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Britain celebrates its first ever winner of the Tour de France. We'll | :00:27. | :00:31. | |
be looking at where it all started and ask how his victory compares | :00:31. | :00:39. | |
with other great sporting achievements. | :00:39. | :00:44. | |
Also tonight: Video emerges of the Colorado suspect filmed six years | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
before the shooting spree which left 12 people dead. | :00:51. | :01:01. | |
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Ernie Els wins the Open and it was Good evening. Bradley Wiggins has | :01:16. | :01:18. | |
made sporting history by becoming the first British cyclist to win | :01:18. | :01:23. | |
the Tour de France. The result was confirmed in the final sprint race | :01:23. | :01:26. | |
along the Champs-Elysees this afternoon, which was watched by | :01:26. | :01:32. | |
thousands of spectators. Our sports correspondent Tim Franks reports | :01:32. | :01:39. | |
from Paris, on an extraordinary day for British sport. | :01:39. | :01:45. | |
The start of the world's longest victory lap. There was still 80 | :01:45. | :01:49. | |
miles for Bradley Wiggins to ride today on his freshly sprayed yellow | :01:49. | :01:53. | |
bike but the tradition on the tour is for the leader on the final day | :01:53. | :01:59. | |
to remain unchallenged. It's a day, this being France for bon amie and | :01:59. | :02:04. | |
strange customs involving livestock. And while today's course may have | :02:04. | :02:08. | |
been flat, the the sense of expectation was big new. After | :02:08. | :02:12. | |
three weeks, 2000 miles, 22 mountain passes, the end was in | :02:12. | :02:16. | |
sight and the prospect of a unique achievement for Britain. | :02:16. | :02:22. | |
There are moments in sport, perhaps just a few each century, when a | :02:22. | :02:26. | |
nation asks where were you when? This is one of them, certainly for | :02:26. | :02:29. | |
these fans. Bradley Wiggins is doing what no Briton has done | :02:29. | :02:35. | |
before. First, though, the sight of a Briton doing what's become | :02:35. | :02:39. | |
astonishingly familiar. Mark Cavendish may be the best road | :02:39. | :02:44. | |
sprinter the world has seen. With his team-mate leading the peloton | :02:44. | :02:47. | |
he swung out for his fourth consecutive win of the most | :02:47. | :02:52. | |
glamorous tour stage of them all. Britain, for so long not a road | :02:52. | :02:56. | |
cycling nation, is flexing its leg muscles. This sort of thing happens | :02:56. | :03:01. | |
to other people and you never imagine it happens to you. So, it's | :03:01. | :03:05. | |
incredible. It's not the sort of thing you soak in at the time, what | :03:05. | :03:08. | |
a wonderful occasion. I bet you look back in years and think that | :03:08. | :03:12. | |
was special. And there's more. After waiting more than 100 years | :03:12. | :03:18. | |
for a man on the podium, Britain now has two. Standing on the left, | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
Bradley Wiggins team-mate, Chris Froome who came in second in the | :03:21. | :03:29. | |
Tour. It's the start, and I think we have been working very hard, ten | :03:29. | :03:35. | |
years now, and on a personal level I am as hungry and ambitious as | :03:35. | :03:39. | |
ever and have a lot to give to the sport. Hopefully this is the start | :03:39. | :03:42. | |
of a period where we can dominate. In a few days we turn to the hunt | :03:42. | :03:48. | |
for Olympic golds, but this summer it may be yellow by gleams the | :03:48. | :03:55. | |
brightest. As we've heard, the Tour de France | :03:55. | :03:58. | |
is considered the world's greatest and most gruelling cycle race. Our | :03:58. | :04:01. | |
sports editor David Bond looks at how today's victory compares with | :04:01. | :04:10. | |
other major sporting achievements. It's one of the most demanding | :04:10. | :04:14. | |
