six action packed minutes of sport from russia and around the world coming up in the cake partridge and here are the top stories. when it comes while number one serena williams beats defending champion maria sharapova in straight sets to clinch her second french open crown. plus a lisbon loss portugal beat russia one nil in the world cup qualifier to go top of her best fabio capello's men had two games in hand. and top gear french when yvonne extends his lead in the overall standings after dominating russia's first touring car race in moscow. all weeks football and racing to come but first to tennis after world number one serena williams beat number two maria sharapova for the thirteenth time in a row to clinch her second french open title europe over was the defending champion in paris and took a two love lead before losing in the first set six four while

a single break of serve in the second was enough for williams to take it by the same scoreline and secure her sixteenth major title but only her second on the paris clay courts after last winning the event eleven years ago the american sealed the deal with ace number ten a thirty one she's the oldest winner at roland garros in the open era and hasn't lost to sharapova since two thousand and four are in my position to be in the final and i did put up a fight obviously today against her is not enough but she's been playing really great tennis i mean there's certainly not an excuse but which is she was playing serenely well i think she really wanted it she came out with a real plan him. she was really determined to do really well and i think there was a queue for the in the marriage was just to play well and i think she did i think she played excellent. well although it was disappointment over a couple of her compatriots were jumping for joy after the elena vesnina and to

catherine i'm a car about won the women's doubles the russians beat the italian zero of solder irani on the words of vinci seven five six two to claim their maiden major trophy while the american brian twins won their fourteenth grand slam in the men's draw. and in the singles rafael nadal changed a record eight french open title following in straight sets victory over fellow spaniard david for air looked on by sprinter the thing you say in bolt the king of clubs he was interrupted by a court invasion but he lived up to his monika as the twenty seven year old one six three six two six three brushing aside farah who was playing in his first major finals at the age of thirty one the doll has now won twelve grand slams and is the only man to have won the setting won eight times. moving on to football and in a week of world cup qualifiers l. the push to go valid in the ninth minute winner is portugal be leaders russia one

mill in lisbon to go two points clear at the top of group f. the defeats was the side's first under coach fabio capello but russia still second with two games in hand while in brussels belgium went three points clear at the top of group a after holding off serbia two on thirty minutes in young the tongan found on march chelsea where we can do great. and on the hour marlon fellaini headed the host to go in front. of three minutes to go serbia pulled one back alexander color of curling in a pinpoint free kick to set up a tense finale but to warm up was how it finished. in contrast second place croatia's hopes of qualifying direct we were dealt a severe blow off to losing one will to scotland in zagreb the visitors had started the day bottom having lost the last four twenty six minutes and robert snodgrass poked the ball past one. stuff goalkeeping the papers he cosa on the home side couldn't muster an equalizer and scotland held on for the first win to go above

macedonia interfet. thank you great being leaders italy had to mario balotelli sent off before drawing nil nil with the czech republic in prague both sides struggles to create chances when the hosts did go close john luigi who form was there with the save however italy were dealt a blow in the seventy second minute when ballot tally collided with lassie and was dismissed for his second booking in the space of four minutes but the czechs were able to exploit their advantage in much english goalless. in group c. austria when second in the race for a play off place with a two one win over rival sweden in vienna against the run of play of the hosts and a twenty fifth minute penalty in david l. about julie converted mark young those brave diving head of them swiftly made it to know. about eight minutes to go johan elmander up two to go back to the swedes.

was to hang on to go above the republic of ireland on goal difference and my points behind it is germany. and japan became the first team to reach the finals along with host brazil off to picking up the point they needed with a dramatic late one one draw against australia inside thomas off to eighty two minutes the socceroos spectacularly break the deadlock with a cross cumshots tomo which left the goalkeeper of the most but in injury time the hosts were awarded a surprising penalty. contest got me to feel that k. suki honda stepped up to kick japan into the twenty fourteen world cup a straight off thirty nation group be on seven points and have two games left at home to jordan and iraq to try to book the etiquettes to brazil. now russia is preparing to host their maiden well cup finals in twenty eighteen and as chief executive alexey several king told richard van port fleet the country is looking to

learn from the euro two thousand and twelve experiences of co-host ukraine who won out over initial skeptics to produce a successful tournament. crain is exactly the example of how you can fall with to victim of bad p.r. i think they in the end they delivered a very good tournament but suddenly they they were not in the position to in time offset these strange attempts to bring down their effort and to diminish. in the media the endeavor that they embarked on. we will certainly learn from that and will be ready to to fully display what we're doing and to be open to to the interested audience what your general impressions just self of ukraine was very core duo very well organized. i expected more people to come there

