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not the only upset on day nine — unseeded marketa vondrousova came from behind to put jessica pegula out of the tournament. and, he gave everyone a scare, but defending champion djokovic is through to the semi—finals after losing a first set against andrey rublev. welcome to the programme. we start with an astonishing day at wimbledon with some serious upsets in the women's draw. just nine months after having a baby, wild card elina svitolina knocked out the top seed iga swiatek to reach the semi—finals. ukrainian svitolina, only returned to the tour in april after having her daughter in october. but her opponent in
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the next round also raised some eyebrows. the unseeded marketa vondrousova, came from behind to beat american fourth seed jessica pegula. jess softly was watching. elina svitolina has lit up these championships. she's spoken about the added motivation she has both from the war back in her homeland and from becoming a mum recently. injust her second grand slam since returning from maternity leave. she's backed up her quarterfinal at the french open by reaching the semi—finals here after knocking out the world number one iga swiatek. the full time grand slam champion still hasn't quite cracked it on grass, but take nothing away from svitolina whose variety took that match away from the top seed. next up for svitolina is marketa vondrousova, the unseeded czech player who never made it past the second round here before she put out the women's fourth seed, jessica pegula, today in three sets.
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the american losing her sixth consecutive grand slam quarter final. she is yet to make the final four. in the men's draw. it is business as usual for novak djokovic. into yet another wimbledon semifinal as he chases a roger federer equalling eighth title here. russia's andrei rublev did take the first set off him, but his wait for a first grand slam semifinal continues. next for djokovic will be jannik sinner, a man who is finally into his first grand slam semi after beating russia's roman catholic in four sets. sinner play djokovic at last year's wimbledon and lost having won the first two sets he went out in five. could it be different this time? chethan pathak there. after winning stage ten of the tour de france, spanish rider pello bilbao dedicated his victory to his late team—mate gino mader who died after a crash at last month's tour de suisse. bilbao was in a group of 1a riders that broke away from the peloton with 80 kilometres to go. the stage ended with a sprint
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finish with the 33—year—old claiming the first grand tour victory of his career. yonas vingergor kept his overall lead, but bilbao moved up to fifth place, above the british trio of twins adam and simon yates and tom pidcock. 18 gold medals were decided on day three of the world para—athletics championships in paris. there were also several new world and championship records set — as rachel latham reports from france. tuesday has seen three world records broken at leicester charity and 11 championship records have gone to including swiss athlete manuel ashour. she broke the championship record in the 800 metres to win gold this evening. her usa rival, tatiana mcfadden, who is an eight time paralympic champion, had to settle for bronze. she's been on the world stage for 20 years and she spoke to me earlier about how much has changed in the sport. there's been amazing movement that i've seen.
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like in 2004, there was no one in the stands like my family of like 20 people cheered on every single athlete. and when i got to the podium, i was like, oh gosh, like, i feel so, like, unimportant. paralympics has changed tremendously and for the better. we're seeing equality through the sport. we're seeing equal payment for athletes. we're seeing more global sponsorships for athletes. we're seeing more media coverage outside of social media and social media. we're looking, you know, at more world connections. the bronze medalfor mcfadden was her 21st world championship medal, and she said it's given a high hopes for the rest of these championships and confidence and motivation. looking forward to paris next year. staying with athletics. the european court of human rights has ruled in favour of double 800 metre olympic champion caster semenya in the challenge against world athletics�* rules which stated that the runner�*s testosterone levels would have to be lowered. world athletics said they had taken a proportionate measure
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to defend the female category. alex capstick is our correspondent following this story. yeah. it's been going on really ever since caster semenya made world headlines as a teenager when she won world title at 800 metres back in 2009. these rules were introduced in 2018 permanently by world athletics to restrict the levels of natural levels of testosterone for dsd athletes. that's athletes with differences of sexual development. and caster semenya refused to take medication, so she was not allowed to compete in her favourite event, an event she's won olympic and world titles. that's the 800 metres. she's always argued that these rules are a violation of her human rights. she appealed against them at the court of arbitration for sport in 2019. that failed, then took it to the swiss tribunal in 2021. the supreme court there failed again, and she's appealed to the european court of human rights. and while this
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is this decision, a narrow one by 11—3 with the seven judges involved would appear to be a vindication and is a vindication for caster semenya. it's quite nuanced. it's quite complicated. the decision is against switzerland, basically, because the court there, they say, didn't afford her enough protection in the procedural way it was run, given the fact there were credible and what they described as substantiated evidence that she had been discriminated against. so a victory today for caster semenya. but it is quite complicated. alex capstick there. cricket — and the first of three women's one—day internationals between england and australia takes place in bristol on wednesday. it's the final phase of the multi—format series in which australia won the one—off test match, and england were victorious in the t20 series, but the home side will need to win all three one—dayers if they are to regain the ashes. ben croucher looks ahead to them. england have won the game.
