Automatically qualify, while the third and fourth placed nations will go into the play . Offs. The 12 best ranked teams in league b will face eachother for a place in the final play off round. Scotland are in a group with serbia, slovakia and israel; Northern Ireland were drawn with portugal, Bosnia And Herzegovina and malta; while wales will play croatia, ukrane and kosovo. Qualifying begins in april. Former world number one simona halep has had herfour year ban for doping reduced to nine months by the court of arbitration for sport. The two time grand slam winner tested positive for an anti anaemia drug after the us open in 2022. Cas have since ruled halep did not take it intentionally. Having feared her career was over,s the 32 old can now return to tennis immediately. And thats all the sport for now. Heres the eastern time and gmt time, east coast west coast. Weve got a Night Of Special Coverage Tonight on the bbc, Super Tuesday will be coming from washington, dc, looked across to
let s take a quick look at some of the other sports news stories making the headlines. plate 179 games for his hometown team. elvin evans is fifth after the opening day of rally kenya in nairobi. the briton is 3.3 seconds behind leader 0tt tanak. evans was fourth last time out in italy and will be hoping to at least match the second place he achieved in kenya last year. the rally ends on sunday. the international olympic committee has voted to expel the international boxing association from the olympic movement. it s the first time the ioc has kicked out a governing body in its 129 year history. it s after a number of allegations of rigged decisions at the rio 2016 olympics.