Good afternoon. The Cyclist Laura Kenny has become britains most decorated female olympic athlete, after she and Team Mate Katie archibald won the Womens Madison Event in the velodrome. The pair dominated the 120 lap race, winning 10 of the 12 sprints. It means kenny has won gold in three consecutive Olympic Games, and archibald in two. Elsewhere after their gold in rio, britains Hockey Women have taken bronze in tokyo, with a narrow victory over india. And Team Gb s 18th Gold Medal of the games came from Kate French in the womens moden pentathlon. And in the last few minutes, Team Gb s Laura Muir has won silver in the 1500m final. Sport and for a full Round Up, from the bbc sport centre. Two more golds on Day 1a of tokyo 2020 have taken Team Gb up to fourth in the overall medals table. The first of the two was a historic one for Laura Kenny. She has become the most decorated female olympian in british history. She and Katie Archibald were crowned the inaugral Womens Madison champions
Hockey earlier today, the temperature on the thermometer may have read 31 degrees, but factor in the humidity and it felt more like 43 degrees, so that is really quite incredible. And although the temperatures are falling away, only slowly, so the athletics about to get under way, the temperatures will still be sitting into the high 20s, still be sitting into the high 20s, still with that humidity as well. Back to reality, however, lets get that focus closer to home. I was settled Summer Sunshine has abandoned us come up with low pressure still dominating generally across the country. The heaviest rain so far today has been through eastern scotland, drifting steadily westwards and these bands of showers moving out of Northern Ireland, North West England and North Wales, some of these are heavy and thundery for the remainder of the afternoon. Further south, fewer showers around and the best of the breaks with the best of the sunshine, but it is a diSappointing story. Top temperatures of
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Ladies, welcome to you both. Lets go first to you, kathy, close to me in New York, what more are we learning from the cdc data on the Breakthrough Cases . Reporter good afternoon to you. We are learning the extent of how dangerous the Delta Variant really is and how contagious it is, even among the fully vaccinated. Cdc officials are saying The War has essentially changed. You mentioned earlier that there was an outbreak just a couple weeks ago in provincetown, massachusetts, and among the infected threequarters were actually fully vaccinated, and based on further testing most of them had the Delta Variant. Also at this current rate, according to the cdc documents, at this current rate were seeing 35,000 Breakthrough Cases, but we do want to let folks know Health Officials are saying that vaccines are still effective, despite these new alarming numbers, and this is more reason for folks to get vaccinated, because we know now how contagious the Delta Variant is. Its as contagious as muc