but. still there was there was a lot there was a an amazing number which i heard in the media of in excess of one billion euro was exchanged in the in the banks of only ukraine that means a lot of visitors with a lot of money it's a stunning figure really. but it's it's a factor in the economy it's a factor in tourism it's a factor of in exposing the countries in a good sense. so. there's well organized in general i think there is still a witch hunt in the british press towards russia winning it's a fascinating mode cop no we don't feel that anymore it was valid that is true. probably a couple of years ago but we don't feel that it now and that present so now i think it stopped everybody is accustomed to the idea that the world could finally russia ok i mean obviously it is going to be a lot of focus on racism within russian football to see racism is

a massive problem around the world in italy as we've seen i mean let's have a you're saying being racially abused on the pitch but if you just focus on russia for a moment how are you going to tackle this problem yourself again we can we can only use promotional tools and p.r. tools to stand up for. this phenomenon. which we intend to launch some of the initiatives very soon we will see most likely with the beginning of a new season there is all to this work. but that's that's the most we can do we can only state our position and promote our position and that's very firm. when the fee for the full line speed has approached to it which is very strict and we intend to fully share and develop this approach. not as a russian football action as confident but up off looks back over twenty twelve to

thirty in the premier league first western style season and picks his top five players thanks i'm eager to gain fever was the best man between the six sixteen clean sheets in twenty nine league matches led a defensively solitaries got to win the title for the first time in seven years and made it double with a ban on to shoot out of the tree over and dream the russian cup their one club man is discussed captain and russia's number one with a group of contenders considering just once in five games thanks i'm defender christopher samba was to angie what pneumonia. the imposing congress keeper had helped make this heating smarm title contenders with just two defeats in their first nineteen games them in the winter break and resold somber to english club q.p.r. the dentist onside went on to win only three more games still finishing third but eleven points adrift and in the euro but not champions league while q.p.r.

were relegated. i've. planned unstable bieber a snappy is the more demand of coach who bombed their leaves approach the tieless is rarely is that as an inside new field engine and played all thirty matches ending as coopt up score a with nine goals in the europa league would be more russia's best side beating holders and later come on the eve before one of final exit to eventually winner is chelsea while a sixth place finish means less this side back in europe. i've heard good born armenian r.s.s. believes develop through the acts against me and brought some dutch flair to combine since last summer's one million euro move the fleet footed winger with a rocket short scored nine goals as the cross on the clock went on reason since the winter break attracted the league's highest a tandems finish their best ever fever and clinched a first ever place in europe. i've. opted in i am

a lost seven of their first eight games to iraq morton new coach down to dress conspired his moscow side to fourteen match and didn't run with dan gold top score alexandre category and their go to man the youngster and a seven major ban after russia tackle saw him sound off in a feisty one nil defeat at relegated alani and then penultimate week and in homage just missed out on europe yet could goran remains a favorite for the dress code and russia coach fabio capello going side him other r.t. . from russian football to the russian combat sport of somebody where the host nation donated at the illustrious president's cup held for the seventh time here in moscow we called our child explains all. become the sport of samba turn seventy five this year it's a fusion of various tristen styles plus martial arts which was cropped to do to solve its union and this year only teams from the former soviet republics were

invited to take part in the presidents cup in moscow even though somebody is looking to gain ground i think but this is a very prestigious tournament west asia and for a seventh time and they could position gets tougher every year just look how heated the finals are i think it's a sign of how fast our sport is developing and i'm really happy that somber is moving to worse the olympic family with traditional wrestling fighting for olympic survival because nation for samba may be a long shot but three time olympic wrestling champion aleksandr karelian looked on as russia took on rivals belarus in the decider. and local fighters prevailed and eight of the nine finals to ensure the cup stays at home and are also looking to deliver an even bigger tournament's he said no i guess that was the president's cup as a major stop on the calendar for the russian national team we don't think it's just a warm and it is important for us and now we will head into the camp to get ready

for the university games and the world championships. both competitions will take place in russia with the university games due to start on today the sikhs because on the old event returns to st petersburg in november a month after the seed to place host of the gold combat games given some the plaintiff's chances to raise its profile hillgrove part. and that's the end of part one but don't go away we'll be back after this short break. big each of pill popping to what degree is big pharma hijacking captures the western medical establishment what is the real aim of the pharmaceutical industry to make people healthy or to generate healthy profits for themselves and is there anything we can do to break this one tells the fledging actions.

