Race is off

 Despite the Mayor of Paris taking a dip in the Seine to prove it was safe. But today's Men Triathlon was postponed due pollution levels in the river. What happens near remains to be seen.

The cliches

 Tonight sees the final of the European Football championship. England play Spain. Her are the kind of headlines to expect.

If England win elect Francis Drake references.

Demands for the referee to be burnt at the stake for any contersial decisions

If England narrowly lose, the phase brave boys will be used.

After the bell

 Today is General Election day in the UK. Voting stops at 10 pm. TV  channels will then broadcast an exit poll that will make a forecast of the forthcoming result. However there are Times when the pool base been wrong. In 1992 it predicted that there would be an hung parliament but instead there was as Conservative majority. We just have to see what tonight brings.

Game on

 The 2024 European Football championship starts tonight. Hosts Germany take on Scotland in the opening matcb.

Not the best of starts

 British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced that the the next UK General Election will be held on the 4th of July. Sunak did the announcement no 10 Downing Street while a mass downpour of rain while The Tony Blair campaign theme Things Can Only Get Better was played over his speech.

Not on your marks

 The Australian state of Victoria has said it will not hold the next Commonwealth Games in 2026 blaming raisins costs. No replacement has been found yet.

Gallent defeat

 This year's World Snooker championship was won by Luuca Bresel. The Belgian is the fourth non British winner of the event Mark Selby was the runner up despite scoring a maximum 147.

We dont want you here

 Wimbledon officials have announced that players from both Russia and Belarus have been banned from the tournament for life. This is due to the ongoing war in Ukraine.q

Boris in the firng line

 Former British Prime Minister Boris has is facing questioning over parties held in No 10 Downing Street during the Co-vid lock down. If he is found guilty he could be thorwn out of Parliament.

The dream is over

 Morocco have seen their world cup final hopes dashed. They were beaten by France in the semi final. France will now play Argertina in the final on Sunday.

Here we go, here we go again

 Tonight England play France in the quarter finals of the World Cup. It is a match loaded with political and historical overtones. If England win expect elements of the English press to run with them.

Not very good hosts

 Qatar hosts of this year's World Cup have crashed out of the group stage without a single point. This makes them in terms of performance one of the worst hosts ever. Elsewhere in the tournament England sent British rivals Wales out with a 3-0 win. The USA best Iran to go through to the second round.

No booze please we are Qatar

 The government of Qatar have decided that no alcohol will be sold in stadia when the World Cup starts on Sunday. This is somewhat embarrassing  given one of the sponsors of the competition is Budwiser.

Unwanted bond

 After 44days Liz Truss is no longer Prime Minister of Great Britain and Ireland. In a really trivial fact she becomes the second British PM following Theresa May not be have a Bond film  released  during their time in charge.

Course correction

 The 1979 film Meator had the world super powers launch wave of nuclear weapons at an oncoming asteroid. 19 years later 2 films came out  with the same idea of the Earth being teatened by an asteroid. In Deep Impact an NASA team tries be drill an nuclear bomb into it but fail. However in Armageddon a team of oil drillers pull off the task.Yesterday NASA have said that one of their probes has changed the course of an asteroid. So that is the way you do it.

Don't move to me

 Yesterday UK Prime Minister Liz Truss made her flagship speech at the Conservative party c She entered into the forum to the song Moving on Up by the band M People. This did not go down well with those connected to the band. Member Mike Pickering was furious while lead singer Heather Snail's  son is Labour party councillor.

Eddie aims for a seat

 Stand up comic Eddie Izzard has announced his intention to stand for Labour in the tnext UK General Election. He is not the first person from a showbiz background to enter. Politics, the most famous example being Ronald Reagan who went from being an actor the President of The United States. We just have to see if Eddie succeeds

The cost of winning

 Today Rafael Nadal should have been playing Nick Kygrios in the semi-finals of the men's singles at Wimbledon. But due to an abdominal strain he picked up in his five set quarter final match against Steve Fritz. At one point during the match Nadal had complained of discomfort with his body but still played on. How Nick has to hardly break a sweat to get into the final..

Boris is gone

 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced his resignation. The last few months Johnson has been tarnished by an number of scandals. He has said he will remain in the post until autumn though some observers believe that this not possible. The race to succeed him starts now.

Nadine's code confusion

 HI Culture Secretary Nadine Dorres was at an event to promote the froth coming RUGBY LEAGUE World Cup. Dorres talked about watching Johnny Wilkinson kicking the winning drop goal of the 2003 competition. However Nadine was actually refering to the 2003 RUGBY UNION World Cup. Just make clear the difference to Nadine, RUGBY LEAGUE is played by 2 teams 13 players while RUGBY UNION is played by 2 teams of 15 players. How you know Nadine