hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm chetan pathak. jamal lewis breathes life into norwich city's season — as leicester are beaten at carrow road. in the wars. after going into the world track cycling championships with a broken shoulder now laura kenny has to deal with this. and one of swimming's most divisive characters sun yang is banned for eight years after missing a doping test — prompting strong reaction from the swimming community.

welcome to sportsday. norwich city have hope again, written off by most at the bottom of the premier league — they've boosted their survival hopes tonight after a huge win over third placed leicester at carrow road. it takes them to within four points of safety as adam wild reports. it was exactly 15 years ago that smith called for norge to find their wealth man amongst the carrow rowd crowd. a decade and a half on the data hero now perhaps more than ever. rock—bottom since boxing day come a hero now perhaps more than ever. rock—bottom since boxing day, time running out for a reprieve. provided much of what little there has been for the canaries to sing about this season. but not this time. lester have also had the troubles as of late, the closest they will come in the first half, still delia waited. anxiety not held

when they thundered went in and immediately after half—time, and direction were again saved by the ar. now there turns to press forward and have seen the biggest problem. it was until the ball fell to jamaal lewis on the edge of the box. no one was stopping that. nora had their hero, an unlikely one but they will need plenty of ball in the incoming weeks. there were seven goals at easter road as hibs stormed into the semi finals of the scottish cup with a 5—2 win over inverness caledonian thistle the championship side pulled a goal back at 3—0 down but then had a man sent off, before stephane omeonga added a fourth. and then a fifth from jamie gullan, as hibs are the first team to make it through. tomorrow hearts take on rangers and st mirren host aberdeen. the holders celtic travel

to stjohnstone on sunday. time now to round up some of today's other football stories. oldham athletic have been served with a winding—up petition over unpaid taxes. the league two side have been summoned to the high court on the 18th of march. the club's told the bbc that they're in the process of paying the outstanding debt. manchester united will play austrian league leaders lask in the last 16 of the europa league with the first leg in linz on march 12th. that's after their 5—0 win over copenhagen last night. wolves will play bayer leverkusen whilst rangers will take on olympiakos — the team who knocked out arsenal. and they're not taking any chances with the coronavirus at newcastle united — they've decided to ban handshakes at their training ground, in an attempt to curb the spread of the virus. manager steve bruce called it the sensible thing to do. in rugby union's premiership, second—placed sale are just four

points behind leaders exeter. that's after they beat gloucester 23—17 — marland yarde with sale‘s third and final try. exeter can re—establish their eight point advantage tomorrow — if they beat harlequins. in the pro 1a, edinburgh have extended their lead at the top of conference b to seven points — after they won a closely fought match with the cardiff blues. george taylor with the only try — as edinburgh won 1a points to six. no problems with scoring in the night's other game. conference a leaders leinster ran in nine tries, including a hat—trick for dave kearney, as they thrashed glasgow 55—19. the win moves them 20 points clear at the top of the table. there was also a high scoring game in tonight's super league — as leeds rhinos eased past the warrington wolves. leeds won 36—0 — running in six tries — by six different scorers — including this effort from ash handley.

the win moves leeds upto second — while warrington stay 7th. laura kenny eventually finished twelfth in the omnium at the track cycling world championships in berlin following a nasty crash earlier this afternoon. kenny, seen here in the white in the middle of your screen — was taking part in the opening race earlier. she was one of five riders to crash with just over a lap to go. she was able to walk off the track with a cut near her right eye. she had to have stitches but was allowed to carry on and finished eighth in the second event — the tempo race — putting her 16th at the halfway stage. kenny broke her shoulder in the omnium at the world cup in canada only last month. when i came down, to be honest, i knew straightaway that at least my shoulder was ok, and that was all i was sort of worried about. the blood started gushing from my face and i was like, oh no, it else have i done? i was not going to give up, i came to race and i'm glad i did

carry—on. i need to do the races at this level. the last time i will get to do that before the olympics. does not matter above the gold medal, after you get back in the race, after you get back in the race, after six months i'm going to be nervous again. i'm just going to be really scared. and six ounce row i won't even think about it. —— six months. china's sun yang has been banned for eight years after missing a doping test in 2018. it's been a long running story that's seen podium boycotts, rows and swimming's world governing body being criticised too. sun yang was initally banned for three months for taking a banned substance in 2014 — which some felt was lenient (ani) he returned to the pool to win a heap of medals including gold at rio 2016. two years later — he missed an out of competition drugs test and got involved in an argument with officials but a few months later in january 2019, fina — swimming's world governing body — cleared him of any wrongdoing.

