he's now become the first chinese athlete to be nominated for the laureaus world's best sporting awards and bikes rode into the bolivian captial la paz but stephane peterha nsel retained the overall lead after driving his peugeot beautifully again and staying out of trouble. these fans not so much. they had time to dry off before seeing antoine meo win the bikes stage on his ktm. argentine kevin benavides is the overall leader. vestas11th hour racing held a slim lead over the rest of the fleet in the fourth leg of the volvo ocean race. that was after a thunderstorm on wednesday night which shook up the leaderboard. at 1300 hours gmt, the us—danish team emerged just a nautical mile clear of dongfeng race team and team akzonobel as they headed towards the equator. they are near the midway point of the 6,000 nautical mile journey between melbourne to hong kong. before the storm hit, the seven—yacht fleet had endured three days of windless torment in the doldrums. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. download the app too! from all the team at sport

wheelchair—bound lai chi—wai could be the first chinese athlete to win the laureaus world's best sportingg's lion rock. a car accident left him paralysed hip down in 2011, but now he's become an inspiration to millions. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. i'm nick marshall—mccormack, and that was your sport briefing for friday. tell me what you think about our talking point today. as president trump cancelled his visit to london, what do you think it means about the special relationship between the uk and the us. he said that he was not a big fan of the obama administration selling off the best uk embassy only to seller. lots of you have been getting in touch. thomas from ireland says it will not change anything. mr celtic says not buying the word cancelled, he isjust fea rful of the word cancelled, he isjust fearful of public reaction. 400 yea rs fearful of public reaction. 400 years is a long time, and juliana from tennessee says it would not wa nt from tennessee says it would not want this full in my country either. aa man want this full in my