contests in modern sport. 4,000 gruelling kilometres over three | :04:14. | :04:19. | |
weeks of racing. In more than a century, no British man has tasted | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
the ecstasy of victory in the Tour de France. Until today. Until | :04:23. | :04:28. | |
Bradley Wiggins. Bradley Wiggins has scaled one of the great heights | :04:28. | :04:32. | |
of British sporting achievement. To be the first person in 109 years, | :04:32. | :04:38. | |
to win the Tour de France is an immense feat of physical and mental | :04:38. | :04:42. | |
ability and aptitude and the whole country wants to say well done. | :04:42. | :04:46. | |
Brilliant. The perfect backdrop and start for the Olympics. Even as a | :04:46. | :04:50. | |
young boy, growing up in north London, Wiggins dreamt of cycling | :04:50. | :04:54. | |
glory. He watched the Tour as a teenager, and as a keen student of | :04:54. | :04:59. | |
the sport he is well aware of what his triumph means. | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
But it was on the less exposed terrain of the Velodrome that the | :05:03. | :05:07. | |
32-year-old made his name, winning two Olympic gold medals in Beijing | :05:07. | :05:16. | |
in 2008, to add to his first in Athens four years earlier. | :05:16. | :05:21. | |
Having dominated track cycling for the past two two Games, Wiggins and | :05:21. | :05:24. | |
British cycling spent the last three trying to replicate that | :05:24. | :05:28. | |
success in the professional world of road racing. It was a bold | :05:28. | :05:32. | |
ambition. But one that has been delivered, well ahead of schedule. | :05:32. | :05:37. | |
It's the biggest thing in the sport of cycling for Great Britain, ever. | :05:37. | :05:41. | |
It's quite a big statement to make and even saying it now I am | :05:41. | :05:45. | |
checking back and thinking no, that's truly true - ever. A great | :05:45. | :05:51. | |
British ride Irwins the tour de-- rider wins the Tour de France and I | :05:51. | :05:58. | |
never thought I would see the day. Is it the pinnacle of British sport, | :05:58. | :06:04. | |
though? Steve Redgrave's five gold medals took sporting achievement to | :06:04. | :06:12. | |
a new level. Away from the Games Ian both am's 981 Ashes heroics | :06:12. | :06:18. | |
ensured his place in the greats. There are more contenders but it's | :06:18. | :06:23. | |
the unique and history historic nature which has guaranteed | :06:23. | :06:28. | |
Wiggins's right to be among And David is outside the Olympic | :06:28. | :06:33. | |
Velodrome now. Them. What a fantastic boost and great mood for | :06:33. | :06:38. | |
us all to go into the Olympics with in a few days' time, David. That's | :06:38. | :06:43. | |
right. As David Cameron was saying in that report, it provides the | :06:43. | :06:46. | |
perfect backdrop to the start of the Olympic week and for British | :06:46. | :06:50. | |
cycling it's a huge lift. They'll be hoping to win many, many more | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
gold medals in the Velodrome you can see over the next two weeks or | :06:55. | :07:01. | |
so. Sir Chris Hoy, Victoria pentlen to, all certain to feature there, | :07:01. | :07:04. | |
and also back in the road races with Bradley Wiggins going for gold | :07:04. | :07:08. | |
in the time trial and Mark Cavendish possibly winning | :07:08. | :07:12. | |
Britain's first gold to get the Games off to a flying start next | :07:12. | :07:15. | |
Saturday. It's part of this extraordinary transformation of | :07:15. | :07:20. | |
British cycling over the last decade or so. Wiggins' victory is | :07:20. | :07:24. | |
also going to be a huge boost for organisers who have had to | :07:24. | :07:29. | |
withstand a rocky ten days to two weeks with all the talk of problems | :07:29. | :07:33. | |
with security and venues and the difficulties perhaps over the | :07:33. | :07:40. | |
transport network in London and the rhetoric today from the chairman of | :07:40. | :07:45. | |
