It was the race that nearly ended his career last season, but today chris froome returned to the criterium du dauphine as he looked to secure his place in this years Tour De France. On day one, however, he lost ground on team ineos rival egan bernal while in form rider wout van aert won the stage. Nick parrott was watching. The winner often goes on to claim the Tour De France. Chris froome has done that three times but last year an horrific crash ended his hopes of winning for a record equalling fifth time. His injuries were so bad he was out for months and he is still to recapture his old form. More than three miles from the finish he dropped back from the leaders and ended 86th. He will need to improve if he is to make the Tour De France. Team ineos is putting their energy
into the 2018 winner geraint thomas. Ineos and team sky have dominated cycling but in recent weeks other teams have been leading the way. The stage winner is a rider that could pose a serious threat to ineos in this race and the tour. Lets speak now to cycling journalist michael hutchinson. A lot of pressure on chris froome and this race wont bring back fond memories. Do you feel confident he can make the ineos team . Iam not i am not very sure. He hasnt really demonstrated the form he needs since he came back from the crash to be a Tour De France leader. He is living teams at the end of this year to a Different Team to lead their team to the Tour De France next year and i cannot see him being the ineos first
pick for the tour leadership this year. Watching him today he dropped off the back of the Group Running in towards the finish, he didnt look like a towards the finish, he didnt look likea man towards the finish, he didnt look like a man who is going to the Tour De France to lead. He may go to the Tour De France in a support role, which would be a bit of a surprise but if it was happy doing that i think a lot of the fans would quite like the idea of chris froome doing that for his team mates. Like the idea of chris froome doing that for his teammates. The winner today, is he the man to beat . He is not going to be a Tour De France contender. The dutch team that is very closely modelled itself on both sky and ineos have done over the past few years. Their leader had very good day today. Coming into the tour this year if i was in charge of the ineos team i would be very
concerned. We had the world cycling championships today have been moved and will not be taking place in switzerland. Is that i could head the competition . Yes, it is getting very difficult to get places to run bike races. The governing body are based in switzerland and they were running the site of their own office building. It was a big dealfor them so building. It was a big dealfor them so they will be very disappointed not to be able to do that and it leaves the athletes and teams and a degree of uncertainty because nobody knows where the championships will be or where, maybe they will get pushed back to october, and we have such a compressed schedule there is almost no wriggle room. Suddenly it is clashing with Something Else happening in the autumn. It is a very tight schedule which the uci is trying to work through to get around championships to run at all this
year. Will be interesting to see how this will play out. Could we be on course for another upset at the crucible . Scotlands Anthony Mcgill leads kyren wilson 6 2 after his first World Championship semi final this afternoon. Seema jaswaljoins steve davis and Stephen Hendry to analyse the days drama. The semifinal of the World Snooker championship got under way today and we have been watching kyren wilson against Anthony Mcgill. Nicole getting off to a fantastic start. He punished kyren wilson for every mistake he made. We expected kyren wilson to come out of the blocks like againstjudd trump and it didnt happen. 6 2 is a decent score line for Anthony Mcgill. Not where we expected the scoreline to be. Not at all. Kyren wilson was rightly so there is a favourite. It shows you there is a favourite. It shows you
the importance of getting a good start. Anthony mcgill settle down straightaway and made a lovely break in that set the tone for the first session. Kyren wilson is chasing and is under pressure to have a good second session. When he be thinking about this a lot overnight . The second session is tomorrow so he will have a lot of time. The tables have turned and he is the underdog and we will see how Anthony Mcgill reacts to being the favourite. Protecting a lead enough matches sometimes difficult. You have to be not looking too far ahead or looking over your shoulder. It will be interesting to see how both players react to the second session. Sections two and three can be important. Ronnie osullivan against mark selby could be a final. What are you expecting from this . L mark selby could be a final. What are you expecting from this . A very High Standard of snooker. Two juggernauts of the game competing in the semifinal. Mark selby back to
World Championship form possibly. He always has his big game where he can play tremendous safety but he is backing it up with heavy scoring, a very difficult player to beat. Thank you very much for your thoughts and you very much for your thoughts and you will be able to watch that at 6 1i5pm on bbc two. 6 55pm. Five leading Indoor Sports are coming together to put pressure on the government to provide incentives for the reopening of indoorfacilities. Badminton, netball, table tennis, volleyball and basketball are hoping leisure operators, schools and other venues are able to get participants back into community sport. They two say thirds of facilities will remain unusable into the autumn for the 2. 4 Million People who regularly use them. I think it is really difficult to see how they will reopen. The danger is that some will take months to
come back and some may never recover. I think that is the crisis but i think we are facing. This is not just about a group of but i think we are facing. This is notjust about a group of badminton players. This is millions of people unable to players. This is millions of people u na ble to access players. This is millions of people unable to access their active lifestyle. It is generations of young people who will be lost to sport because they will not be able to move from a School Environment into a Community Environment and we will see the habits people have created for many years decimated. This man behind me is jack leslie he should have been englands first black footballer but he never had the chance to pull on the shirt in 1925 he was dropped because of his race. Theres now a campaign to erect a statue in his honour. As new Research Reveals the lack of representation around statues dedicated to bame sportsmen and women across the uk, Katie Shanahan has been
