Including fourteen Police Officers are killed in anti government protests. Now on bbc news, its sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday this Sunday Night with Me Chetan Pathak with the latest from the olympics and elsewhere. Coming up on the programme. Oh, so close but having to settle for silver Britains Tommy Fleetwood just misses out on being olympic champion. And its the same story for Amber Rutter in the shooting after a dramatic and controversial ending to the Womens Skeet. And can anyone stop american Superstar Noah lyles in tonights 100m final . British rising Start Louie Hinchcliffe beat him in the heats and is Dreaming Big. Also coming up on sportsday before seven. Golden moment pure emotion from novak djokovic. After winning every other major title he is finally an olympic champion. So many emotions. I want to cry, laugh, jump, scream, all at once, it is the best feeling i have ever had. And away from the games celtic make a winning start to the Scottish Premiership season
The Anti Immigration Hungarian prime Minister Victor Orban meets Pope Francis in budapest. Britains18 year old Emma Raducanu has won the Us Open, in one of the most dramatic victories in modern tennis. She beat19 year old Leylah Fernandez of canada in two sets, 6 4 6 3. Raducanu only made it into the tournament as a qualifier, but she won the title Without dropping a single set. Shes the first british woman to win a grand Slam Singles Title in 44 years. Heres the bbc s sports correspondentjoe wilson. The borough of queens on a sunny day, and the extraordinary progress of one young woman. Shes been absolutely amazing this whole tournament. She has a lot of energy. Shes so composed and ruthless. Shes going to smash it. You know who theyre talking about. Well, there were two teenagers in the Us Open final, canadian Leylah Fernandez at the top of the screen. As early as the second game, we saw intense rallies and we saw Emma Raducanu prevailing here. Both players settled immediately to dis
Ahead of van art. Quick Round Up now of some of the days other sports stories. Five time paralympic Gold Medallist Ellie simmonds has confirmed her retirement. The 26 year old said last week that she expected the tokyo games to be her fourth and final paralympics, and shes has now called time on her swimming career. Britains Elvin Evans is second behind his Toyota Teammate Sebastien ogier after the Opening Stage of Acropolis Rally in greece. Hes trailing the frenchman by 38 points in the standings with three rallies left this season. Japan have withdrawn as hosts of december s club World Cup. Fifa has confirmed that the Countrys Football Association is no longer in a position to host the tournament because of covid concerns. The england lionesses have their first two World Cup qualifiers later this month. North macedonia at home then a trip to luxembourg. Sarina wiegman is now in position. The former Netherlands Boss is the permanent successor to phil neville, and shes been speaking to
Time for sportsday. Hello, welcome to sportsday im austin halewood. Coming up this Evening Liverpool and Chelsea Book their place in the Champions League, but Leicester City miss out, on the final day of the Premier League season. A five starfinish champions Manchester City finish the season in style. And its Max Power in monaco. Verstappen wins, to lead the Formula One Championship for the first time. Good evening, welcome to the programme. Well, theres only once place to start tonight, because within the last half an hour the full time whistle has blown on the Premier League season. All 20 teams were in action and all eyes were on chelsea, Leicester City and liverpool as they battled it out for the final two Champions League spots. And after defeat at home to tottenham, its leicester that miss out. Well our reporter Adam Wild joins me in the studio. Adam, a busy day, lots to keep across. Leicester wont be in the Champions League next season how did it all play out . Head has been abs
and making sure that we extend those and keep doing the good things for longer. so i think we are in a really good place at the minute, and hopefully we can wrap up the odi part of the tour in two days time. now, the england men s two day test defeat in india. after that, coach chris silverwood says they havn t officially complained to the icc about the pitch. haven t officially complained. england were beaten on a surface in ahmedabad which some have suggested wasn t fit for test cricket. england accept they were outplayed but silverwood says he ll be discussing the challenging conditions with his captain, joe root. joe andi joe and i will have conversations, see where we go, because it certainly. we have to accept we have to get better on these pages, we ve got to accept that there are places we could have improved. look at the first innings, we had the opportunity to bat more runs. next time i would hope we would pounce on the opportunity and make best use of the oppor