overall favorites the all blacks won the inaugural rugby world call back in one nine hundred eighty seven which also took place in new zealand they've had a world title drought since then despite being one of the world's top teams the whole time the kiwis met argentina in the quarter finals who despite a goal on display just couldn't stay with the home team with thirty three to ten wins sending a strong. a message to upcoming rivals australia. good news is that captain richie mccaw will play again for the all blacks despite a foot injury wallabies are well aware they've beaten new zealand in both the ninety ninety one and the two thousand and three world cup semifinals none of those wins came in eden park where the all blacks haven't lost australia since one thousand nine hundred eighty six the aussies may need to load up on that scoring points after beating south africa eleven nine in the quarterfinals their upcoming opponents putting up three times as many points obeyed against a weaker side the team's high performance director thinks he's got the winning recipe after recall your twenty

favorites the all blacks will battle australia on sunday but not before take to the field against france on saturday. wales were far from favorites going into the tournament and took advantage of their low profile with gruelling preparations the side widely credited in their pre world cup training camp and poland as the reason for the player support fitness throughout their campaign it's that kind of practice making for a near perfect run so far including a twenty two ten win against ireland in the quarterfinals rees three slim the one battle casualty event great victory thirty his shoulder laden again coach warren gatland now putting his confidence in james hope will be filling in for his agent teammate at flyhalf that move will put all time caps leader stephen jones into the backup role for saturday's clash with how good he is and. we've been lucky that we haven't got too many injuries in this competition but having to call it. someone to come in the saw and he joins on the bench just a good position with. the team position. the french will also be bringing in a different body to fill

it's taken six long years but you zealand are the last pocket in a rugby world cup final the all blacks simply too good for australia in the tournament second semifinal oakland's eden park on sunday i see all black on the lucky home phones would take it's got the witness a kiwi side intent on picking their birth and next weekend's decider the only try of the game coming just four minutes came from but the display all support of penalty kicking from thirty meant musial and wouldn't need any more touchdowns twenty to six in the final score the all blacks now take on france in the final seeking a second world cup triumph. footballer saskia moscow's dramatic loss of form shows little signs of improving in the russian premier league their once long time leaders now is just one win from their past half a dozen games after collapsing against f.c. chara things were looking bright for the army men when i was a grabs free kick from wagner lover in the area five minutes from the break the hosts then doubled their lead straight after half time see to do via the man heading home to kill. but to wrec

the all blacks' victory was just the icing on the cake.lex thomas, cnn, auckland, new zealand. >> well, after the party comes the hangover. for new zealand, pretty expensive. 31 u.s. million dollars to be precise. how much their taxpayers are in the red for hosting the world cup even though the international board is walk ago way from the event with a profit of more than $150 million. so is that multi-million dollar loss to the country actually money well spent? alex thomas put that question to rugby world cup ceo martin snedman me snedman. >> we went in with the eyes open. we'll make a loss of $39 million. the challenge was to turn that into an investment as opposed to lay loss-making venture to make sure we created the platform that new zealand could lever itself off in a profiling sense and business sense and our challenge also was to invigorate new zealand to actually do that. two or three years ago i was thinking people are taking a little bit too long to get themselves under way here so part of the role of the team was to light a bit

good news is they can't and richie mccaw will play again for the all blacks despite a foot injury while the bees are well aware they've beaten new zealand in both the ninety ninety one in the two thousand and three world cup semifinals none of those wins scheme it eden park though with all blacks having lost australia since one thousand need six the aussies may need to load up on that score important jeff to be the south africa eleven nine in the quarterfinals their upcoming opponent splitting up three times as many points obeyed against the weaker side the team's high performance director thinks he's got the winning recipe after recall your twenty five to twenty home win over new zealand in august there from the weekend and the first forty minutes of brisbane the guys the keyways and we are in close to the point to go for a good performance coach robbie deans emphasizing team chemistry to be demeaning he would line up unchanged from their last outing so all eyes and pressure on the all blacks as they work hard to turn even park into rugby title paradise for the first time since one tho

