non brazilians who have been in the uk in the last 14 days, have to go through quarantine period. it seems argentina had the backing of south america s uefa, the continental football authority, to go ahead with this game using these players, but brazil s health authority clearly did not agree. a real mess, that one. that story will run and run. valterri bottas is going to leave mercedes at the end of the year and move to alfa romeo, which should pave the way for george russell to become lewis hamilton s new partner from 2022. after five seasons at mercedes alongside hamilton, bottas will now replace raking in at alfa romeo. he is retiring at the end of the year. bottas has won nine races since the join mercedes back in 2017. paralympics gb are reflecting on a brilliant games injapan, finishing second in the medal table once again, with 124 medals, 41 of them gold, two of them one by swimmer
maisie sommers newton. she told my colleague sally nugent, what it was like racing alongside her hero. when i first started racing against ellie simmonds, especially when she came back from rio, i think it was really surrealfor me, came back from rio, i think it was really surreal for me, because she is or has been such an idol for me, and someone i have a was looked up to. so to race against her was pretty strange! but i have definitely got used to it over the past few years. she is such an inspiration, such a good friend in such a lovely person. because we have done the same races when we were out there, so to have her in the room, and it wasjust having that person who has the knowledge and experience to know that i can trust her and rely on her, and it is going to be a great race, and it will be really fun. finally, just to mark your card for some exciting golf coming up. europe need just five points from today s five singles matches in ohio to retain the solheim cup. they leave the
broke her own record by two full seconds, so another gold for great britain. it comes afterjaco van gass won gold in the mens c3 3000metres individual pursuit at the velodrome, beating his team mate finlay graham to give britain a one two in the final. it was expected after he set a stunning new world record in qualifying, taking nine seconds off the record. the 35 year old is a former soldier who lost his lower left arm, and suffered other severe injuries in afghanistan in 2009. it s his first paralympics, and gold in his first event. and in the last few minutes the gb trio of maisie summers newton, grace harvey and defending champion ellie simmonds have all competed in the sm6 200m individual medley final. it was maisie sommers newton who has taken goals with a world record time as well. many congratulations to