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. welcome back to ponce and the sports show and let's kick off on the pitch where the russian women's rugby sevens team in the top three as they prepare for next month's world

cup sevens which will be held in russia for the first time michel graf shankar reports. russia's rugby sevens team twice made the headlines last month by finishing third at the inaugural women's sevens world series in amsterdam where they lost out to powerhouse new zealand their only loss of the tournament and then again missing out on top spot at the european grand prix final after being brought back down to earth by a rampant england yet despite twice falling at the final hurdle the team is ultimately preparing for a bigger goal when i can but i want to produce good results as a team so that people notice us you know i mean the world cup is going to be in moscow so we're using this tournament's to gain further experience so that we play our best at our own world cup every afternoon dreams of competing in something as big as the world cup especially your home country where the men's and women's tournaments are being held together for only the second time and while russia's men

also have high aspirations at the two day event the spotlight has swung to the women after such a sterling few weeks one of the key aspects of success for russia's women's rugby sevens team is the fact that they are physically very fit and very fast. forwarded to me but it can always go on q oh it's our award in combination of almost two years for work with a goal to bring the girls to their peak for the world cup come on sure the favorites are still new zealand england and the us but we'll see rugby sevens is also about good fortune it was good weather in search one thing that i think is to our advantage the average speed of our team is much faster than others in other teams maybe only two or three players. in our team practically all seventy because it's a useful and effective skill that will come in handy when russia takes on the

world's best from july twenty eighth and the prospect of a rematch against favorites easier and or against england is something. the team is relishing when you go when you were not afraid of anyone because ran the op there with the bast reprove this at the world serious maybe there are areas where we lack a bit of technical discipline but that's because rugby is still quite new in russia and eurasia achieved so much and so we will time it shows just how determined we are. in three years' time rugby sevens will make its debut at the rio olympics and the twenty thirty world cup in russia might be the last ever such tournament so with a chance to make history both the nation's teams will be going all out for glory and with an eye on twenty sixteen might look at genco moscow. now to the best of the restroom this week's well live sport. on monday want to football's much anticipated transfers finally went through after

brazil's hottest prospects neymar underwent a medical and signed on the dotted line of a five year deal with spanish champions barcelona the twenty one year old arise from santos and could rival the you know messi is domination up front so eclipsing the reigning four time world player of the might be a tall order. so it's all out in a mall but on tuesday it was alfie does a german giants by munich bid farewell to coach pine his sixty eight year old leaves after two seasons in charge of the bavarian side and leading them to a unique travel of domestic and european titles former boss alone a coach pep guardiola is set to take over while hiding keys has been linked with a return to rail madrid. on wednesday n.f.l. champions the baltimore ravens were on it with a reception at the white house where coach john harbaugh gave president barack

obama a team jersey the ravens beat the san francisco forty nine ers thirty four thirty one in a thrilling championship game in february to capture their second super bowl crown in their seventeen year history. that on thursday king of sprinter usain bolt made a moving entrance at the diamond league meeting in rome and the six time olympic champion was the fastest out of the blocks in the men's one hundred meters he was outpaced by american justin gatlin who clocked nine point nine four seconds to beat the jamaican by one hundredth of a second gatlin claimed his only olympic gold so far in athens in two thousand and four before bolt dominated the next two games. on friday russian basketball champions tesco added another piece of silverware to that trophy cabinet the moscow club side looking want to fifty nine fifty four to

win the best of five finals series three one and secure their fourth the tb united league crown in five years twenty teams from the former soviet states as well as poland in the czech republic took part in this season's fifth year of the tournament. while on saturday the sky it wasn't the limit for some french pilots as they donated the aerobatics challenge event in prague the competition combined a six compulsory figures and ninety seconds of a freestyle board at speeds of around four hundred kilometers per hour on veteran pm the top managed at the best to lead the french one two three. and on sunday three time defending formula one champion sebastian vettel dominated the canadian grown create to win from pole for the first time fernando alonso moved

