getting the right one of these is so important for female athletes. hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. and we re underway at the women s world cup on an emotional and landmark day in so many respects. both co hosts new zealand and australia, opening their campaigns with a win. australia got the better of debutants ireland in sydney and without their captain sam kerr. she ll miss most of the group stage. and a famous first ever victory in the tournament for new zealand, with records set at eden park. their 1 0 win over norway meaning so much to the team following tragedy earlier in auckland with that deadly shooting. a day for the history books then for the football ferns as nick parrot reports. new zealand waited three years for
in the studio and software and the rest of the day sport. thanksjohn. well after stunning the cycling world with two stage wins so far, on his comeback to the tour de france, the longest stage today was always going to be struggle for sprinter mark cavendish. mathieu van der poel still leads the way, with the yellowjersey as nick parrot reports. there are many races within the tour de france. mark cavendish is to win the sprinters green jersey. on the longer stage for 21 years come he wrote at the front until he secured vital points at the intermediate spring. job done come hejust had to make it to be finished. while he slipped back, i met a moorish surge forward. the slovenian likes to write hard for a long, and the 151i write hard for a long, and the 154 miles were to his liking. it meant so much to him to win this stage, to add to his victories in the other two grand tours. his countrymen were suffering though. last year s runner up one of the favourites, but could not keep up, sl