Says the flooding there is the worst Natural Disaster in the countrys history. Now on bbc news sportsday with paul scott. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im paul scott At The Bbc Sport centre, heres what weve got for you. History beckons englands netballers reach the World Cup Final for the very first time. The bhoys are back celtic see off ross county, as they make a winning start to the defence of their Scottish Premiership title. And comfortable wins for spain and japan, who are the first teams through to the Quarter Finals of the womens world cup. Also coming up on sportsday more success for Great Britain, as Charlie Hatton becomes Mountain Bike downhill World Champion. And a remarkable comeback from scotland, as they beat france in their world cup warm up. We begin with bit of history for englands netballers. Theyre through to a World Cup Final for the very first time, after a nerve shredding victory over new zealand in cape town. There was nothing separating the two sides heading
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sarah. what is the reaction there, to the news that effectively this athlete has gone into exile? well, ever since krystina athlete has gone into exile? -ii ever since krystina timanovskaya made those very public criticisms of the sporting authority, there has been a smear campaign on state media, they have been presenting her as arrogant, as letting down here team mates by refusing to run in a race she says she wasn t prepared for. this scandal has become political and one state media presenter said the only thing that krystina timanovskaya won in the olympics was a visa to poland. no medals just olympics was a visa to poland. no medalsjust a olympics was a visa to poland. no medals just a visa. that is one of the reasons why she didn t feel safe to return here to minsk and today we are seeing another developing story, which is a sign of how little tolerance there, intolerance for dissent, one of the faces of the opposition protest that we saw here
in the light heavyweight boxing, but the brit was disappointed not to take gold after losing in the final. good afternoon. team gb are racking up the medals in tokyo at the olympics, and the success is across a wide range of sports. history was made at the skate park with sky brown, who s just 13, taking britain s first ever skateboarding medal, and securing her place as the country s youngest ever olympic medallist. and there was a gold in sailing for hannah mills and eilidh mcintyre, winning the 4 70 class, making mills the most successful female olympic sailor of all time, after a gold in rio,