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stage we get a sense of who are going to be the stars for the next games and things are looking rather promising for british diving. jackal and dan goodfellow winning silver on saturday and now tom daley, some ten yea rs saturday and now tom daley, some ten years after his first world championship title, is still winning three medals. he wasjust 15 championship title, is still winning three medals. he was just 15 when championship title, is still winning three medals. he wasjust 15 when he w011 three medals. he wasjust 15 when he won individual gold at rome 2009 and a decade on, tom daley is still one of the world's best divers. he and his new synchro partner have forged an impressive partnership despite only paring up late last year. after a stunning fourth round dive today, an error in the fifth saw them slip from second to third but a brilliant final routine secured bronze and, crucially an olympic place at tokyo 2020. china's limbic champions took gold ahead of russia. tom daley returns for the individual competition later in the week. this will championships a year before the olympic games, i've not been in the position where i've had a synchro partner via before an olympics to try and... we were never up in the
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medals with pete. it was terrifying new date mag knowing if we got a gold medal, we wouldn'tjust be world medallist but to qualify for the olympic games for gb. so massive belief and job done. the other diving final was the women's three metres synchro event which featured britten's grace reid and cat torrents. they qualified for the final with the fourth highest score so final with the fourth highest score so they knew they had the potential to challenge for a medal. their final dive wasn't good enough to secure a top three finish. they were fifth which secures them a place in next yea r‘s world fifth which secures them a place in next year's world series event. to be so close to that medal is frustrating but we left everything that we had out there today. so, yeah, bittersweet. isuppose that we had out there today. so, yeah, bittersweet. i suppose you have the world series plays confirmed for 2020 so that'll be a plus and something to work on in extra's campaign? to get the world series places a bonus because it gives you a couple of competitions before the big ones next year so it isa
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before the big ones next year so it is a good thing to have in the bag. one of the main event is to look out for in the fifth day of competition here at the championships in south korea is the men's ten kilometres open water competition which will feature jack purnell who is expected to be one of the major medal contenders but crucially a top ten finish because that would unlock a place for him at the tokyo 2020 olympics. now it's been a good day at the tour de france for british fans... because defending champion geraint thomas has moved up to second in the overall standings, after a dramatic finish to stage ten. thomas had started the 218 kilometer stage from saint flour to albi in fifth, but benefitted from a late break in the peloton that caught some riders off—guard. belgian wout van aert went on to win the race, while thomas is now one minute and 12 seconds behind overall leaderjulian alaphilippe. in the days other sports news. steve bruce has left his position as manager of sheffield wednesday and is now favourite to take over at newcastle united. bruce guided wednesday
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to 12th in the championship last season after only taking over injanuary. he has already held talks with newcastle about replacing rafa benitez. celtic have rejected a second bid from arsenal for scotland left—back kieran tierney. the premier league club, are thought to have offered in the region of £25 million for the 22—year—old. they previously had an offer of £15 million turned down. meanwhile, after his exit from arsenal, aaron ramsey has been given a warm welcome from juventus fans. the wales midfielder signed for the serie a side on a free transfer from arsenal. he'll be playing under the former chelsea manager mauricio sarri who joined juventus last month. the open championship is the next big tournament to look forward to, it starts at royal portrush in northern ireland on thursday. and the first round groupings have just been announced. home favourite rory mcilroy will play with the new us open champion gary woodland and england's paul casey.
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tiger woods is with fellow american patrick reed and englishman matt wallace. whilst bryson dechambeau and the australian adam scott will play alongside the reigning champion francesco molinari. a full list of tee times is on the bbc sport website and app. this will be one of the biggest tournaments to ever be staged in northern ireland. darren clarke, who grew up near to portrush during the troubles says... it's going to be incredible. the political climate until recently, they were never going to come here in that scenario. how far we've moved on from the good friday agreement, they were not going to bring the tournament so big well the troubles were going on. so they are moving things around. and we were speaking to peter dawson, just gently nudging him and saying portrush is good enough, it's a wonderful test. he knew that anyway.
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but we got together with arlene foster. there was so much will to bring it here, i think peter succumbed to that lady's chance and it came out favourably for us, obviously. let's go back to downing street where england's cricketers are meeting with the prime minister after winning the world cup. you can see theresa may's meeting the captain eoin morgan, who is holding the trophy. of course, she watched at lord's yesterday as england won against new zealand in that tense, tense final that to a super that tense, tense final that to a super over. that tense, tense final that to a super over. you that tense, tense final that to a super over. you can see that tense, tense final that to a super over. you can see next to him joss buttler, who was the player who recovered the bales after that throw from jason roy, what an incredible moment this is as they enter ten downing street. what a celebration we have witnessed from this england squad, the first to win the world cup for the men. there is moeen ali, adil rashid, tom curran, jason roy,
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and, of course, joffre archer, who bowled that last over in the super over. mark wood as well. we will keep watching, obviously, as the squad file into that famous street. we believe larry the cat was there earlier, hoping to meet the squad. we didn't get his chance. theresa may came out instead. and wonderful scenes, holding that trophy aloft. the trophy was presented by prince andrew to the captain eoin morgan yesterday. the draw happened after 50 overs, 241 runs each, they can be separated, so it went to the super over with 15 runs each. but england won back with more boundaries overall. theresa may repositioning, that trophy looks heavy! they are repositioning for the cameras. and with the squad all around for the
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photographs, too, what an amazing moment, reminiscent of the scenes in 2005 after england won the ashes. but they don't seem to be as inebriated as they might have been in 2005. i'm sure you remember those scenes. the only hijinks that we might see could well be from larry the cat. let's hope that is the case. and, of course, the cricket squad have walked down that famous street to meet the prime minister theresa may, who was at the final yesterday with a husband, watching that very tense final. such an incredible achievement for the squad but we also saw yesterday a packed lords watching on, the tickets were incredibly difficult to come by, as both the captain eoin morgan and theresa may hold aloft the trophy, that could be his last white ball match, he is 32 years old, so there have been some questions of
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retirement of the captain. what was most important today when we watched when the trophy was paraded around the oval was the amount of children, the oval was the amount of children, the next generation of cricketers, who'd be that it may could be inspired by that famous win. the women won the world cup two years ago but now the men have emulated that success and they go into ten downing street as the world champions of the white ball with that trophy, filing and one by one to ten downing street for a drinks reception with theresa may. triumphant as a squad, very diverse, but very together squad. as we watch those scenes finish on ten downing street, that's all from sportsday. we will have more through the evening. for now, thanks forjoining us.
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good evening. i hope you haven't got to use to the sort of weather you had today because things are going to be changing over the next few days. today, many of us were dry with increasing amounts of sunshine and as we go through tonight, we keep hold of some clear sky is allowing some missed patches to form here and there. we stopped to see more cloud pushing and cross northern ireland and western scotla nd northern ireland and western scotland producing the odd spot of rain by the time of the end of the night. temperatures generally holding up in double digits but chilly for central and eastern areas out in the countryside. tomorrow any early mist clearing quickly the knots of tribe of weather, spells of sunshine at this band of cloud and patchy rain but eastwards, that extra moisture sparking the odd shower into the afternoon but many places sting dry and pretty warm as well, 22 degrees in aberdeen, 26 in london. as we head towards the end of the week, things to an unsettled, outbreaks of rain and pretty windy
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