ryoyu kobayashi edged out of the competition to make it 2-2 with 266.6 points.he victory gives him the chance of becoming the first japanese athlete since 1998 to win the four hills tournament. russia faces the prospect of new sporting sanctions after it missed a deadline for handing over data from its anti-doping lab. the world anti-doping agency said t that it wasas bitterly disappointed russia missed a deadline on the 31st of dececember, which was set to pae the way for russia's return to international athletics. it was barred from the 2016 olympics and 2018 winter olympics after a report uncovered a state-sponsored doping program. as the clock moves around the time zones and the last parts of the world ring in 2019, the new year is officially underway. from east to west, revelers have been celebrating with music, dancing, and some dazzling fireworks displays. let's take a look now at some of the highlights. reporter: for millions of people around the glolobe, the last moments of 2018 were spent holding their breath. then as the clock struck midnight, the sho

ski jumper ryoyu kobayashi became the first japanese man in 21 years to win the two opening legs of worldermany on tuesday. the new year's day event in garmish—partenkirchen is a traditional feature on the world cup calendar, and kobayashi followed up his win in 0berstdorf on sunday with another victory. he beat the local favourite markus eisenbichler by 1.9 points across their two jumps. there are two further events in austria on friday and sunday, where kobayashi will hope to become the first japanese winner of the four hills title since 1998. now, another new year tradition is ice hockey‘s winter classic — the nhl‘s annual outdoor game — and this year it was won by boston bruins, who beat chicago in a game that was played in indiana. twice the blackhawks led, with goals from brendan perlini, and this from dominik kahun. but twice, they were pegged back, with this powerplay goal from patrice bergeron tying the game at 2—2, with just over a minute to play in the second period. now, the bruins added two more in the final period, with brad marchand scoring into an empty net to seal a 11—2

ryoyu kobayashi became only the third man in history to win the grand slam at ski jumping's four hillsfshofen on sunday. his second jump took him from fourth place into the lead, and that is where he stayed. the runaway leader of the world cup standings had previously won the events in 0berstdorf, garmisch—partenkirchen and innsbruck, and joins sven hannewald and kamil stoch in completing the grand slam. some effort, indeed. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. but from me, tulsen tollett, and the rest of the sport today team, till next time, goodbye. hello there. it's fair to say the weather's been very dull over the past few days. but all that is about to change. we've got more energy coming in from the atlantic, a deep area of low pressure rushing to the north of scotland, that's beginning to pick up the winds for northern areas. still to the south, high pressure, a few breaks in the cloud means a chillier start here and maybe some fleeting sunshine. rain is moving southwards across scotland, northern ireland, into north—west england and north wales. behind it, sun