the world anti doping agency appealed that decision to the court of arbitration for sport, and got it's way — with sun being handed an eight year suspension on friday, he says he'll appeal that. here are the thoughts of former olympic silver medallist sharron davies i think it's setting a very strong message, which is what we need to do in sport. if you want to deter people from trying to cheat the system, i'm very disappointed that the swimming but it did not do this way back at the beginning of last year so that the world championships we re year so that the world championships were not ruined but it's good that has been done at last. they don't have a great track record, 2016 when they did not have the backbone to a sickly blanket ban all of the russians and through it over to the association they decide to be one of the associations that were going to implement the ban in may russians received multiple bands previously beating british rumours at the metals at that game. i baked

conflict about that sport and interested in the finance and the profile. and those of actually pleased the sports and not doing a very good job of policing it. they have to understand that theirjob is the foremost is to look after the athletes. this is not a band or about how much money to convey, it's not about the star hotels they put their staff and the board members end, this is about looking after the athletes first and foremost. and it's going to be incredibly transparent and got to be quick and just and i just transparent and got to be quick and just and ijust hope that transparent and got to be quick and just and i just hope that they take all of our messages away from this. certainly be a lot more pressure on what they do in the future from the outside world. another comfortable one as well. they secured their second win in three days at the women's t20 world cup — and another comfortable one too — easing past pakistan to leave them within touching distance of a semi final spot. jo currie is in canberra for us. it is perfectly planned. from the streets and buildings down to its

parts. it was constructed as a compromise to become australia's capital rather than melbourne or sydney. one went in one defeat, and a second bring the plane to be at this age of the cup against the opposition there can be no compromise. but when that ending will be well on the road to the semi finals. having lost the toss ignore put into bat by pakistan and from there it was a similar performance to the first two games in this world cup. with openers amyjones and then danny cup. with openers amyjones and then da n ny wyatt cup. with openers amyjones and then danny wyatt dismissed cheaply. it was less of the trusted partnership of silver and nights to put runs of the board. captain knight brought up a half—century. to help guide england to a total of 158 for seven. the bowlers were not to be outdone. sarah glenn picking up three wickets. pakistan's top score but also picked up another three wickets to make of the competition now also

leading wicket taker as a bold pakistan out for 116. runs of the boredom of only teens out which is a really good sign and we have been here for a long time i think we really are pretty close to our best and that's where you want to be coming ifa and that's where you want to be coming if a later stage of attornment. england now move on to city knowing they went against the west indies could guarantee them a spotin west indies could guarantee them a spot in the semi finals. joe curry, bbc news, canberra. well south africa are top of england's group after thrashing thailand by 113 runs. lizelle lee's maiden t20 international hundred helped south africa posted 195 — a record for the competition. thailand — on their debut in the tournament — could musterjust 82 in response. south africa are level on points with england but ahead on net run rate. the top two out of ther group of five go through to the semis. now let's round up some of today's other stories and staying with cricket. mark wood has been ruled out of england's tour to sri lanka with a side strain — picked up in south africa.

he'll be replaced by lancashire's saqib mahmood and not james anderson. dan evans lost out to stefanos tsitsipas in the semi finals of the dubai tennis championships. evans had beaten two seeds to reach his fourth atp semi but lost to the greek in straight sets. tsitsipas will face novak djokovic in the final england's tommy fleetwood is one of three englishmen in contention with the halfway mark approaching in the honda classic in florida. he's three shots off the lead, while luke donald and lee westwood are two shots behind america's brendan steele. and finally for all you club golfers out there how about this for a bit of luck. this is englishman callum shinkwin at the oman open with a shocker of an iron shot. it looks destined for out of bounds and a shot penalty, but after 3 bounces on the rocks amazingly it drops back into play!

surely think it's all over, we have really slowed this down so you can say for it and that is the key one. i get that back to where he wanted it. fantastic. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more sport throughout the weekend. there's more on the website to come as well. for me and the team, thanks for watching good night. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are michael booker, deputy editor of the daily expresss — and the ft‘s brexit editor david

bond. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. let's start with the daily mail — and it says emergency measures to tackle coronavirus are being rushed in, after the first british victim died. he was one of the passengers on a cruise ship offjapan. the same story also makes the front page of the times, which says fears are growing over contagion, after the virus was passed on in the uk for the first time. the express carries a picture of borisjohnson, after he said the virus was the government's "top priority". but the mirror says the former chancellor, george osborne, is urging borisjohnson to do more, in order to combat the virus. the telegraph reports that health officials believe one in ten people in the uk could end up in hospital with coronavirus. according to the guardian, the red cross could be drafted in to help the nhs cope

with the outbreak, as part of an official action plan being drawn up. the financial times leads with the turmoil in world stock markets, as investors' fears mount over the economic impact of the coronavirus. and, the i also focuses on the market reaction to the virus, with shares suffering one of their worst weeks since the 2008 financial crisis. so, coronavirus dominating all the front pages — let's see what our reviewers make of it all. let's start off with these plans that we are hearing about. front page of the telegraph, shelley?m you were not concerned about this particular then you've just been through all the front pages and you can see there's been a lot of talk of tipping point in terms of the virus itself but in terms of the newspapers has been a tipping point today and i'll that we have heard

about the first death of a bridge in japan on the cruise ship and summer contracting a person to in this country so it does appear at that point that people from the newspapers has been on the front pages but not totally as it is at the moment. this story, they are saying outbreak of the one intent in hospitals, saying 70% of britons could develop in write 15% could end up could develop in write 15% could end up in hospital as a result of that and talking about these emergency laws. again about the disposal of bodies and how that would be speeded up bodies and how that would be speeded up with these laws and also allowing children to be taught in larger classes because teacher might have fallen ill. all very serious. the government appeared now to, they are publishing this next week and they are now trying to react and have been accused of being quite slow on this so we have seen borisjohnson earlier on today coming out and talking about it, he's going to have a cobra meeting on monday and that's what people do want to hear because it now looks to be getting very scary can we look at the front page

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