mark cavendish does not look a man carrying the weight of cycling history with them. han ever. at the grand apart in florence. t more relaxed than ever. at the grand apart in florence.— apart in florence. i don't have an hinu apart in florence. i don't have anything to — apart in florence. i don't have anything to lose. _ apart in florence. i don't have anything to lose. it's - apart in florence. i don't have anything to lose. it's not i apart in florence. i don't have anything to lose. it's not like| anything to lose. it's not like playing roulette where if i don't win here, i don't lose, too. do you know what i mean? i know it makes a nice story to kind of say that, but it's as simple as that. tn nice story to kind of say that, but it's as simple as that.— it's as simple as that. in italy, the call it's as simple as that. in italy, they call him _ it's as simple as that. in italy, they call him cannonball i it's as simple as that. in italy, i they call him cannonball cavendish. back home, the mancz missile, and he planned to be at home this summer. before the 2023 to

cyclist mark cavendish was awarded a knighthood along with the composerjohn rutter.iness correspondence went to speak with alan bates. alan bates, congratulations. thank you. what was your reaction when you found out? it was all a bit of a surprise. it was a bit out of the blue. and, also, the time it was given. i think i received it on the lunchtime of the first day of paula vennells being at the enquiry, had a look being at the inquiry, had a look at my emails and it was there. i thought "this is weird." is this a wind—up? yes. to me the things are just say no. but there are a lot of people who want me to have something and i think the paperwork said they wanted to know by end of that day whether i was prepared to accept it. so it was all a bit of a rush, but a very pleasant surprise all the same. what does this knighthood mean for you? well, i think it's another string to my bow to try and drive the rest of the campaign home for the group. we've got to get the funding for everybody, and that's been my priority now for some time. and if it helps there, then great.

mark cavendish said this would be the hardest start he had ever done.right record for stage wins. cavendish is one of the record 11 british riders taking part but none are expected to challenge for overall victory. the defending champion is back on his bike despite not having raced isn't a serious crash in april. slovenia's rider is likely to be the dane's main rival. the rest of the peloton on could not keep up. the frenchman left them behind with more than 30 to go and, with the help of his dutch team—mate, he held them off to claim the reader's yellowjersey for the first time in his career. manchester united have confirmed that the keeper will leave the club. she joined that the keeper will leave the club. shejoined united in 2019 and made 125 appearances. the dutch moto gp sprint race got off to a bad start for the six time champion. the dutch motogp sprint race at assen got off to a bad start for six time champion marc marquez, as the spaniard crashed out on just the second lap. italy's defending champion francesco bagnaia lead from pole, going on

mark cavendish said this would be the hardest start he had ever done.e sick on the descent. he finished inside the cut—off time and will be hoping his ordeal does not affect his bid to claim the outright record for stage wins. cavendish is one of the record 11 british riders taking part but none are expected to challenge for overall victory. the defending champion is back on his bike despite not having raced isn't a serious crash in april. slovenia's rider is likely to be the dane's main rival. the rest of the palette on could note keep up. the frenchman left them behind with more than 30 to go and, with the help of his dutch team—mate, he held them off to claim the reader's yellowjersey for the first time in his career. you are watching sports day. let's have a quick look at some of the other stories making the headlines today. manchester united have confirmed that goalkeeper mary earps will leave the club following the end of her contract, coming just days after captain katie zelem's departure was announced. earpsjoined united in 2019 and made 125 app

reaction from mark cavendish.s, mike. —— you don't want it, the psychology. -- you don't want it, the psychology-— -- you don't want it, the psychology. -- you don't want it, the t5 cholot , ., ., psychology. sarah has the weather for the weekend. _ good money, you can't make rainbows without rain and sunshine and that will be the story today into tomorrow. —— good morning. this is somerset and the weekend brings that changeable theme. sunny spells and in the sunshine, feeling reasonably warm out of the wind. but with those showers and thunderstorms, it will bring temperatures down. still rather cool, is temperature so far have been about three degrees below average and it is the coolestjune so far since 1981. so low pressure still with us. that will be bringing all the showers. we have already seen plenty across wales, south west england, south west scotland. these showers drifting slowly eastwards and others crop up through scotland, toward central and southern england, almost anywhere, you could catch a heavy a

