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celebrations all round, as the philippines down new zealand with their first world cup win. tournament still fight for equal pay. and playing for pride — the ashes may be gone, thanks forjoining us, where we start with football, and the philippines picked up a first ever women's world cup win, with victory over new zealand on tuesday. the tournament co—hosts could have secured a path to the last 16, but group a will now be decided in the final round of matches on sunday. that's after norway and switzerland played out a goalless draw in their second match.
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nick parrott wraps up the action. the boot was on the other foot for new zealand in wellington. after pulling off a shock win over former champions, norway, in the opening match of the tournament, but they didn't get stage fright. at this level, you need to take your chances, on target count. commentator: what a moment! their opponent's goal with shots, but couldn't offside, or they were foiled by the heroics of olivia mcdaniel. that is a match—winning moment there from mcdaniel. her save in the final moments making the philippines
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new zealand now needed norway to do them a favour against group a leaders, switzerland, in a wind— and rain—swept hamilton. it was always going to be a tough ask, after losing kick—off. that the swiss did not roll over was largely due to their outstanding goalkeeper, gaelle thalmann. of the group. just the second goalless draw of the tournament leaves norway bottom. they will now be hoping hegerberg can return for their next match against new zealand in auckland on sunday, because they will have to win to stand any chance nick parrott, bbc news. the last two to play were colombia and south korea,
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in sydney. it finished 2—0 to the colombians. catalina usme got the first from the penalty spot. the second, a goalkeeping error scored by 18—year—old linda caicedo. south korea did make history, when casey phair came off the bench. atjust 16 years and 26 days, she is the youngest player to feature at a world cup, either men's or women's. on wednesday, there are two group c matches, with spain and japan both set to qualify with a game to spare, if they record respective victories over zambia and costa rica, while in the late game in group b, the republic of ireland have to avoid defeat against canada, if they are to keep their campaign alive. the fight for equal pay in women's football has dominated the build—up to the tournament. a number of teams have had stand—offs with their football associations over the issue. back in 2019, american players filed a discrimination lawsuit against us soccer. that resulted in a pledge for equal pay for the men's and women's teams across all
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competitions, including the world cup. not having distractions like that, like having to fight for equal pay, equal working conditions this time, moving forward, at all, ever again, it feels really good, and i hope that that will soon be the case for all of the players around the world on the international level. us soccer has done a great job in supporting us, and that's not the case with a lot of the other federations around the world, and we know that. nottingham forest have signed sweden forward anthony elanga from manchester united on a five—year deal. the 21—year—old has been at united since he was 12, and made 55 appearances for the red devils, having made his first—team debut in 2021. he becomes forest's second signing of the summer. across town, manchester city have definitely not parted ways with kyle walker, despite interest in the england international defender. city, who won the treble last season, culminating in the champions league
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triumph, face german champions bayern munich in tokyo on wednesday — the club keen to secure his services. manager pep guardiola insists the 33—year—old right back having specific qualities that is so difficult to find worldwide. in his particular qualities, he is irreplaceable, we want to keep him but i don't know what is going to happen. i know we are in touch with clubs and we will fight for him, like, i'm pretty sure, but i don't know where it is going to finish. eight—time gold medallist usain bolt says sprinter zharnel hughes could become an olympic 100—metres champion next year. he recently beat linford christie's long—standing british record, and also smashed a diamond league
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meeting record at the weekend. i think in the 100 metres, he does. i think, if he executes right, and if he does what he's supposed to do, and continues on the track he is on right now, because he is in a good running form right now, so it's just about maintaining, and he should be fine. i think he will be in the top three, if he executes right. the ashes may be lost but england goal keepers will be trying to sign off their summer on a high and level the series against australia, after that miserable rainy weekend at old trafford, the teams are now at the oval, with a final test starting on thursday. joe wilson reports. now, would you like to see a cricket ground bathed in sunshine? ah, a little bit too late. after everything that happened and didn't happen at old trafford, it was an optional training day here at the oval for england's players, so some, like mark wood, like ben stokes, didn't train. others, like chris woakes, went through some quite extensive stretching. have a look at his face here. now, we know that whatever
