Almost impossible to land. The defending champion Jamie Anderson played it as safe as she could and won with a score that would have only been good enough for bronze in sochi. I tried to kind of weight and take a moment before i dropped in and it seemed like the flags werent moving too much but as soon as i dropped in i was like, oh, no, too much but as soon as i dropped in iwas like, oh, no, there too much but as soon as i dropped in i was like, oh, no, there is some wind. When we all signed up for snowboarding, it wasnt always bluebird perfect sunny days like we get in california so my attitude with contests and even with training oi with contests and even with training or shredding on any given day is like, learning to adapt with the weather and just doing your best in any given conditions. The womens giant slalom was postponed and will now take place on thursday. None of the snowboarders suffered major injury, but the International Olympic committee and International Ski federation
That ruled Roger Federer out of roland garros. This time it is a desire to keep on playing which is behind the decision. Now 35, he says he wants to continue competing with the worlds best for many years to come. Playing on clay, in his words, probably isnt the best physical preparation for the remainder of the season. Preparation for the remainder of the season. In a statement, he goes on to say. The start of the year was something to behold. Magical, it was all stopped after taking six months out of the game, federate came back in some style. Few could have predicted, in winning the australian open, his 18th grand slam. And it didnt end there. In march he won at indian wells, one of the most prestigious events outside the slams. Just two weeks later he won the miami third time. His decision to pull out of paris will be a big blow to the tournament organisers. Not only is better one of the greatest players in history, he is also one of the most popular. But focusing on his best surfac
Cancelling the last Administration Com Pletely Cancelling the last administration completely one sided deal with cuba. And hes one of the political giants of modern european history. Germanys longest serving chancellor, helmut kohl, dies at the age of 87. Could ronaldo be getting rid of real . The bbc learns hes so upset at being accused of tax fraud, he wants to leave madrid. Hello and welcome to world news today. Police say that at least 30 people are now confirmed to have died in the fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower in west london. The bbc understands that the total number of people who are dead but the bbc understands that many more people are missing. There is growing anger at the way the authorities have dealt with the aftermath of the fire earlier around 500 protestors stormed kensington town hall. Some protestors then moved to the centre of london, and staged a sit in at oxford circus, in the heart of londons west end, and just a few hundred metres from this building. With the
For sportsday and the latest from wimbledon but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. The North Korean Communist Regime celebrates after it claims to have successfully launched a long range ballistic missile. Well bring you the political fall out worldwide in half an hour in one hundred days plus. After its claimed that a personalised Cancer Treatment could be available to patients in five years, well be speaking to an expert from Cancer Research uk at 7. 45. And our guests tonight in the papers at 10. 40 are laura perrins, whos co editor of the website, the conservative woman and torcuil crichton, Westminster Editor of the daily record. Thats all ahead on bbc news. Now its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to wimbledon sportsday, im katherine downes. Injury crisis on Centre Court Fans miss out on a full Afternoons Entertainment With Djokovic And Federer as their opponents pull out. The world number one whos Under The Radar Angelique Kerber started her bi
And said he had been a creep. Migrant crisis, yesterday, if you we re migrant crisis, yesterday, if you were watching, we were talking about italy saying it needed more help from other European Countries in dealing with the thousands arriving, today, austria has announced it is prepared to send its army to its border with italy to stop migrants from coming in. We are told 750 troops are on stand by. The italians are not impressed, you will not be surprised to hear. The austrian ambassador ambassador in italy has been summoned. I have been speaking with the europe editor of the Bbc World Service about whether they summon World Service about whether they summon him or not, what the italians can actually do about this. They do not have leveraged but there is a bit of Sabre Rattling going on. They have moved the soldiers onto stand by, they have put armoured vehicles on stand by, there is no suggestion yet that they will close the border. They have been talking between themselves, the two