the all blacks went on to dominate the match winning by 14 points.uld have been an awful lot more. that triumph sparked seens of jubilation at eden park and especially here at the fan zone on kwan's wharf in central auckland. delight and relief for the all blacks fans where they'll face france in a repeat of the title match from 24 years ago which is when the august blacks won their first lonely rugby world cup title. alex thomas, cnn, new zealand. >>> australia's fans were left with a nasty taste of defeat in their mouths, looking at what some of our australian friends are been saying on facebook. saying we just didn't really support. these supporters in sydney had high host that the wall la bees could make it to finals. the aussies pack up and make a three-hour, relatively short flight home. >> i'm very upset by the outcome of the match. obviously on the outcome of the day i think the best team won. i think australia played a lot better than they've played in the last few weeks. new zealand played very, very well. as i said, i think they deserve to

if you fall into the all blacks are after all a superior key they have a great chance to win and we'll try to do the same defending against the kiwis for the entire eighty minutes is impossible so we will have to go on the our fence of ourselves and cause problems for their defense as. the n.f.l. is once again taking its gridiron spectacle over seas with the tampa bay buccaneers set about cargo pairs in london the books preparing to enjoy their second british experience in three years visiting various teams though wasting little time getting adjusted to the new cultural climate cricket on the menu for veterans jay cutler and brian urlacher tucker quarterback josh freeman we saw his first n.f.l. action in the english capital almost two years ago the twenty nine year old the ending to put right at thirty five seven drubbing by new england while running back ernest graham is especially glad to curry his love of the game into foreign territory. as always for this to your brain is a game of. the world ok i'm sure. you know i've been coming you know taking on a culture here as well so this i

frankly who complies with the mature certainly we have always thought we have always said that the all blackswere the best team of all time but tonight i think our team was great even tremendous for you but it was difficult when you did just a tiny bit more here. now football when the russian premier league leaders in it have retained their top spot following a three one away victory to restore faith we visited nihilists open this scoring has done it registered in a logo there to militant defend smaller front of the fire from the area so the referee had no other option books a point to the sport but it's a look which make no mistake. by the second minute extended early to three goals headed home after a cross to become want to go back straight after the break but that was it for the house so we want to finish still on top of the standings. sponsor moscow meanwhile have got fourth in the standings has a fresh f.c. tone at the luzhniki stadium fully opened the scoring for the muscovites ten minutes brazilian striker double delayed just before the break se had plenty of time to fire his powerful

this is certainly we have always thought we always said that the all blacks were the best team of alltime but tonight i think i would seem was great even tremendous for you but it was difficult we needed just a tiny bit more. now football when the russian premier league leaders and they have retained their top spot following a three one away victory tour a stove they visited ninety minutes to open this coring has done it registered an hour go there for two minutes and defend smaller now alexander before a few in the area so the referee had no other option but to point to the spot and it's a look which make no mistake that turning now by the thirty second minute is in it extended l.a. to three girls who hired head of how to cross to become alter called largo but straight after the break but that was it for the house so for want to finish and still on top of the standings i. i. start to moscow meanwhile have gone forth in the standings as if fresh rockport f.c. tom at luzhniki stadium for nail marks opened the scoring for the muscovites with ten minutes brazil a striker double delayed j

frankly who can possibly be more sure certainly we have always thought we always said that the all blacks were the best team of all time of the tonight or think our team was great even tremendous for you but it was difficult to just a tiny bit more here. now football when the russian prime a little it is they may have retained their top spot following a free one away victory to restore the visitors needed nine minutes to open the scoring as planned and registered another goal there to minutes in defend either smaller file excitable in the air or so the referee had no other option but to point to the sport so look at each making no mistake that turning now. to second minutes an extended belly to free the fire of idaho must take process to become an old one go back straight after the break but that was it for the house so three want to finish and from top of the standings i. partook most criminal have gone forth in the standings as their fresh sitter almost losing the stadium for nail merrick suki opened the scoring for the muscovites ten minutes and then was in a strike doubled the lead ju