britain's mark cavendish is already struggling at the back of the race — the manxman was sick headingite. and that's all the sport for now. the race to find a new president in iran continues — after none of the candidates in the snap poll secured a majority, it's been announced that a run—off vote will be held this coming friday. the election is being held after the death of ultra—conservative president ebrahim raisi in a helicopter crash last month. the contenders will be the reformist masoud pezeshkian, a heart surgeon, who won the largest number of votes. and his hardline rival is, saeed jalili, who came second, after taking an early lead. let's talk to siavash ardalan from bbc persian. tell us what will happen on friday. we will have the contest between these two candidates which was the difference of votes is very marginal, difference of1 million votes. the heart surgeon reformist candidate, he won 30 full cash he won 43% of the votes and the hardliner won 38%. the kingmaker here is the centre—right candidate, the third candidate was assumed to become the next president of iran,

the cyclist, mark cavendish, has been awarded a knighthood, along with the composer, john rutter.s correspondent emma simpson has been to speak with alan bates — a warning this report contains some flashing images. alan bates, congratulations. thank you. what was your reaction when you found out? it was all a bit of a surprise. it was a bit out of the blue. and, also, the time it was given. i think i received it on the lunchtime of the first day of paula vennells being at the enquiry, had a look at my emails and it was there. i thought "this is weird." "is this a wind—up?" yeah! to me these things are just say no. but there are a lot of people who want me to have something and i think the paperwork said they wanted to know by end of that day whether i was prepared to accept it. so it was all a bit of a rush, but a very pleasant surprise all the same. what does this knighthood mean for you? well, i think it's another string to my bow to try and drive the rest of the campaign home for the group. we've got to get the funding for everybody, and that's been my priority now for some tim

the cyclist mark cavendish has been awarded a knighthood, along with the composer john rutter.any in the opening match of the tournament. over the next month, 24 nations will battle for the title, with tens of thousands of fans cheering their teams on. despite struggling in recent tournaments, germany are among the favourites. footballjournalist tim vickeryjoins us live from rio de janeiro. thanks for being with us. a disappointing night for scotland and germany couldn't have hoped for a better start, could they?— have hoped for a better start, could they? no, they certainly couldn't. your _ could they? no, they certainly couldn't. your colleague - could they? no, they certainly couldn't. your colleague this | couldn't. your colleague this time yesterday morning asked me for a prediction. time yesterday morning asked me fora prediction. i time yesterday morning asked me for a prediction. iwent time yesterday morning asked me for a prediction. i went for 3-1 for a prediction. i went for 3—1 for germany. for a prediction. iwent for 3—1 for germany. i for a prediction. i went for

the cyclist mark cavendish has been awarded a knighthood, along with the composerjohn rutter.alan bates, and a warning, this report contains some flashing images. alan bates, congratulations. thank you. what was your reaction when you found out? it was all a bit of a surprise. it was a bit out of the blue. and, also, the time it was given. i think i received it on the lunchtime of the first day of paula vennells being at the enquiry, had a look at my emails and it was there. i thought "this is weird." is this a wind—up? yeah. to me the things are just say no. but there are a lot of people who want me to have something and i think the paperwork said they wanted to know by end of that day whether i was prepared to accept it. so it was all a bit of a rush, but a very pleasant surprise all the same. what does this knighthood mean for you? well, i think it's another string to my bow to try and drive the rest of the campaign home for the group. we've got to get the funding for everybody, and that's been my priority now for some time. and if it helps there, then great. that's wonderf

the cyclist, mark cavendish has been awarded a knighthood, along with the composer, john rutter. the bbc news website. we're at the halfway point in the general election campaign here in the uk. the politicial parties will be out campaigning again this weekend. it's now three weeks until the next government is formed. our political correspondent, hannah miller told us how the parties are going. three weeks to go, it does feel like a long time. it is worth saying, though, that some people will start voting this week when the postal votes start coming in. if we take a look and run through where the parties are at, labour broadly are pretty happy with how their campaign is going. they are miles ahead in the polls. i think over the coming days we can start to see their leader, keir starmer, campaigning in some more ambitious seats, which is an indication, really, of their confidence and their sense that they can afford to be a little bit more ambitious than they may have been going into the campaign. but he has faced some challenging questions about what he stands for, about the plan

