table, they won 24 —5, ireland took the lead but with the sides tied five—all in the first half, carys phillipsore wales' fourth, giving them back—to—back wins to end of their six nations campaign. in padua, manuela furlan s try four minutes from time gave italy the bonus point they needed to finish second in the table, as they beat france 31—12. to cycling and britain's adam yates has extended his overall lead after stage five of tirreno—adriatico in italy, yakob fulsang claimed the stage win and made it two out of two for the astana team, whilst yates — riding for mitchelton scott came in second but retains the race leader's blue jersey with a 25—second advantage over the rest of the field. while there was victory for team sky in the south of france as their rising star eggan bernal took the overall victory in paris—nice, the final stage into nice was won by yon izagirray. some of british gymnastics' biggest names were in action this weekend in the british championships. the two—time olympic champion max whitlock did what he does best, taking gold in the men's masters pommel final, repeating