frankly look i'm hostile to these emotions certainly we have always thought we always said that the all blacks are the best team of all time but tonight i think our team was great even tremendous for you but it was difficult when you did just a tiny bit more here. now football when the russian premier league leaders in a have retained their top spot following a three one away victory to restore visitors needed nine minutes to open this has done it registered another go there for two minutes in defend smaller to front or behind in the area so the referee had no other option but to point to the spot on a look which make no mistake that by the thirty second minute extended their lead to three girls headed home after a process to become also called why go back straight after the break that was it for the house so three one a finished and still on top of the standings i. thought the most good meanwhile have gone forth in the standings as if fresh to see tom at the luzhniki stadium for mail opened the scoring for the muscovites ten minutes brazilian striker double delayed just before the break i see

from a niggling foot injury while flyhalf colon slate deputize is for the injured dan carter the all blacks of the. overwhelming favorites for this one and say they will cope with the expectation. first of all. you're not going to. see this is. surely a new look at what we've got as a. prize at the top of. a few words big big. no but we've had a lot of big riches in the past from the scripts been through a lot of them with i've decided grand slams will reflect tops or what have been big matches and this is not a big. meanwhile whilst coach warren gatland has called his place fantastic ambassadors after his side beat ireland on saturday to set up a semifinal with france the irish entered the clash is life favorites but it was their opponents who started as they meant to go on shane williams is trying to sell touchdown of the first half wells going in at the break ten three teams were level five minutes into the second period when the girls went but that was to be these highlights of what he does their twelve point win eventually secured with wales third try of the day i don't think that even

so new zealand trance eleven rugby world cup champions the all blacks try a thing by the narrowest ofmargins over a french team and not clones it may have been the love with scoring decide ever but it was also one of the most exciting run try a place for the sides we try to work out going over for the house fifteen minutes in our french captain to read this touchdown eight minutes after the break i was a student all pouty would prove crucial eight to seven running school ends and popped the all black stuff to celebrate the second world crown. the guy's a good one. and there is outstanding. i was going through a lot together as richard c. and a lot of the guys try the last world cup. quarter final and the witnesses. there's not words for it quite frankly the contrast of the museum a sure certainly we're always told we always said that the all blacks are the best team of all time but tonight i think i would seem was great in tremendous for you but it was difficult when you did just a tiny bit more here. now football when the russian prime a little it isn't it have retained their top spo

easy lindsay fought back against a determined argentina to win thirty three ten in oakland the all blacks struggle to a certain selves in the history of the bellows try and philippe components conversion gave the underdogs a shock seven six lead while the all blacks battle to school first try. for the first time in actually twelve years seven penalties from pity we will walk down the before tries from here and read and brad the one made the quarter final say however the victory was marred by a growing injury to flyhalf colonsay who can sell for a place star dan carter and twenty two year old aaron cruden came on after thirty three minutes but coach graham henry was still happy to reach his maiden semifinal . bloody amazing. plays with game i thought was a tough game of football and i thought by sides play particularly well. i just praise with the composure of our fellows they were under a lot of pressure at times and keep the heat and. play with a lot of composure good said peace. now another new sebastian vettel has become the youngest formula one driver to win back to back world titles

defending champ in south africa in the quarter finals and will play new zealand in the same after the all blacks eventually i will pound argentina all the wallabies got a gritty eleven points to nine when in wellington both sides were not expecting to meet so we're really going to straight he finished second in a group behind our in to set up the showdown and were ahead and eleven for me when james four went david there after south africa turned over the ball at the wrong end james o'connor a mistaken version but he did not miss a penalty attempt to give his side an eight year old lead although that was cut eight three by the break after more than stein kicked over for the springboks and his then gave them the lead with a penalty go. and it's up though. and with half an hour left south africa where nine that's how it's stayed until eight minutes until the end penalty was awarded to the wallabies for this infringement and james o'connor slotted over to give them an eleven nine lead astray hung on by soaking up immense pressure from south africa making almost three times as many tackles after the

south africa eleven nine to set up a semifinal against favorites and hosts new zealand after the all blacks came back to argentina the wallabies triumph despite having just twenty four percent of possession of a remarkable quarter final in wellington the two powerhouses going to expect. to me so i wouldn't be but did so after strictly finish second in apple behind island and james paul went after eleven minutes to put the wallabies head off to south africa turned over the poor at the wrong end jens economists' the conversion but didn't miss a penalty attempt to give his side and i need a lead that was cut by the break off the moon staying with the springboks and he dang gave them a late with a penalty and a drop goal puts that africa nine eight and that's how it stay eight minutes from the end the penalty was then awarded to the wallabies for this infringement and iconic kate over to give them an eleven nine story home loan officer taking the men south africa pressure making all my free time. as the springboks joy for the wallabies but heartbreak for south africa peter de villiers stepped d

