the quick—step floors rider, who won the tour's first stage, held off peter sagan and andre greipel inan avermaet retains the leader's yellowjersey. the belgian, who took the overall lead on monday, avoided a crash that split the peloton with 5km to go. four—time winner chris froome finished safely in the bunch to remain 52 seconds further adrift, although he moved up one position to 17th. the golden generation are feeling blue, but les bleues are feeling golden. hello again. yesterday's fresher weather brought an end to a run of remarkable heat, really. somewhere in the uk over the last six days has seen temperatures into the low 30s, with the exception of yesterday's maximum temperature, which was at chivenor, in devon. we only got up to 26 degrees celsius. so for most of us, yes, there was much less humidity around. it did feel a good deal fresher than recent days. and it was a beautiful end to the day. this was the scene of the setting sun there in lincolnshire. now, looking at the weather picture for the early risers today, we do have a weather front across western scotland that w

the dutch rider was first across the finish line ahead of andr greipel and fernando gaviria, who werenting. a crash 17 kilometres from the line meant several of the overall contenders, including dan martin, lost around a minute to their title rivals. greg van avermaet retains the race leader's yellow jersey. england's cricketers have taken their three—match one—day series against india to a decider after winning the second match by 86 runs at lord's. joe root returned to form with a century and david willey hit 50 from 31 balls as england made 322—7. india slipped to 60—3 in reply and, despite the best efforts of captain virat kohli, who made a5, they were eventually all out for 236. the biggest thing for me today was the skill level on our lot lot higher than the previous game, and it's a lot to take from this international, particularly given the way we played at trent bridge. obviously, this was the final, but imagine asa obviously, this was the final, but imagine as a team... we were going hard, our bowlers and batsmen, and its positive after this game. that's all the sport for no

was won by frenchman on a de mar who shrugged off allegations of cheating from rival sprinter andre greipel to beat christophe laporte in the final sprint greipel has since apologized and retracted his comments french open final is dominant team has reached his tenth quarterfinal of the tennis season the top seed east past australian john millman six two six two at the german open in hamburg a twenty four year old austrian will face chile's nicolas yari for a place in this thing. yes ido rajiv's the silk way rally in russia with two stages remaining the saudi driver won the six stage from a lister to astrakhan which had to be short. by race organizers of to trench will rain. second overall after coming third in thursday stage khana mcgregor has avoided prison in the united states out of pleading guilty to disorderly conduct in new york the mixed martial arts fighter who was arrested in april as he and his entourage stole into the underground car park at the boquet center in brooklyn and smashed up a bus filled with fighters at the time of the brawl makarenko was angry at the sport's governi

he held off peta fagan and andre greipel in an excellent sprint finish for his second stage went out to see if top. those who vote for are more later that the thank you now londoners were offered some respite from the u.k.'s political turmoil as britain's royal air force marked its one hundredth anniversary it was the world's first independent air force when it was set up as a separate entity from the army and navy in one thousand nine hundred eighteen just fifteen years after the first ever powered flight queen elizabeth was among those admiring planes from the many eras of the of r.a.s history including the famous lancaster bomber and spitfire and hurrican fighters from the second world war amazing pictures look at that is it for me barbara sarovar in the mozzie it will be with you in just a few minutes with more of the day's news thanks for watching. it's like the wild west they can do anything and the really hard for them to get the all powerful internet is both a tool for democracy and a threat somebody who controls ten thousand dollars at home for the hundred thousand voices an

won by french men on the road to ma who shrugged off allegations of cheating from rival sprinter andre greipel to beat christophe laporte in the final sprint greipel has since apologized and retracted his comments. french open finalist dominic team has reached his tenth quarter final of the tennis season the top seed is passed australian john millman sixty six two at the german open in hamburg twenty four year old austrian will face chile's littlest yari for a place in the seventies. now former russian athlete turned whistleblower spoken of the pressure to use performance enhancing drugs as a middle distance runner up and over a period before u.s. congress hearing in support of a new u.s. law that would make doping in instructional competitions a criminal offense stepping over and her husband who is a former employee of the russian anti-doping agency lived in exile for four years for more experience when i was there up in russia i also believe the lake all that it's used because what i see around me it was the only athletes who you were using but. when i decided to try to fight it my husband a

greipel right now. i think he should have waited and had a cool head and kept his sprint going and i think he might have come closer to getting second place. >> and andre might have a point that he lost the stage to groenewegen because he had to deal with gaviria leaning on him for a moment. the if that's the case, if that's the determination, they will not take groenewegen's win away, but that might be cause for disqualification for gaviria. >> how do you think the rest of the sprinters feel? that first week, the sprints were dominated by sagan and gaviria. to have groenewegen win two in a row, the rest might say, hey, i think these guys are beatable. >> i think it's the teams. the teams are tired. every day you have to think about how hard they've been pushing, leading the peloton for hundreds of kilometers at a time. we talk to phillip gilbert in the car yesterday. i said how are you doing? he said i was flying. i'm exhausted now. they have one more big day to come tomorrow and then they'll be done. >> further behind than he thought he would be. that's how you could describe dan martin. he won two stages ago. he was involved in a crash at the 17 kil