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coming upforyou: we'll show you how shelly—ann fraser—pryce extended her sprinting legacy with gold at the world championships in qatar. australia's rugby world cup ambitions took a blow as they were surprised by wales in tokyo. and the speediest star in sochi. lewis hamilton capitalises on a bad day for ferrari to win the russian grand prix. hello, thanks forjoining us wherever you're watching around the world. to doha first where jamaica's other sprinting superstar was at it again. shelly—ann fraser—pryce added yet another world 100 metre world title to her burgeoning collection, underlining her status as one of the greatest sprinters in history. ade adedoyin took it all in. while shelly—ann fraser—pryce won her first at the olympics in 20 —— 2008 and there are very few athletes
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doing what she is doing. she came into these championships under a bit pressure under the emerging talents like elaine thomas, also from jamaica, and dina asher—smith, but she was the fastest in qualification and in the race, there was only going to be one winner. what made this victory even more remarkable is that she only really returned to the circuit last year after taking some time away to have a child. she talks about the challenges of being a mum and even her child into jamaica, —— leaving her child injamaica to travel to europe. that has also been a motivator, she said, saying that she can do this after taking time away, to break down barriers and saying that what made it even more special was that the child was able to celebrate with her, as was her husband. she can make claims to being the greatest sprinter of all time because no other athlete has done what she has done, that is to elliptic titles, for a limp judgement world championship metals
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and she is not done there because she has aspirations of competing at the tokyo olympics next year. she is going to take some stopping. a remarkable performance from the 32—year—old, carrying her son zyon for the lap of honour and even some of the post race interviews. she'd handed him back to his father by the time she spoke with ade. zyon has made me better, stronger and more focused. tonight, i was able to do it with him in the stands and my husband as well. it took a lot of hard work and a lot of sacrifice to get to this point and for me, i was able to inspire a whole generation of women who continue to work hard and know that, you know, it doesn't matter what critics or anybody else has to say, it isa critics or anybody else has to say, it is a matter of who you are and what you are capable of and as long as you never lose those focus. to football where ac milan manager marco giampaolo says he will not resign despite seeing his side suffer a third straight
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defeat in serie a. they were beaten 3—1 at home by fiorentina to leave them just a point above the relegation zone after six games. franck ribery scored the third for fiorentina. napoli moved back into the top four with a 2—1 win over brescia. kostas manolas nodded carlo ancellotti's side two up. and even though mario ballotelli's first goal since returning to italy setup a tense finale, napoli hung on. lazio, roma and udinese also won. lazio are a couple of points behind in sixth. they put four past genoa — who now slip into the relegation zone. ac milan's torrid start to the season continued. they're just a point above the drop zone after losing 3—1 at home to fiorentina. in the netherlands — feyenoord were 5—1 winners over fc twente. if that wasn't a bad enough afternoon for goalkeeper joel drommel. his part in feyenoord's fifth is one he'll want to forget in a hurry. sam larsson was the lucky recipient of drommel‘s generosity.
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they were 4—1 down at the time so it didn;t make any difference to the result at least. just the one match in the premier league on sunday and it saw leicester city climb up to third with a 5—0 thrashing of newcastle united. steve bruce said it was a complete surrenderfrom his side in the second half after they were reduced to 10 men. they remain second bottom with just one win all season. we are certainly not anywhere near to good enough. we made it difficult all afternoon and certainly when it goes to ten men, you need to get 20, 30 minutes up the road and just after halftime, an awful goal away and a deflection for the third and that it became one of the very difficult afternoons against a very good leicester team. we have got to show a lot more than what we did. under difficult circumstances.