themselves out in russia and would cheer the bears on just like they would try and cheer on the all blacks but when the game would finally get underway the russians were in for a rude awakening as they really found it very difficult to compete with the case and power of the australians and especially at the breakdown where the australians offloads. just a little disappointed we were in all of them really in the first twenty one minutes which is natural you know a lot of these guys they only see on the television play in super rugby in training missions but once we overcome the fact that they are human like everybody else we showed what we can do in this experience to stand all these players in great stead and you know hopefully the more excuses like we've hired this struggle that the better we will become and we will really become challenges at this level well after the initial shell shock the first twenty minutes for bears really came into the game there are produce some fantastic attacking rugby and the great thing about their performance at this tournament is they're learning from their

men to new zealand wouldn't need any more touchdowns twenty six the final score the all blacks take on france in the final seeking a second world cup try. for. dramatic loss of form shows little signs of improving in the russian premier league they want long time leader just one win from their past half a dozen games after collapsing against f.c. turk things were looking bright for the army man when. wagner love in the area five minutes from the break the hosts then doubled their lead straight after half time say to do via the man heading home to tell. the to wreck with get back their first school come. from a lightning break so fast that the summer month burley caught up xander public getting to finance the point was secured with their very next attack moderate c.e.o. the squirrel with the c. ask a shell stopper all at sea to chew the final score c.s.k. remain a couple of points adrift of leaders in. front speak because the leaders from st petersburg played out to draw themselves at home to dinner on the moscow in the weekend's big game it was the hosts who looked the more dangerous e

for quite frankly who can possibly move certainly we have always thought we always said that the all blackswere the best team of all time but tonight i think i would seem was great even tremendous for you but it was difficult when you did just a tiny bit more. now football were in the russian premier league leaders in it have retained their top spot following a free one away victory tourist stuff the visitors needed nine minutes to open the scoring as danny registered another goal there two minutes in defend either small like a foul aleksandr but in the air or so the referee had no other option but to point to the sport so look at each making no mistake they're turning now by the thirty second minutes an extended their lead to three goals be fired at how much take process to become an old one go back straight after the break but that was it for the health so through when it finished and did it on top of the standings i. partook most criminals have gone forth in the standings as their fresh rock bottom sit almost an easy case to do for nail marks simply opened the scoring for the muscovites

frankly the accomplice of the disease certainly we have always thought we have always said that the all blacksare the best team of all time tonight i think our team was great even tremendous for you but it was difficult we needed just a tiny bit more here. now i thought we were in the russian premier league leaders really have retained their top spot following a three one away victory to restore visitors needed nine minutes to open this scoring has done it registered in a logo there for two minutes in depend smaller and it's front of the fire from the area so the referee had no other option but to point to the spot else on a look which make no mistake that by the thirty second minute extended their later three goals higher headed home after a process to become known to hold one goal but after the break that was it for the house so for one to finish still on top of the standings i. still think most good meanwhile have gone forth in the standings as if fresh put some f.c. at luzhniki stadium for nail opened the scoring for the muscovites with ten minutes brazil and striker double dealing with ju

quite frankly the composite of the certainly we have always thought we have always said that the all blackswere the best team of all time but tonight i think i would seem was great even tremendous for you but it was difficult when it is just a tiny bit more. now football when the russian premier league leaders in it have retained their top spot following a three one away victory to restore faith they visited nihilists open this scoring has done it registered an hour ago there were two minutes in defend smaller aleksandr before if in the area so the referee had no other option but to point to the spot alexander look which make no mistake that by the thirty second minute was in it extended their lead to free goals headed home after a process to become altered called one go back straight after the break but that was it for the house so we want to finish and still on top of the standings. stuff like moscow meanwhile have gone for finlay standing says a fresh f.c. tome at luzhniki stadium for nail marks opened the scoring for the muscovites with ten minutes brazilian striker double delayed just