LOCOG was very much look, stop this whingeing, let's embrace this | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
extraordinary sporting spectacle which is about to unfold here. I | :07:49. | :07:53. | |
think Wiggins has given them the fairytale storyline to really | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
kickstart the Games and put some of those concerns to one side. | :07:57. | :08:07. | |
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Thank you. President Obama has arrived in Colorado to meet the | :08:09. | :08:12. | |
families of people killed and injured when a gunman went on the | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
rampage at a cinema on Friday. 12 people died and more than 50 were | :08:20. | :08:24. | |
injured in the town of Aurora. The flat rented by the man believed to | :08:24. | :08:27. | |
have carried out the attack has now been cleared of booby-traps. | :08:27. | :08:32. | |
Alistair Leithead is in Aurora now. Well, President Obama will only be | :08:32. | :08:36. | |
here for a couple of hours, but he will be visiting a local hospital | :08:36. | :08:40. | |
to meet survivors, those injured by the shooting in the cinema behind | :08:40. | :08:44. | |
me. He will also be meeting family members, community leaders ahead of | :08:44. | :08:48. | |
a big vigil planned here for later this evening. | :08:48. | :08:53. | |
We will rise from this... The dead and the injured were | :08:53. | :08:58. | |
remembered at Sunday Church services across this city. Everyone | :08:58. | :09:02. | |
has felt this tragedy, wondering what would drive a young man to | :09:02. | :09:09. | |
take so many lives. This is the suspect. James Holmes. | :09:09. | :09:15. | |
Video footage has emerged of him at a science camp six years ago. | :09:15. | :09:22. | |
mentor, who works... He was 18, confidently addressing the audience. | :09:22. | :09:29. | |
He said he wanted to make scientific recoveryy -- discoveries. | :09:30. | :09:34. | |
At his flat today, the police were continuing to collect evidence of | :09:34. | :09:38. | |
the weapons and ammunition he bought and the chemicals he used to | :09:38. | :09:42. | |
make a booby-trap bomb in his apartment T took police two days to | :09:43. | :09:48. | |
get into his flat. The home-made explosives were | :09:48. | :09:55. | |
removed safely and taken out into the desert to be destroyed. | :09:55. | :09:59. | |
The 12 people who were killed have now all been named by the coroner. | :09:59. | :10:06. | |
The eldest was 51, the youngest just six years old. She had gone to | :10:06. | :10:11. | |
the cinema with her mum, who is still critically ill. Her great- | :10:11. | :10:15. | |
aunt is devastated. She just wanted to have to have fun. She was what | :10:15. | :10:19. | |
you would want your six-year-old to be. Those who survivored are still | :10:19. | :10:25. | |
haunted by what happened in cinema 9. I beat you, I made it. You | :10:25. | :10:31. | |
didn't take my life. You didn't take my friend's life either. But I | :10:31. | :10:38. | |
pray and I feel so sorry for the other families. | :10:38. | :10:41. | |
A makeshift has appeared over the road from the cinema, a a cross for | :10:41. | :10:45. | |
each of the dead, for people to write messages, leave flowers and | :10:46. | :10:50. | |
pay their last respects. In the last hour we have heard | :10:50. | :10:55. | |
James homes was refused membership of a local gun range because of his | :10:55. | :10:59. | |
behaviour and the bizarre message he left on an answermachine. He | :10:59. | :11:03. | |
will be appearing in court for The First time on Monday morning | :11:03. | :11:12. | |
charged with multiple counts of first degree murder. | :11:12. | :11:15. | |
A seven-year-old boy has died from head injuries following an accident | :11:15. | :11:18. | |
at an open air museum in County Durham. Police say there was an | :11:18. | :11:21. | |
