and agony for geraint thomas, who misses out on taking the yellow jersey at the tour de romandie afterrashing just short of the finishing line. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. what a few days this could be for manchester city. on tuesday, they're hoping to reach their first champions league final. before that, they could be crowned premier league champions, if manchester united lose to liverpool at old trafford tomorrow. city did theirjob this afternoon, with a 2—0 win at crystal palace, asjoe lynskey reports. manchester city know they're close. a third title in four years is just two points away. if results go for them, they could have it sealed tomorrow. they played crystal palace three days on from a champions league semifinal so might have been rusty. christian benteke had this chance to give the home side the lead. and in a frustrating first half, city's timing was off. gabrieljesus thought he had scored but was offside. but even when city rotate their squad, they have goals in reserve. this was sergio aguero, starting and scoring. commentator: that's how you do it! he's n

and agony for geraint thomas, who misses out on taking the yellow jersey at the tour de romandie after

geraint thomas has won his first race since 2018 tour de france.was enough to secure victory — almost half a minute ahead of his ineos grenadiers team mate richie porte. frankie dettori has won his 20th british classic in the 1000 guineas today. riding the irish trained filly — mother earth, dettori convincingly held off his rivals at newmarket to give trainer aiden o'brien his fifth success in the race in the past six years. next to formula one, where lewis hamilton has shown — yet again — why he's a seven time world champion after he fought back brilliantly to win the portuguese grand prix ahead of his rival max verstappen, who he now leads by 8 points in the championship race. nick parrott was watching. lewis hamilton is facing one of the greatest challenges to his supremacy, sandwiched between mercedes team—mate valtteri bottas and max verstappen's red bull, not a great place to start. things soon got worse. kimmy raikkonen's first lap collision took the safety car out and on the restart max verstappen got the jump on hamilton. the world champi

welsh cyclist geraint thomas may have missed out on winning his first race for three years after whatformer tour de france champion was about to win the fourth stage and take the overall lead in switzerland, when his bike slipped just metres from the finish line. he's now 11 seconds behind the leader with the final stage tomorrow. there was an exciting finish to the first classic horse race of the season — the 2000 guineas. it was won by poetic flair in a photo finish at newmarket. and the result proved age is no barrier in racing — the jockey kevin manning is 54 and the trainer, jim bolger, 79. shaun murphy will play mark selby in the final of snooker�*s world championship after an extraordinary comeback and a day of epic semi—finals in sheffield. murphy had been 10—4 down to fellow englishman kyren wilson but he fought back to win17—12. he'll play three—time champion selby in the final which starts tomorrow in front of a full house at the crucible, the first indoor sporting event to have a capacity crowd since the pandemic. 13 years after he burst onto the diving scene — britain's t

after that dramatic crash yesterday, a victory finally for geraint thomas.r man, joaquin garcia, managed to reach the woman and keep her afloat until the police arrived. graham satchell reports. bell tolls at one end of london bridge, a collection of flowers to remember folajimi olubunmi—adewole, known to his friends asjimi. just over a week ago, jimi was on his way home from work, when he tried to rescue a woman who'd fallen into the thames. it was a remarkable act of bravery. also on the bridge that night wasjoaquin garcia. he heardjimi shouting, and ran over to help. he started to point to the river saying, "she's there, she's there." so i saw on the river, the girl. well, i actually saw two hands and one face just splashing, trying to keep on float. he told me, "are you going tojump? are you jumping?" and i said, "yes". jimi started to count like, "ok, let's do it. three, two..." and i couldn't think on it, so ijustjumped. and that's the last time i sanimi. it was cold, dark, dangerous. joaquin swam out towards the woman and eventually found her. she was

geraint thomas says he can laugh now about crashing yesterday after winning a race for the first timeswitzerland in second place. he finished third on the stage, but that was enough to take the overall victory almost half a minute ahead of his ineos grenadiers team mate richie porte. next to the final of the world snooker championship between mark selby and shaun murphy which is being played in front of a capacity crowd at the crucible theatre in sheffield. just under a thousand spectators are present, and shaun murphy has the edge — leading 5—3 — at the end of the first session. 18 frames needed to win the title, so a long way to go across today and tomorrow. you can watch the action right now on bbc two. frankie dettori won his 20th british classic in the 1000 guineas today. riding the irish trained filly — mother earth, dettori — who's 50 — convincingly held off his rivals at newmarket. it was also trainer aiden 0'brien's fifth success in the race in the past six years. and you can get much more on all those stories on the bbc sport website, as well as coverage of the portuguese gr

and there was agony for geraint thomas, who was denied victory on the fourth stage of the tour of romandiehe was on course to take the overall lead even if he hadn't won the stage, but the tricky conditions in switzerland took him by surprise. thomas eventually finished third and remains second overall ahead of today's final stage. it looked a nasty crash but he has tweeted so say he's 0k. "well, what a shocker of a final 100 metres. i had no feeling in my hands so when i tried to change gear, ijust lost my grip on the bars. i'm all good, though," he says. now on bbc news, here's the papers. hello and welcome to our look at today's front pages. with me is business journalist, john crowley and women's editor at the daily telegraph, claire cohen. the sunday times reveals that health officials are drawing up plans to offer school children the pfizer vaccine from september. the telegraph — it says the prime minister will try to save the union by investing billions on new road and rail links and treating scottish patients on english nhs beds. the express argues britain is now ready for what the

and geraint thomas has won his first race since the 2018 tour de france.shed third in the stage, but that was enough to take the overall victory almost half a minute ahead of his nearest rival. and that's all the sport for now, joanna. i'll have more throughout the afternoon. nhs workers at wales largest hospital are planting trees to offset the carbon emissions from treating covid patients in their intensive care unit. staff in the critical care unit at the university hospital of wales say they hope their woodland inspires other hospital trusts and industries to do the same. health, science and environment correspondent laura foster reports from the brecon beacons national park. when two the view from this hillside 'ust when two the view from this hillside 'us. . ., �* , when two the view from this hillside 'usi . ., �* , ., ' ., just couldn't be more different from the day job- — just couldn't be more different from the day job- i _ just couldn't be more different from the day job. i spent _ just couldn't be more different from the day job. i spent the _

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