going, the outcome was never in doubt after lasse schone scored after 37 minutes. the first of three

goals in 30 minutes spell. de graafschap‘s battle to avoid relegation goes by the player. nicolas tagliafico restored the lead. tadic needing to goals for a share of the golden bird, scored twice. he has 28 for the season. ajax the feed other teams craved never eventuated. both clubs will be in the champions league again next season in the champions league again next season but it is ajax who qualify as eredivisie champions, just reward for a team that has shown abroad and at home. feyenoord won 4—1 away to fortuna sittard but the biggest talking point was what happened after a penalty was handed down against the hosts.

kai heerings was ruled to have deliberately handballed. the decision went to var, he was given his marching orders and steven berghuis stepped up to take the penalty. he tried a panenka — named after the czech captain antonin panenka who scored to win the 1976 european championship final against germany — unfortunately it didn't work out quite as well, but his side did win 4—1 to finish third, while sittard avoided the relegation play off by a point. lazio have won the coppa italia final after they found two late goals to deny atalanta their first trophy since 1963. midfielder sergej milinkovic—savic came off the bench to head in the opener eight minutes from time, before forward joaquin correa ran clear to wrap it up in stoppage—time on a wet night in rome meaning lazio win a 7th trophy in this competition and first since 2013 also securing them a place in next season's europa league. the second golf major of the year gets under way on thursday, with the uspga championship taking place at bethpage black in new york.

the tournament, which was won by brooks koepka last year is being played in may for the first time, having been moved from its previous date in august. tiger woods will be aiming to win back—to—back majors, following his win at the masters last month. the former world number one, who's bidding to win a 16th major title, hasn't played since his victory at augusta but doesn't see that as a hindrance. i feel great. as i ifeel great. as i was i feel great. as i was saying earlier, i wanted to play a couple of weeks ago and just wasn't quite mentally ready to do it. but physically i have been feeling really good. the training sessions have been good. i have been doing a lot of practising of late. not in sweaters so this was a little bit different. whether i am dominant or not going forward, that remains to be seen. what i know is i need to

give myself the best chance to win and sometimes that can be taken with brea ks and sometimes that can be taken with breaks here and there to make sure i am ready to go and give my best at those events. rory mcilroy is aiming to win the tournament for a third time after success in 2012 and 2014. although he hasnt won a major since then, bookmakers have him amongst the favourites this week but mcilroy says he isn't taking any notice of that. ido i do not think anything about the odds. i think i have a good chance. i have a pretty good record at the pga with a couple of wins in a couple of other decent finishes so if we are playing in because i like andi if we are playing in because i like and i know if i play the way i can hopefully i will have a chance. 1991 winnerjohn daly has been approved to use a cart because of arthritis in his right knee that he says keeps him from walking more than six holes on the golf course. he'll be the first player to ride a cart in a major championship since casey martin in the us

open at olympic club in 1998 and 2012. now to cycling and stage 5 of the giro d'italia saw 2017 winner tom dumoulin withdraw due to the injury he sustained during a crash the previous day. wednesday's stage took place on a horrid day, weather—wise and ended with germany's pascal ackermann claiming his second stage victory of this year's race. he negotiated the surface water in terracina, and timed his sprint to perfection, to beat fernando gaviria by half a wheel. primoz roglic retains the overall lead, 35 seconds ahead of briton simon yates but it was an unhappy stage winner. it was notjust it was not just a it was notjust a spring. all the stage was scary. all the descents, you cannot see that much on the palatine. i was just lucky no—one crashed. —— group.

further to the north in rome rain also affected the italian 0pen forcing the postponement of the complete schedule of second round matches on wednesday. both the women's and men's world number ones naomi 0saka and novak djokovic along with rafael nadal and roger federer were due to feature but a packed schedule is now set for thursday. cricket and bangladesh beat ireland in the final round robin match of the tri—nations series in dublin. it means they maintain their unbeaten record in the competition. ireland batted first after winning the toss and opener paul stirling hit 130 off 1111 balls as they made 292 for 8 from their 50 overs. abu jayed was the pick of the bangladeshi bowlers — taking 5 for 58. his first five—wicket haul in only his 2nd 0di. in reply, liton das top—scored with 76 as bangladesh chased down their target with 7 overs to spare. sabbir rahman hit the winning runs as bangladesh won by 5 wickets. they'd already qualified for the final on friday where they'll face west indies.

