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she was beaten in three sets by two—time grand slam champion garbine muguruza, who has already knocked out sloane stephens on tuesday. tennis‘s fed cup is to be renamed the billiejean king cup after the great champion and founder of the wta. it's the first time a major global team competition has been named after a woman. billiejean billie jean king continuing billiejean king continuing to make history at the age of 76. ineos grenadiers have finally claimed their first stage win at this year's tour de france. the british team have dominated the race for the last decade, but struggled this year, losing their leader and defending champion egan bernal yesterday. today, they bounced back with michal kwiatkowski crossing the line with team—mate richard carapaz to claim his first stage victory at a grand tour. primoz roglic retained the leader's yellow jersey. britain's adam yates slipped back to seventh overall. so, a stage win at long last for team ineos,
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but it's been a struggle for them during lockdown. we can talk now to cycling journalist michael hutchinson. ifi if i can find him somewhere. there he is. thank you so much forjoining me this evening. finally a tour win bya me this evening. finally a tour win by a team has won seven out of eight so by a team has won seven out of eight so what has gone wrong for them. they have dominated this to work for the last two years and this year it is all gone wrong. essentially it has such a odd year for all sports including cycling, being up in the airfor most of including cycling, being up in the air for most of the year and the tea m air for most of the year and the team has dealt with that very badly. they just don't team has dealt with that very badly. theyjust don't have the writers in the condition that they need to be. it has come to a head and they already in this year's tour have been struggling. is that because of a lock down? because the riders are
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not in the shape they need to be because of the lockdown. why were they not in shape? it depends a bit on where you live. a lot of places live in areas like andorra where the lockdown was quite strict and the colombian player struggled with training there. such an unusual year that there is no template for it. one of the things it team ineos have historically been very good at is analysing what they need and where they need to be an a very databased team. this year, it is more intuitive because one of the first things you have to do this year was gas when racing was going to start again because in april and may we did not know if that would be a tour de france or if there was when it would be. was it going to be a full length? some of the other teams have dealt rather better with those uncertainties because they have perhaps taken a bit more intuitive approach. the other thing is i think some of the younger riders have done well because they've had the
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enthusiasm to train to the lockdown quite often in a complete lockdown country so you train all the time on an indoor trainer. so some of the younger riders have dealt with at a bit better than some of the older riders. perhaps they want to get outside a bit more. and getting into the business into the race that would not many stages left. his roglic will nailed onto the yellow jersey? the traditional phrases boring accident and i think that is very much the case. there is really one significant stage left to play which is the time trial on friday. roglic is a very good time try list so roglic is a very good time try list so it is hard to see him not surviving that with the yellow jersey so i think he has got the win pretty much nailed up. we will mark your words. thank you very much for joining us this evening. annemiek van vleuten‘s hopes of defending her giro rosa and world titles is in doubt
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after she was taken to hospital with a suspected broken wrist after crashing close to the finish of stage seven. the 37—year—old dutch rider still leads the race by almost two minutes. the stage was won by belgium's lotte kopecky, just ahead of britain's lizzie deignan. lizzy banks is the highest—placed briton in tenth place overall. england's cricketers will be reflecting on a disappointing end to an otherwise successful summer. reflecting on a disappointing end their narrow one—day defeat to australia last night meant they lost the series 2—1. england managed to complete all 18 of their planned international fixtures in biosecure environments at emirates, old trafford and the ageas bowl. their future schedule, though, is far less certain, and former england captain michael vaughan thinks after welcoming touring sides over the summer, it's england's turn to go on the road. i think the likes ofjimmy anderson and stuart broad, the two greatest
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in terms of seen bowling will have a month or two waiting in the wings waiting to get the call. india may be on, let's go to the caribbean if not, england oh a few countries. they owe a few countries a visit. look at the west indies and what they rest by coming here. south africa may be. pakistan could be a one—day tour there if things are not different in other parts of the world. one thing is for sure and thatis world. one thing is for sure and that is because the likes of the west indies, australia and pakistan and visited here, england will have to go and visit some of these other countries. we are desperate for cricket to carry on a nib in the market leaders here of how it can be put on behind closed doors. i'm sure the ecb are getting phone call from any boards around the world of how it is been put together and how you put a behind closed doors test series together. let's hope that cricket can carry on and in the next few months we can get a few fans back at the ground. while the england men's cricket team have returned
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to the field in recent months, the women's team, who are also world champions of course, have had to wait. ahead of their return to action on monday against the west indies, captain heather knight has been talking about their recent struggles. it was tough to be honest. we were in ourfirst training it was tough to be honest. we were in our first training bubble at derby and within two days we found out that the world cup was obviously cancelled and then sew africa pulled out. so not a great few days to be honest. but luckily the turnaround was so honest. but luckily the turnaround was so quick to get the west indies over and was so quick to get the west indies overandl was so quick to get the west indies overand i think was so quick to get the west indies over and i think we as players thought he would never come to a situation where we would be not playing any cricket. so obviously thatis playing any cricket. so obviously that is brilliant. it has been a very surreal time for us all i think and now we are getting back to some sort of normality and getting back plane for england and i think we are really excited and very grateful. now, football may have been absent for much of this year, but sam allison took a phone call earlier in the summer that will forever be etched in his memory. the firefighter was on shift when he was told he had been
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promoted to be a referee in the english football league. he's now the first black referee in english football's top four divisions since the retirement of uriah rennie 11 years ago. he's been speaking to mandeep sanghera at the fire station that he's based at in trowbridge. initially you think is the organisation racist? once you start to get in there, it's far from it. that is something that inadvertently you think because you cannot see them, they must be. but i've only had good support all the way through the journey. getting there is one thing. being an established football referee and making sure you are the best referee can be is another thing. you don't have time to rest on your laurels. you had to try and hit the ground running and learn and develop as much as you can.
