hello and welcome to sportsday i m sarah mulkerrins. coming upfor coming up for you this evening. we will start in paris. it s cruise control for iga swiatek and coco gauff, as they both make the women s final of the french open with ease. what a start to england s new chapter in cricket. great bowling in the morning, but this evening, familiar trouble with the bat. also coming up in the programme: inspired byjake daniels. two scottish referees have have become the first to come out publicly as gay. we get the reaction from grassroots football in scotland. i think we will probably look back at this moment and sort of say they were the people who helped us create something big. welcome along to sportsday. lots to come. we are going to talk cricket in a moment, but we are going to begin in paris. four became two. iga swiatek continued her dominant run with a straight sets victory over daria kasatkina. she will face coco gauff. here is russell fuller. she is on this dominant r
and a 17 year old striker becomes the first professional footballer in the men s game in england, for three decades, to come out as gay. and a 17 year old striker becomes the first professional we start with the news that more than 200 wounded soldiers from the azovstal steelworks on the edge of the city of mariupol have been evacuated. pictures suggest that they have been bussed out and have now reached novoazovsk, which is a russian controlled town in eastern ukraine. at least 50 of them are said to have been taken to local hospitals. the forces had been withstanding a russian offensive for almost three months, gaining almost legendary status among many ukrainians. it s not clear at this stage if they will be released into ukrainian government hands. translation: we hope - to save the lives of our boys. among them are the heavily wounded. they are being treated. i want to underline ukraine needs its ukrainian heroes alive. this is our principle. i think these words can be
and blackpool s jake daniels becomes the first professional footballer in the uk men s game for three decades to come out as gay. and coming up in the sport on the bbc news channel. could arsenal get the win they needed against newcastle to move back into the champions league places? good evening. britain s most senior military officer has asserted that ukraine is winning the war against russia and has now secured its survival as an independent state. the chief of the defence staff, admiral sir tony radakin, was speaking as the ukrainian army reported making progress in the north. ukrainian forces have been retaking territory around the country s second biggest city, kharkiv, the target of heavy bombardment since the invasion began in february. russian forces are now focusing on the donbas region further south, but they are continuing to meet fierce resistance. we start tonight with a special report from near the eastern city of izyum, known as the gateway to the donbas. our
dan roan reports. he may be at the very start of his career byjake daniels is already a footballing trailblazer. the 17 year old only made his first team debut for blackpool earlier this month. today, he became the first professional in the british men s game for more than 30 years to come out publicly as gay. it s been such a long time of lying, and i vejust processed and processed every day of how i want to do it, when i want to do it. the day i told my mum and my sister, the day after i scored four, so itjust shows how much of a weight off the shoulders it was, a massive relief, and lying all the time, it has been a struggle, but i feel i am ready to be myself, be free and be confident with it all. justin fashanu was the last active male professional in the british game to come out publicly in 1990, suffering years of homophobic abuse. he took his own life in 1998. with more of a focus on in cclloosseerr include with more of a focus
callum wheeler was captured on camera footage near the scene the day after the murder. he ll be sentenced at a later date. jake daniels, the blackpool forward, has become the first professional footballer in the men s game in the uk for more than 30 years to reveal that he s gay. he said the time was right to come out, and explained that hiding his identity had caused stress and mental health problems. daniels, who s 17, said his team mates had been supportive and he hoped to become a role model for others. our sports editor dan roan reports. he may be at the very start of his career by jake he may be at the very start of his career byjake daniels is he may be at the very start of his career by jake daniels is already career byjake daniels is already a footballing trailblazer. the 17 year old only made his first team debut for blackpool earlier this month. today he became the first professional in the british men s game for more than 30 years to come out publicly as gay. it’s game fo