For the games. Its always important. We are here an elite sport, winning medals is what we are about, but we are part of an incredible No One movement, the paralympic movement, which on and off The Field of play once disabled people to be recognised wholly in society, and those performances on The Field of play can only help us in that cause. To the Us Open where Britain Harriet Dart will begin her second Round Match against Marta Kostyuk in the next hour or so, novak Djokovic And Coco gauff will also be on court later but no such luck for former Champion Emma Raducanu who lost her first round to sofia kenin despite winning the second set. Raducanu was knocked out by the 2020 Australian Open champion. Kenin plays fellow american and sixth seed Jessica Pegula tomorrow. England and Sri Lanka are making their final preparations ahead of the second test at lords tomorrow. England beat The Visitors by five wickets in the opener at Old Trafford last week, chasing down a fourth Innings Target
And also for Northern Ireland as we head into friday morning. Some mist and fog patches across southern parts of england and wales, they could be slow to clear tomorrow. We have still got that mix of rain around the coast and at low levels but heavy snow across central parts of scotland, so some disruption is likely. Heavy rain showers for parts of north east england and for Northern Ireland. But into the weekend thats when things will turn colder for all of us and there is further snow in places as well. So heading through the course of friday night into saturday, low pressure starts to drift away towards the south. We still got more snow across the Higher Ground of scotland, some of that snow on saturday falling to lower levels and it will start to snow across parts of Northern England as well. To the south of that mainly rain showers with the driest weather for parts of Northern Ireland and into wales on saturday but those temperature starting to come down, around 2 8 degrees but it
Greg it is trends wednesday. Less about trends than the last of confidence. We are seeing more example of people using the banner of trends to do bad things. Who can forget Kayla Lemieux . The two biggest glue guns you have ever seen. [laughter] i was so preoccupied with her story i forgot i only fish. [laughter] all right. Anyway, the teacher demanded that the school complied with her identity choices. So standards were dropped. Meanwhile, in prisons, violent male felons would identify as women to get into womens jails. Basic rules about rapists being that among women were somehow ignored. In sports, men were saying they were women and the doors swung open like a pair of untucked balls. [laughter] thank you. And now we have a new example, trans power lifter just set a canadian Womens National record at the canadian powerlifting 2023 Western Canadian championship in manitoba. Yeah, Watch Anne Porter the man in manitoba. Put the man in manitoba. [cheers and applause] greg wow. She is de