the wednesday with the all blacks after the break while. seven had. some sad news a member of the russian olympic ski jumping team has been killed in a car crash pavel curlin who was twenty one died in a road accident near his hometown of mission of god on sunday morning to his friends were also in the car and are in a serious condition in hospital corralling was a medal hope for the sochi olympics in two thousand and fourteen and was a member of the russian impi team that competed in bank and had made up. three times in seventy nine world cup a vent most recently a second place finish here in germany in january this year. and tennis andy murray has won his second title in two weeks with victory over rafael nadal at the japan i can and the dow was the defending champion and had sent mary crashing out of the she ever looked like he was a bank from flick another painful defeat after taking the first set six three. one in thailand the thailand open last week bounce back leveling the match and then taking the deciding set to love for his fourth title of t

watching this force and make all the headlines back in charge of the courts is the skipper the all blacks against argentina in the world cup quarterfinals as a strategy a take on defending champion south africa. plus on the brink of glory sebastian vettel needs just a point in japan to retain his pulled me to one crown we've the latest from tokyo. where andy murray fighting for revenge against bogey man rafael nadal if you can find. the start over the rugby world cup first strike you are taking on defending champion south africa in the quarter finals in south africa have come from behind to lead by nine so strongly a story now leading by eleven points to nine after south africa had come from behind to lead down for the wallabies are ahead after a try from jane's call will early on the full time whistle fast approaching in that game. while the winner of that game will play the winner of the other quarterfinal with the new zealand and argentina that kicks off shortly in wellington with all blacks captain richie mccaw declaring himself fit for the match as a skipper recovering from a nigglin

so what is the black as you say no longer exists? >> what i'm saying is we allhave the ability to define it for ourselves. before there was a multiplicity of visions of what he meant to be black and now there's the multiplicity of multiplicities. part of what we are grappling with intern with the issue is one of the questions they asked everybody is what is the centrifugal force of black mass? what is the theme that pulls us together and unites all of us and not specific to us that breaks us apart from white people? the experience of racism. he en masse, we don't share a culture and certainly not as tautly as we are parents and grand parents. >> but it's because we are an extension. >> one question and one question only. >> i mean, asking people what is the thing coyness altogether? nobody had an answer. the question is falling apart and we had to abandon it because no one had anything close to an answer. i think there are a broad set of biological terror or is takes by which we signifies but. but there are some people we know who does signify is black but they

blackness and expanding, but we all still must deal with the crucible called racism, and it has a pernicious impact on the modern black persona. modern racism is, as a great indian writing posits in the most mind-blowing analogies i've encounters like the president pardoning one turkey each year before thanksgiving. at a speech in mumbai, roy broke it down. every year in a show of ceremonial magnanimity, the president spares one particular bird and amendments another one. of after receiving the presidential pardon, the chosen one is sent in frying pan park, virginia. the rs of the 50 million turkeys raided for thanksgiving are slaughtered and eaten. conagra foods, the president who has won the presidential turkey contract, says it trains the lucky bird to be social bl to interact with school children and the press. [laughter] that's how new racism in the corporate era works. a few carefully-bred turkeys, the local elites of various countries, a community of wealthy immigrants, the occasional colin powell or condoleezza rice, some writers are given absolution. the remaining millions are evict

zealand wouldn't we didn't all twenty to sixty final score there and all blacks in france in the final sicking second world cup trophy. and job hadn't been done yet and i think it's really important. we understand that and we got feedback on the ground by the next two guys and. this is pretty cool i can do is repeat what i've just seen i think i threw the guy's character could not. ask for more than a. few. feeds was quite a stream. one more girl to russia's overall not a whole on the final day of the artistic gymnastics world championships in tokyo the russian athletes has won the women's floor exercises her it in was flawless and the judges gave her the marks. closest rival china by only sixty seven thousand points she eventually finished second in one of the united states completed the podium so it's in russia finished the tournament in the overall standings with chinese gymnast on top and the americans in seconds. in tennis and tomorrow has won the shanghai masters in china that's after the brits in the final of the defending champion needed an hour and forty five minutes to win th