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there is a lot of crossover between being in charge of incidents and how you manage people and how you talk to people and decisions you make and you use that in the games. you go to clu bs you use that in the games. you go to clubs and you interact with the club and match officials and the team and the club officials and the secretaries and how you engage and talk to players in communication, decision—making. so it works really well. then it looks like you're putting out fires on the pitch at the same time. i have got aspirations to try and reach as high as i can. i have got an attitude for working hard and a desire to do is much as i can. i'm trying to help others who look like me and show them there is a path for them, too. refereeing is a role for everybody. notjust for white refereeing is a role for everybody. not just for white people refereeing is a role for everybody. notjust for white people who you see the majority within refereeing.
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it's for asian people and people from lgbt and black people and minority ethnicity groups. as for anybody. and supporting and the resources a re anybody. and supporting and the resources are out there and they are fantastic. you have to take that hurdle and have that trust and that faith that your ability will get you there. congratulations to him and best of luck. quick update from the gallipoli, tottenham have an advanced to happen one. they are awaiting news of gareth bale's return. and a bbc two is the latest diamond league meeting for you from rome. there is gabby logan, denise logan and others on the other side to guide you. why not turn over right now because that is all from us. right now because that is all from us. good night. hello. we are over two weeks now
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into meteorological autumn, but the weather is very much still in summer mode. your weather watcher pictures from thursday showing a huge amount of sunshine across the uk, just a bit more cloud at times into parts of northern ireland and northern scotland. and the reason why things are so sunny and settled, you won't be surprised to find high pressure on the big picture here. but as we go into the weekend, low pressure close to iberia will start to feed a weather front closer to southernmost areas of the uk, so an increasing chance of seeing some showers as the weekend gets under way. but for friday, still very much looking dry, with the exception of the very far north of scotland. we're talking the northern and western isles, with cloudy skies here, and you could see a bit of rain at times. that easterly wind, though, across england and wales, getting very noticeable no, getting stronger as well. these are average speeds during friday. may well find some gusts around 30, some exposed spots getting close to a0 mph. but for temperatures, 21 in glasgow, so we're at or above normal for the time of year.
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just some north sea coasts with the onshore breeze holding on towards the mid—teens. big picture again, and going into the weekend, here's the system feeding up from the south. there's a lot of uncertainty, though, and we don't really know how far north any showers are going to get, so keep watching the forecast. the greater chance is through southern england, perhaps into south wales. if you catch a shower, could be heavy and possibly thundery, and those brisk easterly winds as well. but with the exception of some thicker cloud hanging around the far north of scotland across much of the uk, it'll be another sunny day, with temperatures generally towards the high teens and a few spots into the low 20s. looks like this system, by sunday, begins to retreat southwards, as high pressure holds on. there will be some areas of low cloud to start the day, but the sun will eventually come through. still more cloud in the far north and northwest of scotland. in the far south of england, though, any early showers will tend to retreat and more of us will see the drier weather. and temperatures, if anything, maybe just creeping up a couple of degrees.
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that takes us into monday. don't need to focus on this system as it fizzles away. this area of low pressure, though, beginning to feed a weather front closer to northern scotland as we go on through monday, so most of the uk again will have another dry and sunny day, we will see, i think, some rainjust pushing him towards at least the northwest of scotland, may be quite late on, reaching to the west of northern ireland. and temperatures may be a degree or so higher towards southeast england in the sunshine. things are starting to get more active here as we look to tuesday. this waving weather front could well bring some heavier rain into parts of scotland, northern ireland and then, with some degree of uncertainty about timing, begin to push further south. tuesday marks the start of astronomical autumn. it's the equinox. and, clearly, things are beginning to head in that direction. it's also starting to turn cooler behind this weather front as it moves south as well and what we'll find, actually, when we look at the jet stream is a much more amplified, wavy pattern as we look at the midweek next week. a big ridge coming out
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of north america, but then this big dip in thejet stream, this trough in the jet stream, for us. and we find nestled within that an area of low pressure close by, that through the second half of next week, looks to be moving across the uk, with wetter and windier and cooler weather too. so, if you're enjoying the late—summer sunshine, make the most of it. if you want a taste of autumn, you don't have long to wait. that's your forecast.
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. we begin in europe. there are warnings the coronavirus situation is getting very serious. we'll speak to the who's director for the region. in the uk, the biggest regional lockdown we've seen yet starts at midnight — 2 million people in the northeast of england are affected. also in the uk, growing reports that the covid testing system is under huge pressure, as just a third of community site tests come back within 2a hours. police on the greek island of lesbos start to move migrants to a new camp, after an older one burnt down last week.
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