portugal's rui costa won the race overall.nwhile world champion peter sagan won the second one—day classic of the season — the kuurne—brussels—kuurne race — but there was a good result for welsh rider luke rowe, in the black and blue of team sky, who finished in third place behind sagan. barry geraghty is out of the cheltenham festival due to injuries sustained in a fall at kempton yesterday for that he has ridden the winner at the last 15 festivals but he suffered broken ribs and a punctured lung. he was due to ride a horse trained by mcmanus. more sport on the bbc news channel throughout the evening. next, meet the author. sara baume has written a novel that deals with one of greatest contemporary problems, and perhaps her own experience too — the feeling of loss, maybe hopelessness, among young people who think that the opportunity they'd been brought up to believe in is an illusion. her book a line made by walking uses artwork as a structure. she was an art student herself in ireland and the story is told by the narrator f

though won two stages for the bmc cycling team and his form was enough to see off fabio aru and rui costa and third respectively. iam i am really happy i could take two stages. it is bold and i could have dreamt of. it is at perfectly for me and a perfect start to the season. i was like to start the season in good shape and anomaly it is set for the rest of the season. commissioner adam silver says the nba will continue its push into africa announcing on the weekend that the league will return tojohannesburg with an exhibition game. but ahead of the all—star game which tips off in the coming minutes in new orleans the build up has been somewhat political — the league's foreign players are being targeted by us president donald trump's travel restrictions. so what does adam silver make of it? the answer is, i do have concerns about travel bans, putting aside the justification for them for a second because i do not have access to the same intelligence or security information, obviously, that people in the government do but we are business based on global mobility. asi business based on globa

overall contenders the sprinters dropped away on the final climb leaving the belgian to ride away from rui costahe race leaders red jersey. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. if you're an arsenal supporter, look away, if you are a bayern munich supporter, you beat arsenal 5—1 in the opening leg of the last 16 of the opening leg of the last 16 of the champions league! and also real madrid came back to win 3—1 against napoli. you'll find that all that all on the website. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello. wednesday was a real mixed bag of a day right across the british isles. for some, after a dull start, it turned out to be a really glorious day, dare i say, almost springlike. for others, my word, you had to wait. eventually in the east some saw some brightness after a thoroughly miserable day. it depended on where you were in relation to the weather front which started life in the south—west and moved ever further to the north—east. into the channel islands, eventually brighter skies into the south—east. it won't be a cold

portugal's rui costa won the overall race.the opposition. obviously, i do not have the paper with me, there is a brilliant bit in the paper, a brilliant photo of him in the back of the times where they ca ptu red in the back of the times where they captured that moment where he is watching the game unfold and you can see him thinking "what on earth?! " that is it. what on earth is going on here. can we see his face there. look at that eyebrow. he is trying to work out... it is reckless rugby and he does not quite know how to respond to it. that is exactly what the players were thinking as well. they did a good job at half—time to get their heads together but he was really not happy. but, italy, they did not break the rules. exactly. you can go change in the tournament, can we? certainly not at this point. if you are just waking up this morning it really is a storyline worthy of an oscar itself. chaos at the academy awards last night in the last few hours after the wrong film was announced as best picture. in a moment we will s