it's taken sixteen years but at last back in a rugby world cup final the all blacks simply too good for the tournament second semifinal and spit in proc on sunday was a self black and the lucky. ticket to a place secular side intent on booking the next week and decide to try the game coming just four minutes from manu a display of superb kicking from play with new zealand wooden a dynamo twenty to sixty finals for the and all blacks to confront in the final sticking second world cup title or her job hasn't been done yet and i think it's really good. we understand that and then we get feedback on the ground by the next two days and. ok all i can do is repeat what i do see guys i threw the guy's character who was subpoenaed could not. ask for more than everybody took the few. defeats was. enough when i said that one more goal to russia's overall medal haul on the final day of the artistic gymnastics world championships in tokyo the russian athletes has won the women's floor exercises her return was flawless and the judges gave her the top marks how often are so the closest rival china by

the thrilling kurtley beale today the fullback missed his side's twenty to six something by the all blacks in the semifinals for the string poll wales who were sent off who bad. warburton in fact was sent off against france they will enter the tie is slight favorites today which gets under way in iraq in two hours time. ok it is the main event on sunday which has rugby fans celebrating the front's taking on host new zealand for world cup glory the all blacks trained away from the cameras but libby who held an open session mark leave on looking to drastically boost his size defense after conceding a stinging five tries to the home nation in their thirty seven seventeen per defeat however historically the french have known how to deal with the kiwis in the knockout stages they've dumped them twice before but new zealand lifted the webb ellis trophy by painting from the north pole tournament twenty four years ago the home side certainly are twelve on the. i don't start reading it i know it's a good you know done exactly what we've done of it or. i can fly on sunday at nine o'clock and you kno

it's the scenes the rugby faithful have been waiting for for twenty four years the all blacks claiming the twenty eleven world cup on home soil that the crown coming in one thousand nine hundred seven also won in new zealand plenty of time passing since that very first world cup final and all blacks right to work much harder for their second and it to some victory over made on the adults front instead of a much bigger weren't as expected by many regardless that almost quarter of a century wait is over for new zealand with webb ellis trophy paraded around town to auckland to the delight of all. the great players. ok have to do it on more sports news from around the globe for in toys time who not weather is next good buy. sure is that so much of the spirit ali i mean it was never real serious weapons of mass mobilization you tube facebook and twitter are your favorite tools able to bring segments of society together in the name. but i'm dumb but i still struggle for thirty australia in new zealand in the early nineties so you get to the man. if you want to have sex go and have sex. someo

which has rugby fans celebrating the front's taking on host new zealand for world cup glory the all blacks trained away from the cameras but libby who held an open session mark leave on looking to drastically boost his size defense after conceding stinging five tries to the home nation in their thirty seven seventeen per defeat however historically the french have known how to deal with the kiwis in the knockout stages they've dumped them or twice before but new zealand lifted the webb ellis trophy by beating france at the inaugural tournaments twenty four years ago the home side certainly aren't on the up. or the. good you know the exactly what we've done. so really. well. you know the tools rocks. and dr james will be doing that and i still want to. sign feelings that we have. and it's a great night of the. yeah the pressure was certainly on let's move the goal for luke donald among seven golf first time for the lead of the children's miracle network classic the world number one chasing dollar signs spotting webb simpson in the hope of becoming the first man in history to win the europea

arch rivals new zealand who fought back against a determined argentina to win thirty three ten the all blacks struggled to assert themselves in the first term as. try and leave it. the pi was conversions gave the underdogs a shock seven seats leave room but failed to score a first half try for the first time in a world cup match in twelve years what seven penalties them anyway who wore down the puma's four tries here and read brad thor world fine aside however the victory was most by going injury to fly off on inside himself with by stop down comforter and twenty two year old aaron cruden time on after thirty three minutes but graham henry still happy to reach his final bloody amazing. right guys praise the guy i thought was a target of football and yeah i thought by sides play particularly well. i was just raised with the composure of our fellows they were under a lot of pressure charms and keep the. can play with a lot of composure good said pace again a four point. tennis now and andy murray has won his second title in two weeks after coming from a set down to beat defending champion rough