up from six to be to lewis hamilton to second red bull's mark webber was fourth though the race was marred by the death of a track motional by the recovery truck when moving a crash bettles said win of the season sees him search the six points clear of a long as over zero with kenny what i can of lotus in third after seven races. staying with motorsports where three time world champion if i was among the winners in the first of that russian stage of the world's touring car championship weigel brings us this pit stop report. with the sun scorching down on the newly built moscow raceway roughly eighty kilometers outside of the russian capital the six week end of the world touring car championship got on the way with three time champion yvonne miller in pole position off the course the cation. made no mistake in a race one of the day avoiding an early pileup to take full advantage of early on and although the red flag was deployed on lap four was never really in much danger for

the rest of the race registering his full feeling of the season. and in race two it was michelle mchale who took the top spot he did of the season after the dame battled it out for almost the whole race against morocco's men in the ninety who didn't even manage to finish despite a quick start spinning out of the race off the contact with brit rob hough. and in the final stages almost made it two wins out or two but for the gritty determination of the day four young weekend for a full day i made it to go to team i'm very pleased of course because we've all noise and that she's always been booked on but. but you could tell because my main bulk now which is you go to. it was very important for them to. victoria here. while it's deadly a really challenging task for the w.b.c.

the time is coming to us it was the first time that i thought the first real test for the moscow raceway it was only a battle it's meant to swell. and the novelty of a new country and an unknown race track had many locals hoping russian team love the sport led by russian and the sale kozlovsky and brit james thompson would take advantage of home comforts the latter managed to claim to know a valuable points and race won but kozlovsky has yet to register a single point this season plays well that's not i'll draw. well but it was difficult and i was stuck battling it out with the one or two cars around me which meant i couldn't move out further it's a pity i couldn't finish the second race but i have to say the track is first class and every driver i've spoken to speaks highly of it. so with the russian leg of the world touring car championship successfully concluded and yvonne miller already out of sight in the overall points table the drivers will now head to portugal for

around seven of twelve hoping to reduce the gap with the frenchman trying to r.t. . now next month top level golf returns to russia with moscow set to host its first european tour event since two thousand and eight and which of ample feet spoke with tournament director jose maria mora about what the capitals golf levis can expect. the two thousand and eight financial crisis was a setback for russia and for russian gulf with money short the country's european tour event was scrapped leaving one of the country's developing sports well than to top professional men's tournament golf is not i repeat sporting in russia so we're told it's nice to keep the link with that with professional golf unfortunately with him we need a pinto for a few years but i say they have the final task to come but it's successful the challenge sort of entered so level and now they've raised the bar and gone up to the big league russia wasn't completely starved of gold but

a second tier challenge tour event still taking place but with a low prize fund it is never going to attract top names or up and comers in contrast mrs russian open will be offering one million euros for the winner taking home a chank of one hundred sixty thousand i think it'll happen you're probably like in the past we have some really good players when the russian open and their help until toward becoming really good players i think is very lead to that we have you know a new young upcoming star winning the russian open number only winning majors in a few years the russian open will be sang which between two of golf's mage's the british open and the p.g.a. championship so the likes of the world's top two tiger woods and rory mcilroy won't be descending on moscow but jose marti has some order of things russia's golf courses and facilities are some of the best in europe and still expects a great four days of competition there is likely all the top top players will take

a week off but we don't have a lot of european tour that we know to come into play and they love that the been here before they love the country and i'm sure we'll have a very nice event russia's best known golf is probably the former world number one tennis star you get the caffeine and the two time grand slam winner switches attention to golf after retiring and the thirty nine year old has been given a wild card to compete at the russian open and he also has one eye on competing at the two. thousand and sixteen olympics in rio i think the one really important thing is that gold has become ali because for now so probably at the olympic committee in russia will pay more attention to the golf we hope to develop bring golf to the public so these are always good news for golf next month's event will take place and it's a live of course which was designed by legendary golfer jack nicklaus of two time ryder cup winner francesco molinari and the danes sort of plates and don't take parts russian go fund should be in for real treats at the end of july richard are

boldly dancey moscow. and finally it's summer in the city but russia's ski jumpers have been using their home advantage to prepare for the saatchi winter olympics at the games venue in the black sea resort the two ramps at the russkie gorky center will host the stray nordic combined tournament plus the four ski jumping events with the women's competition said to make its debut and the host nation looking to win their first ever medals in that sport. and that's a from the small staying by foot. nobody chooses to be a holes no one chooses to me and now sorrow. isidro's for the show. in the six pm get out six feet six. they were. school. class before the.

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