olympic medallist mark cavendish says he's humbled to be knighted for sport and charity work.ng made mbes. actress and strictly winner rose ayling ellis for services to the deaf community. and strictly professional dancer amy dowden for fundraising and raising awareness of inflammatory bowel disease. most honours go to people not in the public eye over 25 years macmillan nurse anne gregg has worked tirelessly for patients with cancer in the orkneys. i was very flattered to be nominated in the first place, but to be honoured with an mbe is just incredible. in some ways it doesn't feel real. but yeah, i'm very humble and honoured at the same time. she's just one of many recognised for work in their local community. we'll be speaking to two of those who are to be recognised on the honours list, jasvinder sanghera who is receiving a damehood for services for the victims of child, forced marriage and honour—based abuse. and rory cellan—jones who is receiving an obe for services to journalism, and he used to work for the bbc. looking forward to talking to you. this is a very persona

also coming up on sportsday — mark cavendish says he has nothing to lose, as he prepares to take partof their last 16 tie against slovakia at euro 202a. they've been underwhelming so far, but did top their group to get through. our sports correspondent andy swiss joins us now.

although mark cavendish doesn't look like a man carrying the weight of history. s morning. when it comes to the yellow jersey, jonas vingegaard wants to make it three in a row, but nobody really knows what to expect, including him. the great dane as it raced since a crash in april put him in hospitalfor two raced since a crash in april put him in hospital for two weeks. everything here is a bonus. just that i'm here at the start line is a victory and from here if i make a result i will be very happy. tt result i will be very happy. it means the tag of favourite falls on tadej pogacar, provided a recent bout of covid—19 doesn't affect his form. he is after his own piece of history. nobody has won the giro d'italia than the tour since 1988. there is a hope there could be five or six chances to sprint for the 35th stage win. although he has no target in mind. t 35th stage win. although he has no target in mind-— target in mind. i would like to be u . target in mind. i would like to be u- there target in mind. i would like to be up there with _ target in mind. i would

i know we'll talk about mark cavendish in just a second, but surely mentally it must have some sort of man you write about a lot of bones, but they get bandaged up and they do come back, whereas a footballer was in agony when he's had about a half inch connection with his toe. and the other fellow, these guys were crash at 60km an hour or more. and get up. look where the cuts are. see they're not serious and jump back on his bike and race back up to the peloton and they are a tough bunch of riders, accidents happenin bunch of riders, accidents happen in cycling, especially in the tour de france, because it is the biggest race in the world. 45 riders in this year's tour are riding it for the first time. and of course , they it's time. and of course, they it's the ambition of their lives to take part in the tour de france and to win it well, there aren't many people who've done. >> i had the honour of spending a couple of hours with mark cavendish a couple of years ago, and we did a documentary and i was talking to him and he said, when asked about the tour de france, and it was that que

mark cavendish says he had things under control on the opening stage of the tour de france despite appearinghed last but one. at the opposite end, frenchman roman bardet won the stage with help from his team mate frank van den brook to claim the leader's yellow jersey for the first time in his career. one of the stories of the t20 world cup was virat kohli's surprising underperformance. not in the final, though. the indian batter timed his man of the match display perfectly to help beat south africa in barbados. he top scored with 76 as india set south africa a target of 177 to win. and although they were doing well in the chase, a flurry of late wickets denied them a first major international trophy. it's india's first global trophy for 13 years. their captain rohit sharma and former skipper kohli then both announced their retirement from international t20 cricket. normal order seems to have been restored in formula 1 with max verstappen starting on pole position for this afternoon's austrian grand prix. he won also won the sprint race on saturday and will line up ahead of british duo lando

it scandal cyclist mark cavendish has also been knighted, and there are damehoods for artist tracey emintress imelda staunton and designer anya hindmarch . and designer anya hindmarch. former prime minister gordon brown has also received the highest award possible. the champion of honour. the prime minister says that he will stay on as an mp if the conservatives lose the general election. rishi sunak says he'll fight to the last day as he responded to a question about a recent yougov poll , which shows that reform uk poll, which shows that reform uk has overtaken the tories for the first time. the reform uk leader, nigel farage, has suggested that he can be the voice of opposition to labour and elsewhere on the campaign trail. labour leader sir keir starmer and his shadow health secretary, wes streeting are promising 40,000 extra nhs appointments each week, but experts are questioning the funding details behind that pledge. meanwhile, lib dem leader sir ed davey is campaigning in surrey. he's pledging to scrap police commissioners to boost frontline policing and reform uk's nigel farage