incident at the Beamish Museum involving a steam-powered traction | :11:21. | :11:23. | |
engine and trailer. The engine's driver is being | :11:23. | :11:28. | |
treated for shock. The Chinese capital Beijing has | :11:28. | :11:32. | |
been hit by its heaviest rains for more than 60 years. At least 35 | :11:32. | :11:34. | |
people have been killed and thousands have been moved out of | :11:34. | :11:37. | |
their homes. The torrential downpour flooded roads, and brought | :11:37. | :11:45. | |
down trees and power lines. Syrian government troops have | :11:45. | :11:48. | |
launched a major offensive to regain control of parts of the | :11:48. | :11:51. | |
capital, Damascus. Activists say three areas of the city are being | :11:51. | :11:54. | |
attacked by tanks and heavy weapons. In the second city, Aleppo, rebel | :11:54. | :11:58. | |
fighters are reported to have gained control of several areas. | :11:58. | :12:04. | |
Jim Muir has been monitoring the situation from Beirut. | :12:04. | :12:08. | |
The Damascus skyline, wreathed in smoke from heavy bombardments. This | :12:08. | :12:12. | |
district in the west of the city is one of several where regime forces | :12:12. | :12:17. | |
are battling to drive the rebels out. | :12:17. | :12:21. | |
They succeeded in the north-east of the capital at the cost of huge | :12:21. | :12:26. | |
destruction. These troops are believed to be from the much feared | :12:26. | :12:29. | |
Fourth Giggs, -- Division, commanded by the President's | :12:29. | :12:34. | |
brother. Mr Assad was receiving his army Chief of Staff and giving him | :12:34. | :12:38. | |
his orders. Presumably they were to restore control in the capital, and | :12:38. | :12:43. | |
the second City, Aleppo, at all costs. | :12:43. | :12:46. | |
Like Damascus, Aleppo, newspaper the north, had been relatively | :12:46. | :12:48. | |
untouched by trouble until last week. | :12:48. | :12:53. | |
Now Government forces are battling to dislodge rebels from several | :12:53. | :12:57. | |
quarters they've taken over. In a straight fight, the lightly armed | :12:57. | :13:00. | |
opposition fighters are little match for the regime's massive | :13:00. | :13:04. | |
firepower, but they believe they're on the path of victory. | :13:04. | :13:11. | |
TRANSLATION: The free Syrian Army has succeeded | :13:11. | :13:16. | |
in liberating most of the areas of the suburbs and the way is open to | :13:16. | :13:19. | |
liberate the city of Aleppo and from there to liberate the rest of | :13:19. | :13:26. | |
Syrian soil with God's will. Certainly the regime is not having | :13:26. | :13:32. | |
it all its own way as fighting rages in many parts of the country. | :13:32. | :13:36. | |
Refugees are spilling over the nearby border into Turkey, joining | :13:36. | :13:40. | |
thousands already there. None of them knows when it will be safe to | :13:40. | :13:49. | |
go home and who will be in charge when they do. | :13:49. | :13:53. | |
The Olympic torch has been making its way across London on day 65 of | :13:53. | :13:56. | |
the relay. The flame reached new heights as it was held aloft on the | :13:56. | :13:59. | |
London Eye by Amelia Hempleman- Adams, who last year became the | :13:59. | :14:08. | |
youngest person to ski to the South Pole. | :14:08. | :14:11. | |
Sport now, and for a full round-up of all the day's action, here's | :14:11. | :14:18. | |
Katherine Downes at the BBC Sport Centre. | :14:18. | :14:21. | |
Good evening. There was late drama at golf's Open Championship at | :14:21. | :14:29. | |
Royal Lytham. Ernie Els won by just one shot. Australia's Adam Scott | :14:29. | :14:32. | |
seemed to be cruising to victory but bogeyed the last four holes, so | :14:32. | :14:36. | |
it was Els who lifted the Claret Jug, for the second time in his | :14:36. | :14:39. | |
career. Andy Swiss reports. Even by sports outlandish standards, it was | :14:39. | :14:44. | |
a day which almost defied belief. A tale of one man's victory, and | :14:44. | :14:48. | |
