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Premiership title in 2006 to take on a roll of a nonexecutive director. i was brought in a direct —— diverse area and i look at my own journey and i want to inspire everybody to pick up a rugby ball and get involved with this point whether thats coming to schools like we are today with the girls programme or going into deprived areas. i know the boundaries. i know some of the barriers and for some of these young people getting into rugby so funny i would like to think im an ideal choice to h...

Beautiful sport is fading away. there are a lot of points that make this sport so beautiful and everyone should feel safe, everyone should feel like they are just for their performance and not their body. kyren wilson has clinched the first place in the semi—finals of the world snooker championship. wilson was the runner—up last year and knocked out former champion neil robertson. they were 8—all overnight, but wilson won the first five frames of the day to end the australians hopes of ano...

A big loss for george i feel for him and i wish them a real speedy recovery and if he can get back to full fitness and back and playing international rugby. world number onejudd trump is out of the world snooker championship after losing his quarter—final match up against shaun murphy. trump who won this tournament in 2019 had a chance to take the match to a deciding frame before missing this red. former champion murphy edged the closely contested match 13 frames to ii and will play last years...

To suggest, but maybe we need to think about sex specific differences in engagement with the game. so maybe if girls are getting concussed more regularly from heading a ball, orfrom, you know, in collision with a ball we should think about, should adolescent females actually be heading the ball at all? should we even be thinking about differences in heading approach in young athletes? now for some exciting news from wimbledon. organisers are hoping that up to 10,000 fans will be able to enjoy th...

Mark selby raced through his quarterfinal against fellow 3 time champion mark williams with a session to spare, he was 6—2 up overnight and went through 13—3. selby says he hopes that is a good omen, he beat maco fu13—3 in the 2017 quarters and went on to win the title. selby will face stuart bingham in what promises to be another great crucible match up. bingham pulled through in an epic quarterfinal against anthony mcgill, bingham won by xxx you may have seen over the last week, the germ...

Have we seen the shot of the tournament at the world snooker championship? this is stuart bingham in his quarterfinal against anthony mcgill. wonder what hes aiming at? the red right beneath him. only on second viewing do you really see how welljudged he made all the angles. that helped him stay in the match, where he trails mcgill 9—7. theyll play to a finish today, with 13 the target for victory. and finally, weve seen many occasions where a dog or a cat has invaded a football pitch. try an ...

Still close enough to the low to escape. through the day, there will be a lot of sunshine across the uk, but it will feel chilly and particularly on the north sea coast. just light breezes in contrast to wednesday, but with lighter breezes, where we do see some showers developing and we are seeing some that will be quite slow—moving. locally some heavy downpours but disappointing temperatures with ten to 12 as highs. things look very similar for friday and indeed it looks like we will hold on ...

That performance and not their body. the quarterfinals of the world snooker championship are back under way this morning at the crucible in sheffield. two former world champions are battling it out. mark selby started the day 6—2 ahead of mark williams and he has stormed further ahead, taking the first three frames of the session. thats live on the bbc sport website. it is the first to 13 frames that will progress there. anotherformer world champion neil robertson is in a very tricky match wit...

Theyll get rid of the rest day on middle sunday, instead having 1a consecutive days of play. we all missed it enormously last year, such a huge part of the british summer of sport. great to hear that it will be on and that there will be fans. you know what jamie and andy have been saying to me about playing in front of no crowd is how you realise how much the crowds influence the intensity of the match, when youre up and down, its with you when you get close to the finish line, and you really mi...

The build up starts at seven oclock with mark chapman. kick off is at eight oclock. kyren wilson was the first player through to the semi—finals of the world snooker championship. wilson was the runner—up last year and knocked out former champion neil robertson. they were 8—8 overnight but wilson won the first five frames of the day to end the australians hopes of another title. and mark selby is also in the final four. he started the day 6—2 ahead of anotherformer world champion mark wi...