the competition undulating pack was formed but after two two thousand meter high mountain stephen crozier they broke away from the group the dutchman lead the final climb to loud ways with two or neither and caroline thomas and competition favorites chris froome and tom de moura trailing behind pushing count on to his legion to his porsche just three and a half kilometers from the finish. and with the end almost in sight for amanda bowman but they both gave up on winning the stage leaving just five riders in the race for victory. thomas made a final attack at the last corner straight to the finish line for his second consecutive tour stage when. i was this rice is so hot. you never know how the body reacts and like i said yesterday. i'm still riders are firmly firmly still the man he's like i said you know is out there are three weeks of the victory extends thomas' lead over teammate and captain fruen to one minute thirty nine seconds. that's it your updates are more of the top of the hour don't forget to get all the racists around the clock on our website at c.w. dot com a little. glob o

the competition undulating pack was formed but after two two thousand metre high mountain stephen crozier broke away from the group the dutchman led the final time to loud when his wish to leave your garron thomas and competition favorites chris froome and tom to milan training behind for fake held on to his legion to have his porsche just three and a half kilometers from the finish. and misty and almost inside fremantle manpad did both gave up on winning the stage even just five riders in the race for victory. thomas made a final attack at the last corner sprint to the finish line for his second consecutive stage when. this race is so hard. you never know how the body reacts. like i said yesterday. i'm still rather firmly firmly still the man he's like i said you know i was roger three weeks the victory extends thomas' lead over teammate and captain fruen to one minute thirty nine seconds. to the c.h.i.'s international horse show in the german city of often now at home favorites have won the third consecutive team event marcos evening on that that too was germany's final ryder putting in

croatian fans making most of the noise in the ground the creation fans and the neutrals supporting crozier in this game this country of just four for a half million people brought so many people to this tournament and brought such great atmosphere to not just this fine with the semifinal as well a few days ago they really did bring it to life in style inside luzhniki stadium behind me tonight so we have to give them a lot of credit for that however you also have to give the french team a lot of credit for coping with this fear coping with the kind of hostile nature of the crowd inside the stadium and playing their game and being cool and calm and collected and being clinical with their chances as well and you could see with the celebrations at the end just how much it meant to their not just right at the end of the game but the goals from above as well with all of the subs coming out and celebrating with the players on the pitch you can see just how emotional force and a really fitting end to the tournament has given to so much emotion so much passion and so much entertainment as well well

the last time football crozier advances to the final of world cup twenty eighteen beating england to one end of the day and a nail biting much that went into extra time. thank her . thanks to ed henry ng the ng and her. whole ng was. i think is an incredible achievement for a country where the league is a minor league where the majority not just a majority i sing almost one hundred percent of the players they don't play in croatia sol they are people like. like myself working abroad and when you work abroad i seem to feel your country even in a in a different way so for them to go back to their countries and and to take a country like croatia to a world cup final is something amazing england of course they have a reason to cry but they have also a reason to be optimistic. and the team improved a lot in relation to previous appearances and the squad these young the majority of the players they can play the next world cup there's a mall in france they are having a nice drink and in their own homes all in the. not celebrating their victory but celebrate think that extra time. and celebr

football now crozier vance's the final of will come to the eighteenth meeting that last night to one of the nailbiting much the went into extra time. thank. you thank the ng thanks . again. i think is an incredible achievement for a country where the league is a minor league where the majority not just a majority i think almost one hundred percent of the players they don't play in croatia sold out people like. like myself working abroad and when you work abroad i seem to feel your country even in a in a different way so for them to go back to their countries and and to take a country like croatia to a world cup final is something amazing england of course they have a reason to cry but they have also a reason to be optimistic. and the team improved a lot in relation to previous appearances and the squad these young the majority of the players they can play the next world cup talking about creation in a country of only four million people and yet this will be that the state of the street today the second semifinal already. they seem to produce this kind of gritty but very talented very

