the bdo world championship also becoming one of the sport s most popular players and a celebrity away from darts. his great mate and rival, bobby george was among those paying tribute, saying, he was a gentle giant and loved by all. our condolences go out to his wifejenny family and friends. rip andy fordham the viking. we are just one week away from the start of the tokyo olympic games, and one of the sports making its debut this time is climbing. one of the favourites for a medal will be shauna coxsey, great britain s most successful will be shauna coxsey, she s won world cups and british titles, but now has this one chance at an olympic medal, before she moves away from indoor climbing. ive been to train with her in sheffield. it s the moment she s been reaching for since she first climbed a wall aged four. shauna coxsey, multiple world cup medal winner,
at royal st george s in kent. after a day s rest, the tour de france resumes later today. there will be three tough mountain stages in the pyrenees for mark cavendish to get through if he s to get the chance to break the record for stage wins at the race. every opportunity there is for a sprint, i d like to win, and every opportunity there is for a stage win elsewhere. this is still probably the hardest tour de france i ve ever done. don t know whether i m looking forward to the next three days, but, hopefully, we should be ok. he s won seven world titles and is the most successful driver formula one has ever seen. now lewis hamilton has a new mission to make the sport more diverse.he wants to get more young black people to take up science and engineering subjects. it s a very nerve racking moment but challenging as well because it is the beginning of a journey part pushing for change in my industry.
and i think that president obama s language yesterday may give you the preview or today will give you the language you might hear raising it to a higher level and talking about fundamental american valus and not only personally criticizing the president, but affirming the values that he saw in contradictions. it started out well. they were kornlguacordial. the president said we ll do whatever it takes to help with the transition. but a lot of policy disagreement coming. jackie, even on the policy that perhaps trump and those who support him hate the most, obama care. trump came out of that meeting and seemed oepen to keeping some facets of obama care. president obama campaigned hard and personally in the very important swing states and lost. the voters wanted to make america great, again. i asked this of trump surrogates and supporters often to what end. and they say he s a winner. he likes to win, but he s won. so this confounds a lot of
we will see the president-elect on this thank you tour. he s going from here to iowa and then michigan. interesting to note, katy, these are all states he s won. critics say maybe given the closeness of the election, the fact he lost the popular election, it might be a good idea to go to a state he lost and try to win over those other folks. here in north carolina he won the primary and general. we ll see if he adds any of those states to his schedule. chris jansing in fayetteville, north carolina, thank you so much. still to come, the veep is at it again, tossing another one-liner our way en route to a meeting with house democrats on the hill. two days, two hints of a white house run in 2020. but what s the reality here? kelly o donnell is working her sources to find out. and she will join us next.