another man's meltdown. Adam Scott had begun the day four shots clear | :14:48. | :14:58. | |
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and in tricky conditions seemed to Graeme McDowell's into the | :15:02. | :15:09. | |
undergrowth. While Els was going nicely it seemed little more than a | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
sideshow. Scott still led by four. The open as gooth good as his, then | :15:13. | :15:20. | |
one of golf's most spectacular implosions. Bogey followed bogey, | :15:20. | :15:25. | |
while ahead of him ems cranked up the pressure. Could it really | :15:25. | :15:31. | |
happen? It could. After three consecutive bogies Scott began his | :15:31. | :15:34. | |
final hole tied and his composure gone to pot. He scrambled gamely, | :15:34. | :15:42. | |
but he was left with this, to force a play-off. And so in 40 minutes of | :15:42. | :15:46. | |
madness, Scott had lost the seemingly unlosable and from Els, | :15:46. | :15:54. | |
even in his moment of triumph there a great play e a great friend of | :15:54. | :15:58. | |
mine. We have had great battles in the past. I feel very fortunate and | :15:58. | :16:05. | |
you are going to win many of these. You have too much talent. Rarely | :16:05. | :16:09. | |
has the Open delivered a more dramatic climax, for the fans here, | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
but above all for Ernie Els, what a day to remember. England will face | :16:15. | :16:18. | |
a difficult day at the crease tomorrow, as they look to avoid | :16:18. | :16:21. | |
defeat on the final day of the first test against South Africa. | :16:21. | :16:27. | |
They failed to take a single wicket today, as the the tourist amassed | :16:27. | :16:33. | |
637 runs, helped by a record breaking innings from Hashim Amla. | :16:33. | :16:39. | |
The batsmen were trailing by 150 runs at the close of play. Who | :16:39. | :16:42. | |
wouldn't want to be outside on a Sunday morning like this? England's | :16:43. | :16:47. | |
cricketers for a start. They had spent more than a day in the field | :16:47. | :16:51. | |
chasing after South Africans. Hashim Amla was creating most of | :16:51. | :16:55. | |
the work. Every milestone he passed another millstone round England's | :16:55. | :16:59. | |
neck. He moved beyond 200, alongside Jacques Kallis who was | :16:59. | :17:05. | |
also seen scoring in three figures. Amla became the first man to go to | :17:05. | :17:10. | |
300 for South Africa, his innings at types art as well as history. | :17:10. | :17:14. | |
And appreciated by all at the Oval. The tourists tired of record | :17:14. | :17:19. | |
breaking and turned their attention to winning the match. More than | :17:19. | :17:23. | |
2250 ahead they put England in, by then a wicket hadn't fallen in a | :17:23. | :17:29. | |
day. Alastair Cook lasted little more than a over. Jonathan Trott | :17:29. | :17:34. | |
wasn't far behind. Nor was Kevin Pietersen. And Andrew Strauss's | :17:34. | :17:39. | |
dismissal summed it up. Perhaps those long hours in the field have | :17:39. | :17:44. | |
sapped England's fight. There was a third victory of the season for | :17:44. | :17:50. | |
Ferrari's Fernando Alonso at the German Grand Prix, the Spaniard who | :17:50. | :17:54. | |
tops the drive's Championship led from pole position to the checkers | :17:54. | :17:57. | |
flag -- chequered flag. Jensen Button was moved up to second after | :17:57. | :18:01. | |
Sebastian Vettel was demoted for leaving the track to overtake him. | :18:01. | :18:06. | |
Lewis Hamilton retired nine laps from the finish. That is all the | :18:06. | :18:13. | |
sport for now. What a weekend. Back to you Jane. And finally tonight, | :18:13. | :18:17. | |
the stage and screen actor Simon Ward has died, following a long | :18:17. | :18:22. | |
illness. He was 70. His agent said his wife and three daughters were | :18:22. | :18:27. | |
at his side. He became an international star in 1972 after | :18:27. | :18:31. |