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they're still in the ashes. at lord's they were leaping. back to back t20 wins over australia won the battle, but in bristol they still have to play the long game. i'm sure they'll come as hard. we talked about that after the first victory. we've always seen ourselves in this series as the disrupters a little bit having to do things a little bit different to to try they've recalled a record breaker. brings up a double century. after becoming the first batter to make 200 in the test match, tammy beaumont was left out of the t20 series, but she's still determined to make her mark. it's always nice to score runs against the aussies in that test match, but one day cricket is quite different to red ball and yeah, certainly a lot of confidence. but i feel like just being around the group today, there's so much belief that we can beat australia tomorrow and hopefully the rest of the games after. kind of yeah. getting back on track
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in the t20s. the size of england's task is no small one. australia are the world champions. they've won their last 15 in the 50 over format and are keen to make sure they can't be caught. feels every time we play against england. it's really good cricket, hard fought, so we get pushed every time we play against england and they were better than us the last two games and we've got to acknowledge that and fix some areas of our game. so yeah, no game against england is ever easy. australia know a win in any of the remaining three matches will be enough to retain the women's ashes, but they need to beat the most english of conditions a confident england side, a sell out bristol crowd and maybe even the odd shower. ben croucher bbc news bristol. on to football — and ruben loftus—cheek has been officially introduced as an ac milan player, following his free transfer from chelsea. the england midfielder, will be re—united with his former chelsea team—mate fikayo tomori, who moved to milan two years ago and has
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been selling the club to him. before i was speaking to him we already knew this club was huge my had a already knew this club was huge my had a hu-e already knew this club was huge my had a hu-e history. already knew this club was huge my had a hu-e history. i already knew this club was huge my had a hu-e history. i want my had a huge history. i want to be part of it. fikayo tomori has been fantastic for me even know, because i can't speak italian yet, even now, when they speak to the & co. she is open. hopefully in a few months i will be absent do these press conferences in italian. and the exodus from chelsea to milan is likely to continue with christian pulisic on the verge of moving to the san siro for $26 million dollars. the us international is due to have a medical in milan this week before completing his transfer. pulisicjoined chelsea four years ago from german club borussia dortmund. daniel ricciardo will make a shock return to formula one — starting with next weekend's hungarian grand prix. the australian was the reserve driver at red bull, after rejoining the team
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at the start of the year, but will nowjoin their sister team alpha tauri for the rest of the season, replacing nyck de vries. replacing nick de vries. ricciardo has eight race wins to his name — seven during his first spell at red bull, and one with mclaren in 2021. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.co.uk/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello. well, southern parts of europe in the grip of a heat wave at the moment. we continue to be in the grip of some big shower clouds, more of them around through the rest of this week, even some longer spells of rain and stronger winds by the time we hit
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friday. why? well, low pressure is dominant, we've just got various areas revolving around the same part of north west europe, which continues to bring showers to the north and west into the start of wednesday morning. a slightly fresher start for many of you compared with tuesday morning, but a sunnier one for the south and eastern england as well as the midlands. won't take long, though, for the clouds are build up, showers are in the west, will start to work their way eastwards. a stronger wind across the uk on wednesday, and that means those showers will rattle through quite quickly for some of you. for one or two it be one after another, after another, with a bit of sunshine in between. it does mean that some of you avoid them altogether. nice enough in the sunshine, but overall, temperatures a little bit down on where you want this stage in the year. so there could be the odd passing shower in that breeze at wimbledon. the breeze will probably be pretty noticeable and a bit troublesome, i think, on the outside courts. but a lot of the time, it will be dry. showers continue into the evening, most will fade away then through wednesday night into thursday morning. and with the winds falling a little bit lighter, it's going to be a little bit cooler still. away from the towns and city
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centres, there will be temperatures widely into single figures. but the chart for thursday shows we're almost in between this area of low pressure clearing away, this one pushing in, brief ridge of high pressure, that does mean whilst we will still have some showers around, perhaps not as many as we started the week, and the ones we do see will be a little bit lighter. still prone to them, though, scotland and parts of north northeast england, but elsewhere, some longer spells of sunshine. and with winds lighter than wednesday, it mayjust start to feel a touch warmer. first signs of something, thougn, a bit more potent coming in to ireland as we see the day out. and through thursday night into friday, an area of low pressure looks set to wind its way up. details may change a little bit, but as well as heavy rain pushing its way northwards and eastwards, we're going to see strong—to—gale force winds, particularly to the south in the west. bear that in mind if you're travelling around on friday or if you've got plans to spend a few nights under canvas. some in the southeast may stay reasonably dry, driest of all, brightest in the far north of scotland, but it'll feel cool in the strong winds that are around. it stays windy into saturday,
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