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and e‘fir mum w‘fiiu” e‘fir mum “wen i drop my ranking and eight months i was out of the tour. and then i did not have money to start playing the tournament and it was a very tough moment for me. all but one of her grand slams had ended and the anonymity of qualifying but she broke through stunning in the quarterfinal. no qualifier has ever made it this far this event but that is where it got complicated. opponent iga swiatek is ranked 54th in the world but clearly hurtling higher. nadia podoroska said she didn't want to wake from her french open dream but the iga swiatek forehand was a brutal grooming alarm call for some breakfast up the polish woman is just 19 and has a teenager positive disregard for the speed limit. those rockets clocked 80 mph. she had already left some on how up in the dust. nadia podoroska was left little choice but to load the catapult. the goal from rosario had never won two matches on the
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women's tour before this event but her spirit remained unbroken unlike her spirit remained unbroken unlike herup by her spirit remained unbroken unlike her up by sets. nadia podoroska smashed eggen back even when the match was long—lost. iga swiatek eased into her first match was long—lost. iga swiatek eased into herfirst grand slam final. hard to believe it will be her last while nadia podoroska will go home with nearly £400,000, her life estrangement is strange fortnight in finance. —— in france, patrick gearey, bbc news. and swiatek will face australian open champion sofia kenin in the final. kenin beat petra kvitova in straight sets in her semi. the american kenin took the first set 6—4 and the second 7—5 to reach her second grand slam final and had to save ten break—points against the two—time wimbledon winner. the final is on saturday. britain's andy lapthorne is into the men's quad final in paris. he beat the american david wagner by two sets to one. fellow briton alfie hewett saw off gustavo fernandez to reach the men's wheelchair final. let's bring you up to date
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with some more headlines now. georgia haas made a good start to the women's pga champ chip in pennsylvania. she is 100 per she has said and for first route to shut up elite. —— pga championship. england's tyrrell hatton has a share of the lead on the first day of the pga championship at wentworth. hatton is six under par after his round as are justin harding and adria arnaus. and a member of the mercedes f1 team has tested positive for coronavirus ahead of this weekend's eifel grand prix in germany. the team haven't said who's got the virus, but say it isn't championship leader lewis hamilton, or fellow driver valteri bottas. two—thirds of women who work in football have experienced gender discrimination, according to a survey released today from the group women in football. the organisation represents more than 4,000 women who work across the sport — and the study also found that over 80% believed they had faced gender stereotyping.
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ebru koksal, the chair of women in football, told me the industry should be seen like any other. i think many people think that a woman is not able to understand football or be contributing to football or be contributing to football as much as a man can but they are completely wrong. these are not multibillion—dollar businesses so not multibillion—dollar businesses so managing a brand or managing the finances of a company or doing the strategic or legal work or hr work at any level, women are extremely capable and should be welcomed into the industry. the women in football agenda is to try to change some of those outdated stereotypes pushing things forward. how do you plan to do that? we are so keyed into holding it down with more than 4000 members of women in football. we knew what the results would be but
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it is always much more helpful to have stats to share with the industry so that our reason of existence becomes more solid. we plan to work alongside the industry. so this is a joint effort. we want to work collaboratively with all the stakeholders in the industry because we cannot do it alone. women are already convinced about why and how they can contribute to the further advancement of the industry. but also equally great about the survey was how optimistic our members are about the future. 87% of them said that the future is much more bright and it's our responsibility to make the new generations enter football, flourish, and advance in their careers and be present at every single level of the game whether it is on the picture off the pitch, in
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the boardroom, in the control room, wherever they are, women make a great difference. ebru koksal talking to me there. it's a month to go until british sailor alex thomson begins his latest quest to win the vendee globe race. after finishing third and second in previous attempts, and having to work around a worldwide pandemic this year — thomson has his eyes on going one better in the single—handed round the world race, often regarded as the toughest sporting event on the planet! lewis coombes reports. 28,000 miles on your own without stopping without help. around 3060 foot thurber at racing yachts began, only one will win. the race is over before you start. it is all in the preparation, the choices you make and some we made two years ago. you cannot beat yourself up and worry about it too much. you have to be
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strong, stick to your plan, you have to be confident and you got to work with some of the best people in the world which is what we do. three yea rs world which is what we do. three years on from an agonising second—place finish, this is thomson's fit the tent at achieving his holy grail. the battle now is try to go that one step further but as everfor try to go that one step further but as ever for vessels like this it is about performance versus durability. on average i am sleeping 2.5 hours a day. mentally you have to make big decisions on your own. you have to deal with the insecurities and what your brain is telling you when you are going down a huge wave, will you hitan are going down a huge wave, will you hit an iceberg? it is a difficult mental challenge. the latest hugo bossis mental challenge. the latest hugo boss is a fine cut, and a £16 owed to engineer, a fully closed cockpit, a short dick lane, oversize curved foils and other innovations yet to be revealed. ——. .. foils and other innovations yet to be revealed. --. .. these foils and other innovations yet to be revealed. --... these things foils and other innovations yet to be revealed. --. .. these things are going 30 knots which is 35 mph which is very fast on the water. the idea
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is very fast on the water. the idea is to take the space that we were, ta ke is to take the space that we were, take it inside and make it warmer for me, make it drierfor me and guess what? i am going to work harder. thomson and his team will head to western france for two weeks to quarantine before the race gets under way on the 8th of november. is there an element of fear involved? it is the fear of not performing, the boat not being up to the speed we wa nted the boat not being up to the speed we wanted to be. mr robin knox johnson, he says first you have to finish. and he is absolutely right and in my opinion if you can finish the vendee globe, you're already a winner. lewis coombes, bbc news. beautiful shots there. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. you can follow on 55 for the england whales friendly and 55 extra to hear scotland's euro 2020 semifinal with israel. we'll have more for you later this evening. thank you.
