By Terri Schlichenmeyer The Bookworm Sez It was all about the balance. You didn't think of it that way, though. All you were interested in was riding your bike with the big kids, pedaling without training wheels, and an adult holding you up. You got a lot of skinned knees, but you could see the
Breakaway to win stage six of the tour de france femmes. the dane held off the peleton to give her movistar team their second win at this year s tour. belgian lotte kopecky finished third and leads the race byjust under a minute ahead of tomorrow s crucial climb up the col du tourmalet. plenty more at bbc.com /sport but that s the latest from the bbc sport centre. if you are a football fan and you been following the european transfers like me you ll know only two way there s a new major new buyer in the market. it is saudi arabia, they are the new china, spending billions attracting some of europe s biggest talent to the saudi pro league. and as you look at that list of players who have taken the money, you will notice a pattern, most of them have been transferred on a fee, most are in their 30s looking for a last big move, most of them, if not all, have played champions league football. the saudi spending is part of wider national strategy. the crown prince aims to establish his count
After winning gold in tokyo two years ago great britain s men s 4 by 200m freestyle relay team are now world champions too. the quartet of duncan scott, matt richards, james guy and tom deanjust edged out the united states byjust under a second to secure gb s second gold of the world aquatics championships injapan. and emma norsgaard produced a stunning effort from the breakaway to win stage 6 of the tour de france femmes. the dane held off the peleton to give her movistar team their second win at this year s tour. belgian lotte kopecky finished third and leads the race byjust under a minute ahead of tomorrow s crucial climb up the col du tourmalet. and that s all the sport for now. hello. friday was a pleasant enough day for most of us. just a few showers here and there. but how about the weekend? it is looking a little
Still in steps we may forward after 2012 are still in place, they re not, we have taken still in place, they re not, we have taken massive steps backward and we need to taken massive steps backward and we need to push more to get it back to where it need to push more to get it back to where it needs to be. tonight is not just tonight is notjust about caught craft and undead gunn, olivia breen will be going a long jump, considering action on the track and might rememberfrom the considering action on the track and might remember from the commonwealth games in birmingham last year where she won gold. tonight is a long jump, she won gold. tonight is a long jump, her main event she is carrying a bit of an ankle injury right now but she says she still believes she can meet the podium, so it looks like it could be great britain s women time to shine tonight. to cycling now. yon izagirry was the man to break away from the peleton to take stage 12 of the tour de france it s been nearly s
But max verstappen was just behind and just pipped the best bit into the top of the grid but to make the front row meant so much to mclaren. tomorrow, norris starts second. there s more heartbreak for mark cavendish. yesterday he was pipped to the line at the tour de france, denied the chance to break the all time tour stage win record. today, his tour is over. cavendish broke his collarbone after a crash on stage 8, in what he said would be his final appearance in the famous race. drew savage reports. nobody would have wanted it to end like this. cavendish is down and is on the floor. 16 years after making his debut at the world s biggest bike race, the mark cavendish era came to an unexpected and abrupt and 50 miles from the finish line of stage eight. it was the sort of innocuous incident that happens countless times at the tour. a touch of wheels at the front rippled back to the peleton and cavendish was down.