0bviously obviously you have been in the west end this twice. anything to work on tomorrow or a day off? no, we will practice on the areas we need to improve because it is a big match coming up. they have beaten us twice, especially in the final. if we can win, we will win the tournament and it is a very important match for us. we will see. catalans dragons will play in a replica barcelona kit when they host wigan at camp nou on saturday. a crowd of around 30,000 is expected and that would make it the biggest for a regular season super league game. the dragons have played in barcelona before, at the olympic stadium, but this will be the first rugby league match ever played at camp nou and wigan‘s zak hardaker, who won the man of steel award in 2017, says it'll be a dream occasion. it is an iconic stadium, known around the world. there was no chance five years ago but the way

the game has developed and the last few years it has enabled us to play such a stadium. i have never been to it so it is a new experience for me. a new country as well. something i am really looking forward to. former formula 1 world champion fernando alonso has crashed in practice for the indianapolis 500. the spaniard is trying for a second time to win the prestigious race. it's the last part of his quest to become the only man aside from graham hill to claim motorsport‘s triple crown, which also includes the monaco grand prix and le mans 2a hours. alonso wasn't hurt, but will lose vital practice time ahead of qualifying which starts on saturday. the wall came too close and too quickly but, unfortunately, it happened today and we will lose a little bit of running time again and

iam little bit of running time again and i am sorry for the team but we will learn and hopefully we will come back stronger tomorrow. this has been making waves on social media after germany confirmed their 23—player squad for the women's world cup. it contains a strong message of female empowerment from the two—time world cup winners and eight—time european champions, who are among the favourites to achieve more glory in france. the video features the players and head coach martina voss—tecklenburg as they highlighted the struggles they've faced in the women's game, which included many stereotypical comments. it should be a cracking world cup which gets away next month. the first game of the eastern conference and bea first game of the eastern conference and be a final is under way between toronto in milwaukee. until next

time, goodbye. hello there. the temperature peaked just shy of 26 celsius yesterday in highland scotland. it was warm for all but the 26 will be the highest in this current warm spell because temperatures and the heat are gradually going to ebb away. it will still be warm through the day ahead and feel pleasant enough but the high pressure that has been ruling the roost is drifting a little further north across scandinavia, allowing more of an easterly breeze to pick up and it will drag in more cloud as well. the combination will lower our temperature. still through the night under the starry skies it has been chilly in some areas. could be some early morning mist and fog — that will clear — and see sea fret and sea haar in the north and a few showers potentially for the western side of scotland but perhaps later for northern ireland. for most, a dry bright warm day with hazy sunshine. we pick up a little more cloud filtering west across england

and wales and a bit more of a breeze and those two together will knock the temperature down a little but still looking to reach 20 degrees in the warmth in the north and west but we will notice the keen breeze of the north sea coast. the sun is just as strong be at 1a or 20 degrees. thursday and friday we started to pick up some rain. through the evening and overnight. initially light and patchy but through the day on friday it could turn heavy and it will blanket falling temperatures in the central and eastern areas. chilliest weather further north under clear skies. friday looks like a cloudy day as you can see. there will be rain, thick clouds enough to give showery rain. making its way westwards and eventually to the eastern side of scotland so we will hold onto some sunshine in the western of scotland and northern ireland but temperatures again down another two or three degrees because not only were we have rain but the wind will be stronger still on friday.

quite keen for the north sea coast. we lose the wind in the south as we go into the weekend but we do keep a cloud by then and with showers around and light winds they will be slow—moving. the devil is in the detail this weekend. the weather front will bring more persistent rain to the northern half of the country, particularly scotland and northern england, perhaps not reaching northern ireland, and then further south we lose the wind but we pick up slow—moving heavy showers. they are close to a centre of low pressure. by sunday that is almost gone and we are just into this very slack wind regime that means we will not see much whether generally slow—moving heavy showers moving out mostly in the north as temperatures start to bounce back in the south. as always, more regional detail on our website.

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