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well after japan's shock win on saturday at the rugby world cup, it was wales' turn to surprise one of the tournament favourites on sunday. their 29—25 win over australia has put warren gatland's side in prime position to claim top spot in pool d but the welsh coach has called on his side pat themselves on the back and then do a job in the remaining games. from tokyo, here's our correspondent katie gornall. this was a game that these fans here will remember for a very long time. one that more than lived up to its box office billing. it was exciting, it was exhilarating, and despite the hot and humid conditions here in tokyo, it was played at at a relentless pace. wales first out of the blocks early on with that try from hadleigh parkes and although australia did hit back in the first half, when gareth davis intercepted the ball and broke free to score, you just sensed all the momentum with wales. they were 15 points off at the break and looked in control. you have to give full credit to australia for the way they surged back into this match, scoring two tries and a penalty in the second half to get
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within one point of wales. the tension at that point was written all over the face of the welsh coach warren gatland but what they needed at that point were cool heads and they had that in rhys patchell, the replacement fly half who was on for dan biggar who went off with a knock to the head at half time. between him and some dogged welsh defending, wales were able to hold on and secure a memorable victory that not only puts them in control of pool d but also marks them out as real contenders to win the whole world cup. there was a surprise winner insight she, too, lewis hamilton has extended his lead by winning the russian grand prix. ferrari had been the cast catch all weekend but a combination of poor reliability and poor driving handed him the win. it was so unexpected was not for a
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fourth race in the row, charles leclerc started from pole. ferrari fears hamilton could catch them at the corner unless they orchestrated it for sebastian vettel to pass them both. their plan worked and both —— pa rt both. their plan worked and both —— part of it was for sebastian vettel to hand the lead back to charles leclerc but he refused. after much moaning on the radio, ferrari got charles leclerc back in front but then engine problems ended their hopes of victory. with sebastian vettel‘s castrated, hamilton took advantage. when it resumed, he surged into an unassailable lead, breaking the track record on the way to his ninth win of the season. what should have been a 1—to finish the ferrari became a 1—to four mercedes was a bit strengthens their grip on the constructors and drivers championship while leaving ferrari questioning their way forward. cycling next and the most
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attritional men's world road race in 2a years. three quarters of the field didn't even make it to the finish after the riders were faced with horrendous conditions all afternoon in england. avoiding the pitfalls and the puddles was denmark's mads pedersen for an unexpected maiden world title. dodging the rain for us in harrogate was patrick gearey. this was no day for a bike ride. relentless rain meant this would be a road race with a difference. the route shortened and diverted, the riders battling through miles of treacherously waterlogged country. supported by soaking spectators, even on the most forlorn. a test of technique and tenacity. the race bottlenecks as it entered harrogate, a town built around a spa water, covered in rainwater. one of the prerace favourites philippe gilbert couldn't recover the ground lost in this crash is the pace of others fell away, including the defending champion alejandro valverde. the white shirted adam yates and ben swift fought hard to stay in it but
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the race was being stretched by a series of exhausting attacks. the final duel was between italy's matteo trentin and the 23—year—old danish outsider mads pedersen. a riveting race and a final twist. what a raise and what are victory for mads pedersen, the new world champion brought home in the rain. the weather has been awful but the enthusiasm of the crowd right along the route has made this a day of celebration as well as saturation. patrick geary, bbc news, in harrogate. victor perez won his maiden european tour event at the alfred dunhill links championship and became first—ever french golfer to win at st andrews. dundee—based perez, who is based just 20 minutes away from the course, claimed first place in his 29th appearance after posting a final—round 70 at st andrews. a close—range par was good enough to see him win by one shot from england's matthew southgate. you can get all the latest sports
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news on our website including sunday's nfl. that means wins for new england and kansas city amongst others. bbc .com /sport. we will see you soon. hello there. parts of wales have seen over 130mm of rain over the last seven days. no wonder, then, that we've had problems with flooding. and after a quieter start to monday, it looks like rain will then return from the south—west. we start off with this little bump in the isobars. a transient ridge of high pressure moving its way through. this cold front bringing some showers into northern scotland and this area of low pressure will be feeding rain in from the south—west. so we start off with mist and fog patches which should left and clear
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and clear and then a decent amount of sunshine, some showers feeding in across scotland and then this rain, particularly through the afternoon, piling into the south—west of england, three wales, where in the high ground, we could see a further 70 millimetres, getting into three inches, rain getting into the midlands as we go through the afternoon. to the north of that, northern england and scotland, largely dry with just the odd shower but on the cool side. as we go through monday night, the rain pushes northwards and eastwards, getting into the far south of scotland, certainly rain into northern ireland, showers chasing on into the south where it will be a mild night, but we start tuesday morning on a decidedly chilly note across the northern half of scotland. our area of low pressure just churning its way eastwards as we go through tuesday. along the line of this frontal system here we will see heavy bursts of rain and there could be thunder and lightning mixed in. the wet weather tending to pivot its way south—east, leaving something brighter behind but with the winds coming down from the north, there will be a few showers and it is going to feel really chilly, nine
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for aberdeen and stornoway. some of the showers over the highest ground in northern scotland could contain some sleet and even some snow over the mountain tops. as we get into wednesday and the area of low pressure continues to slide away eastwards, while we all get into this cold northerly wind, we could well start wednesday morning with a touch of frost. temperatures for parts of northern england, southern and central scotland, out in the countryside, could be all the way down at freezing. but it is looking for like a beautiful day for the most part. lots of crisp sunshine and blue sky overhead. some showers running down these north sea coasts on a brisk wind. lighter winds further west but daytime temperatures of just 11—14 degrees. heading towards the end of the week, there is a lot of uncertainty, it looks like temperatures will start to climb again but there could be wet and windy weather. we'll keep you posted on that one. for the end of the week, more rain at first but temperatures climb for the end of the week
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