they're very very confident that crozier will advance to the final against france this year and maybeget their revenge for the ninety ninety eight of the fifteen the semifinal of the world cup against france so i can find any fan of crazy today in zagreb or probably over gracious would say that croatia will lose this game or even or even draw they all believe that frazier will win some of them are more confident the others and they said it gratian will win two or three nil but the others will say to one for the grace of basically everybody is very confident they're ecstatic about this final and the shops are closing early today in song of and all of a gracious because people in workers who work in shops and anybody who works today obviously it's a working day once you get called early so that can prepare for the start of the match for the kickoff and obviously here in the central square in zagreb some ten thousand people were gather around to watch the game and probably if gratian wins this game the celebrations will go throughout the night and it's going to be very very noisy and ver

that moment on it looked really difficult and then of course my pappa get the ball halfway into crozier's. and he shoots from forty out and of course just the way it was for france today that went in as well. but you know we can talk about being fair or unfair that this that's not the issue here let me be very clear about this france are the world champions and they do serve to be the world champions for me consistency in that they're better team these build it up they turned it on what they needed to that's big players and the form of power for. these men again today they ever looking think if you in this complication in the competition it can always get the fourth goal here to the public and this is just the way it went for france today a shot from that distance i was in and let me show you here because one of the things that come out through the week one of the pick statements is data and over and who's come out and he's done this hey look at me now i'm a really good defender on your criticize but in fact i'm one of the best defenders in the world that's what he said after the game aga

seen credible quality of football in these world cup houses and then we we have one of the teams crozier in the final. a lot of people don't understand why they're in the final how they could get there with the challenges they face so but but there is of course is another challenge what we've we've seen him last year is this incredible party that people are having everywhere on every square in every protest in st every and everywhere now. we know there are different rules and different laws and. what how are you dealing with all this well for us i mean it's important to also point out that we've hosted major events throughout our history you know two thousand and fifteen we had to have a world cup you know as just one example so we're used to actually hosting major events and we used to welcoming people from different walks of life in different parts of the world and to our country and simply put everybody's welcome and everybody will be having a good time yes there will be maybe slight slight differences you know and particularly let's address it you know let's address the white elephan

its brand through to the final we all know that went nike though can be very pleased both fronts crozier will wear the browns logo in the biggest football match in the world. no matter who wins the world cup nike is claiming victory at least among sports outfitters along with their colors the french players will be bearing the swash as well the croatian team the final marks a milestone for the company we've had three of the four teams break the semifinals and then two of our teams made the finals which is a first time for nike we've been in the game of football for over twenty years and it's the first time that we've ever had it all night the final with both teams wearing like the. nike says the kits from both teams are selling like hotcakes but it's not just about the presale spike for nike but the longer term boost to the brand that could prove helpful for the sports apparel maker at a time when it's trying to extend its reach. we see china overall as a tremendous growth opportunity for us as a company that we believe for and the ourselves will help us accelerate our business so one of

expects or gracious to win nobody talks about the defeat so you can't find anybody who would say ok crozier will draw lose this game do they believe that this team could manage to make even bigger success than do you mean one thousand nine hundred eighty two when you came to the semi milo wanted to play symbolic of his right. son in fact. lemmings joins us now from a fan zone in london lady is football coming hard. over this is sunday a summer that is never going to be put on a day where the ball no football comes home and inverted commas and suddenly what i want to mean singing for the poles the way all the song i saw this pulling guns run to the subby find those with this young on how would it say he has turned genuinely insulate the fans of the county it's a hard target tens of thousands of them this is very high still you're right but i feel that anger will become i should despite all i says strength of talking. about food oh go on with the whole thing about his remarkable considering the situation of the out that you're coming into that's a little bit where people just weren't expectin

well as good as crozier have been i think this is by far going to be the biggest challenge at the tournamentso far france are a totally different proposition to england they are much more talented side they're very solid in defense as well they can have kept for clean sheets this world cup already. around and some of the t.t. is sense about just look rock solid talented attacking players to like killing them by playing on one greaseman who have been through the best players of the tournament for me aside from that as i already mentioned croatia have been to extra time not three times in the last three games not to put that into context they've essentially played a whole extra game compared to france who have won all of their knockout games in normal time at some point you have to think that physically that's going to affect them so they'll need all of that fighting spirit that we've seen from them to come through this one that's what i'm looking forward to the final i'm sure so are you oliver. thank you very much for that update from moscow and turning away from football and tennis there has