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the result, england's idea is to bring people back to test match cricket, and that really goes for young players as well. take harry brooke, for example, could earn a fortune playing he is committed to england, to try and balancing his defence and attack as and he is committed to making up for manchester. well, we were dominating the game last week, so if the game had have played out, i like to think it almost makes it a moral victory. these guys are the best team in the world, at times we have got a big score there but i feel like i've contributed a little bit to a few games now. especially that innings
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at lord's in the first innings looked to score. so it's just, like you say, getting that measure there and getting it right most innings. so after all that we've seen at all that we might have seen in this test match series so far, which team is actually the better? ah. here is an australian response. everyone has different opinions. england are going to say in periods they have been and we will say in periods we have been. so, 2—1, the scoreline, again, a couple of tests could have gone either way. i feel that we played really well in parts and england have — played well in parts, so it matches up to a very good last one and i have played an extremely straight bat at it so it's nice. laughter. yes, well handled from a batter who has faced a lot of hostility from england's bowlers this summer. what are england playing for? well, to square the series. for their own pride? they are definitely playing for the people who will fill these seats at the oval. staying with cricket, only ten overs of play were possible in a weather—affected second day of the second test between sri lanka and pakistan in colombo. having added 33 runs to the overnight total, pakistan were 178—2 in theirfirst innings, when rain interrupted play,
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leaving them 12 runs ahead of the hosts. pakistan are 1—0 up in the two—test series after winning the opening match in gaul by four wickets. bronniejames, the 18—year—old son of nba legend lebronjames, is in a stable condition after suffering a cardiac arrest. a family statement said he collapsed on court while training with his university of southern california team—mates on monday. earlier this year he, agreed to play for college team, usc trojans next season, school basketball. yea r�*s nba draft. boston celtics jailen brown has agreed to a five—year contract extension worth $304 million, according to reports. in nba history. in recent years, helping the team reach the play—offs for seven consecutive seasons.
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dutch sprinter lorena vivas has won stage 3 of the tour de victory in the bunch sprint, but weber powered her way across the line for his second win. becky finished third. she keeps the yellowjersey and now leads by 55 seconds. don't forget, for everything else, go to the bbc sport app. download it on your phone or your tablet, or you've got the bbc website, of course, but for me tulsen tollett and the rest of the team, goodbye for now. reached 46 degrees. this is the temperature anomaly map. is really getting squeezed down towards the southeast of a significant drop in temperature on the way
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across italy in the next 2a, 48 hours. the heat lasts a bit longer in greece, but even here, not as windy, either. here in the uk, our weather continues to come in from is going to bring some rain into western areas on wednesday. than it was on tuesday. but it will be a chilly start, where we have the clearer skies — three degrees in scotland, six or seven across some southern parts of england and wales. be more cloud, showers left over from overnight. across northern england, perhaps southern scotland, there will be some sunshine, but it does cloud over rain in northern ireland by lunchtime, over the irish sea that'll keep the temperatures a bit lower. but ahead of that, with some sunshine for a while across scotland, eastern england, temperatures should be a bit now, this weather front will take that rain eastwards
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it means a lot warmer night, actually, but it means quite a cloudy start to thursday and a bit misty and murky as well. could hang on to the rain from overnight across northern it may well linger through the english channel, but elsewhere, as it slowly brightens up and we see a little bit of sunshine, that could trigger a few more there will be a lot of cloud around. it'll feel quite muggy, actually. a warmer day for western areas, and again, in the east, temperatures about 23 degrees. quick look ahead to friday, still got the chance of some showers around, maybe not quite so many. quite a bit of cloud here and there, as well, and those temperatures, not really changing an awful lot, still making 23, perhaps 2a in eastern areas, maybe a bit cooler for western scotland and northern ireland, certainly cooling off then across southern parts of europe. but what about here in the uk? pressure, as we head into the weekend, with the wetter
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