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hundreds of erotica drawings by one of britain's meeting pages of the mid 20th century have been found under a bed. the pictures mostly of male sexual encounters have not been given to the farmhouse in east sussex where grant lived and worked. it was believed that the collection thought to be worth around £2 million had been destroyed. but i have been hearing about its rediscovery and its significance. my name is dr darren clarke and i'm the head of collections, research and exhibitions for the charleston trust. the charleston trust looks after charleston farmhouse, which was the former home of the bloomsbury artists vanessa bell and duncan grant. this is duncan grant's mum, ethel. you think that everything has been said or written about the bloomsbury group but they are continually surprising us. what we have here are 422 works on paper by duncan grant.
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this collection was given by duncan grant to a friend. for a long time everybody thought it had been destroyed. because of its homosexual nature and because they were illegal images it was thought that his friends' family had destroyed them on his death. but luckily they were saved and they were given to another friend and another friend and another friend and eventually they came down to the person who has given them to charleston. why did you decide to give them to charleston? i've been wondering who i might pass them on to and i thought this could go on for centuries if we don't kind of stop it. did you ever take them out from under the bed and show them to people? occasionally, yes. some friends would come round for dinner and the subject would go vaguely towards bloomsbury and i would say, well i don't know if you know about this but i've got all these erotic drawings and would you like to see them. and so i would haul them out
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and show them a few. there were hundreds so one got the gist quite quickly. they need to come out of the closet now and be considered and looked at and thought about. i mean, they are a serious collection. absolutely beautiful. i think it's a really significant discovery. a lot of talk about bloomsbury and its relationships and its fluid relationships and the different amount of partners people could have. but it's never really been visualised in any way and this gives it visual context. this is his passion, this is what he was interested in. and that gives it a legitimacy, that gives a different context for grant and his life and the stories that we can tell at charleston and for different people and the different voices that we can bring to charleston.
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now it's time for a look at the weather with darren. hello there. earlier read temperatures into the high teens across our southern parts of the uk. as a head to the weekend it will be feeling colder by day and colder by night as well. with sunshine and some showers. a good day today for chasing rainbows as we saw here in scotland where there has been the book of the showers. for the south local out has been freaking out, it did take a lot to think and break in cambridgeshire and across other southeastern parts of england. clear skies are following on through this evening and for much of the night, for the north in scotland we see cloud coming in rain as the wind picks up blowing it down into northern england in north wales by the end of the night. i have it with clear skies it will be recorded than it was last night, five or 6 degrees and a touch colder than that in the glens of scotland where after the overnight rain we are seeing
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sunshine and showers following in. that rain moving south from north england and wales, into southern afternoon, it could be heavier by then. the russian showers finally behind, some of these heavy with hailand behind, some of these heavy with hail and thunder and the north—west of the uk where the winds will be stronger and it will feel colder. look at the temperatures in the afternoon, typically 11 degrees on friday afternoon maybe making 15 in the south—east ahead of that rain where that rain will give us a wet and to the day. cooler air coming across the country all the way from iceland in a north to northwesterly airflow, high pressure to the west of the uk, low pressure to the east as well. that will feed in a mixture of sunshine and showers over the weekend. saturday the bulk of the showers for northern and western areas, it could be areas as well for much of the day eastern england likened to be dried with some sunshine at times. but there will be a chilly wind blowing on saturday and thus temperatures other than 12
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01’ and thus temperatures other than 12 or 13 degrees. for the second half of the week and it will be a cold surface of the wind strongest on the eastern side of scotland. north sea coast of anga and here we are more backward to catch a few showers. many other areas may well be dry with sunshine and it won't be as windy but not getting much warmer. again 12 windy but not getting much warmer. again12 or13 windy but not getting much warmer. again 12 or 13 degrees and those temperatures may not change early next week as well. it does look cloudier and wetter i think on monday. some are wet weather continuing into tuesday particularly across the south—east of the uk.
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hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. donald trump's been changing his mind, on the election debates. hello, i'm ros atkins, this is outside source. donald trump's been changing his mind, on the election debates. the president first refused to take part in a virtual debate after the format was changed — saying he'd hold a rally instead. here's whatjoe biden made of that i don't know, i'm just hearing the same thing you are hearing as we are going. never know what's going to come out of his mouth. but now, it's back on — after the trump campaign accepted the democrats offer, of a week's delay. the fbi arrests six men for plotting to kidnap gretchen whitmer, the democratic governor of the state of michigan. federal and state law enforcement are committed to working together to make sure that violent extremists never succeed with their plans. particularly when they target our
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