looking into this. This is the famous statue of arthur wroughton, the first black professional footballer in the world. It stands at the home of the england team in the hope that his story will inspire others from black and ethnic minority backgrounds. The contributions of the black and ethnic minority communities to the game is huge and we see a gross disproportionate number of statues, if you value starches, and i did, because i value what they represent. Are there enough statues . Until you right the wrongs in terms of balancing history, black lives will never truly matted by those in power, it is black history that
matters now. There are only ten black and ethnic minority sports touches out of a total of 240 in the uk. Football has the most with five part tennis, golf and cricket dont have any from diverse backgrounds in britain. The majority of foot ball backgrounds in britain. The majority of football statues tended to be erected around 20 to 30 years after a player has retired. That is important in terms of statues of black footballers because they were very few black footballers in the uk before the early 1980s so those players who played in the 80s are retiring around 1990. We are now getting to the point where it starts becoming into nostalgia. There are notable exceptions. Brendan batson was part of a memorable trio at west brom. He believes to get adequate representation it is up to the public. It is up to the people if
they feel strongly enough about an individual to writing, whether it be for awards. Sometimes the government cannot see what is in front of their faces sometimes because they have other agendas and i would not trust certain people and government to recognise anything. It is important for the people because when you think of professional sport or any form of sport it is supported by the people. Over £100,000 has been raised to build a statue of jack leslie which proves the power of the people will redress the balance when it comes to representation but it ta kes it comes to representation but it takes time to build the statue so how long will it take to force enough change to make sure this is one of many . Formula es six race berlin finale was billed as the most intense in motorsport history, with many expecting it to go down to the wire. Instead, for the first time in the sports history,
it was decided two races early, won by Antonio Felix da costa. Earlier, i spoke to the newly crowned formula e champion who told me the achievement is the result of years of hard work. Every athlete goes through very hard times and failure after failure after failure times and failure after failure afterfailure and times and failure after failure after failure and those are the moments where you need the mental strength, the right people around you to keep on believing and take it back up and i think i am very lucky that i have an amazing family but i had some tough moments. Missing out on f1 was very tough. That is when formula e came into the picture. I was able to join on season one when it was just starting and i am so glad i did because the way it has grown in the last six years has been amazing not only that so much quicker the cars are about all the organisation and the quality of
drivers, the amount of sponsors we have here is amazing and it is an amazing show that has been developing super fast and i am so grateful to be a part of it and now a champion. To do that by this margin ina a champion. To do that by this margin in a sport where no one has really dominated as yet, do you feel that Antonio Felix da costa could become the Lewis Hamilton of formula e . I become the Lewis Hamilton of formula e . I dont think so. The design is to try to make things up as much as they can and really get organised chaos going on on the racetrack with the drivers and amazing racing and all that, so i think it is hard for anyone to dominate. Of course i think in the course of the season the stronger team, stronger driver, will come out on top, but every season will come out on top, but every seasonit will come out on top, but every season it has been down to the wire to the last race. This year because there is not to prepare ourselves well and i think we did a betterjob
than the people around us and we we re than the people around us and we were so than the people around us and we were so dominant that we were able to break the curse a little bit but iam to break the curse a little bit but i am expecting very tough competition for the next two races and next year. By becoming champion that makes you the team to beat. You have a bulls eye on your back. Do you enjoy that pressure . Does that add momentum . For sure. It is a hard thing to go but for the team as well but they have been doing it super well. Winning six years in a row now makes everyone else very hungry. We have a bulls eye on our back and they are coming for us but what is great about these guises once the when they put their foot down even more and that is so motivating and pushes the drivers to give more and more every day. Thanks to Antonio Felix da costa. Thats all from sportsday. We have seen we have seen severe we have seen severe thunderstorms across part of west london, the midlands and the met office have issued an amber weather warning for the storms as they check into west england and wales. Now we can see those storms release bonding for the latter part of the afternoon. First across west london, look at the clouds here, then across the midlands, and some big storms too for wales. And its along this zone where were likely to see some nasty conditions. Another night of hearing heat in cardiff and london. A largely dry picture across the uk. Keeping most of the showers at bay. Showers
developing, some of them becoming heavy infantry with the risk of torrential rain and another hot and humid day. This is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. Three people, including the driver, die in a Train Derailment near stonehaven in aberdeenshire. Six people were injured. Our thoughts are very much with those whove lost their lives, theirfamilies, and of course, those whove been injured in the derailment. On the ticket, joe biden will appear shortly alongside his newly chosen running mate, kamala harris, to launch their bid for the white house. The suffering of children in beirut after last weeks explosion we have a special report on their trauma