:00:14. > :00:19.Hello and welcome to the BBC Sport Centre.
:00:20. > :00:22.I'm Olly Foster, coming up on Saturday Sportsday we'll be live
:00:23. > :00:26.at the Tour de Yorkshire as we also reflect on a terrible week
:00:27. > :00:38.And we meet up with the wheeled Warriors.
:00:39. > :00:40.But first here are day's headlines so far...
:00:41. > :00:43.Ding Junhui has equalled the record for centuries scored by one player
:00:44. > :00:45.in a World Championship match - his sixth helped build a 14-10
:00:46. > :00:52.Mark Selby leads Marco Fu in the other semi.
:00:53. > :00:54.The Formula One World Champion Lewis Hamilton was quickest
:00:55. > :00:58.Qualifying for the Russian Grand Prix starts in the next 10 minutes.
:00:59. > :01:01.the World Squash Championship in Malaysia this morning.
:01:02. > :01:04.Egypt's Nour El Sherbini beat her by 3 games to 2 in Malaysia,
:01:05. > :01:10.that also knocked Massaro off the top of the world rankings.
:01:11. > :01:14.This week Team GB launched their official kit with 100 days to go
:01:15. > :01:22.to come home with plenty of medals, but this week may have
:01:23. > :01:29.of sexism and discrimination, British Cycling denied other claims
:01:30. > :01:35.that they had been selling publicly funded equipment online,
:01:36. > :01:37.then, one of their stars failed a drugs test -
:01:38. > :01:45.British cycling has been at the head of the country's sporting peloton,
:01:46. > :01:50.few saw the bumps in the road approaching. Shane Sutton the
:01:51. > :01:53.technical director of British cycling has resigned. Simon Yates is
:01:54. > :01:59.considered a rising star but has failed a drugs test. How did it
:02:00. > :02:02.start? Let's go back to last Saturday, Jessica Barnett had been
:02:03. > :02:07.dropped from the British team and accused the Australian Shane Sutton,
:02:08. > :02:12.the performance director, of sexism, claiming he told her to go and have
:02:13. > :02:31.You is accused of calling disabled cyclists
:02:32. > :02:40.gimps. I had heard it on numerous occasions. Later that day he
:02:41. > :02:43.resigned. He denies accusations but said in a statement, developments
:02:44. > :02:46.over the past few days have clearly become a distraction and it is for
:02:47. > :02:51.this reason that I believe it is in the best interests of British
:02:52. > :02:54.cycling for me to step down as technical director. He wanted the
:02:55. > :02:58.athletes to succeed and it's the right decision for him to step back
:02:59. > :03:02.and he made that decision in the best interests of the team, really.
:03:03. > :03:07.A key part of Britain's Olympic plans was gone, Sutton had been at
:03:08. > :03:12.the heart of British cycling for 14 years, its golden age. His success
:03:13. > :03:16.was undoubted, his approach divided opinion. Shane is a no-nonsense guy,
:03:17. > :03:24.but he was no-nonsense with men and women. It was the way he was and is.
:03:25. > :03:29.It works for some people and not for others. UK Sport announced an
:03:30. > :03:32.independent review into all forms of discrimination and bullying in
:03:33. > :03:37.British cycling, the spotlight is on cycling and it wasn't moving on. On
:03:38. > :03:41.Thursday UK capital of the sport ordered another investigation, this
:03:42. > :03:48.time over claims that official kit was sold online, claims denied by
:03:49. > :03:51.British Cycling. Late on Thursday night reports surfaced that
:03:52. > :03:57.potential Olympian Simon Yates failed a drugs test, his team blamed
:03:58. > :04:02.an administrative error over the use of an asthma inhaler. It is news
:04:03. > :04:07.that British cycling could have done without. With the Olympics less than
:04:08. > :04:10.100 days away, reddish cycling is looking in on itself. -- British
:04:11. > :04:12.cycling. Against that backdrop,
:04:13. > :04:15.the Tour de Yorkshire got underway yesterday 10 of thousands turning
:04:16. > :04:18.out to cheer on the elite men's road racers and today the women have
:04:19. > :04:21.raced on the same stage, Tanya Arnold is at the
:04:22. > :04:30.finish there for us. we really need some positive
:04:31. > :04:43.headlines around cycling We nearly did, though, Lucy Gardner
:04:44. > :04:51.was just pipped to the line by Kirsten Wilde from the Netherlands.
:04:52. > :04:56.Lizzie Armitstead is the world racing champion, she was in the pack
:04:57. > :05:00.at the end. She talked about her pride in this race and the quality
:05:01. > :05:04.of the race and said it was a goose pimples moment for her when she left
:05:05. > :05:09.her home town of Otley this morning on such a prestigious race. That
:05:10. > :05:13.would have been great for as many people to see as possible but
:05:14. > :05:19.because of technical difficulties it was not broadcast live on
:05:20. > :05:24.television? Absolutely awful for the organisers here. They have worked
:05:25. > :05:29.really, really hard to give the women's race as much of a boost as
:05:30. > :05:33.possible, a record prize fund of ?15,000 going to the winner, but the
:05:34. > :05:39.other plank was to get the same coverage as the men's race, to show
:05:40. > :05:42.the whole race live. But they have had horrible technical difficulties
:05:43. > :05:46.with the aeroplane that beams pictures back, one of those things
:05:47. > :05:50.totally out of their control, still working to get it fixed for the
:05:51. > :05:55.men's race, but Gary Verity from Welcome To Yorkshire who organises
:05:56. > :05:58.the race was devastated. Many thanks indeed.
:05:59. > :06:01.The best amateur boxers in England are competing at the National Finals
:06:02. > :06:05.On the bill for the first time will be a demonstration
:06:06. > :06:11.It's a new sport that is growing quickly...
:06:12. > :06:12.The Wheeled Warriors Boxing Organisation is aiming
:06:13. > :06:42.My name is Paul Rodgers and so on. I am 45 years old. I trained in karate
:06:43. > :06:47.when I was a teenager and at the age of 207I had an accident which left
:06:48. > :06:55.me disabled and I started to do a bit of boxing exercises. -- the age
:06:56. > :06:59.of 27. Most people think that it's an April fools joke, they can't
:07:00. > :07:04.imagine how it would work, it's more about positioning and agility in the
:07:05. > :07:07.chair, getting into the right position and range, that is
:07:08. > :07:11.everything, if you are not in range you will never be able to throw a
:07:12. > :07:15.punch. Doing it at an elite level fuels the lower level and if we can
:07:16. > :07:21.get it into the Paralympics it will mean that people locally will be
:07:22. > :07:25.able to get involved. We have actually built up a report in 18
:07:26. > :07:31.countries, and we would like to be an umbrella organisation. That would
:07:32. > :07:39.bring a stability of equal matching with classifications, so I would say
:07:40. > :07:43.that we have done the hard work. We just need some more small steps to
:07:44. > :07:49.get the glory at the end, that is the Paralympics. It is giving
:07:50. > :07:52.disabled people chance to compete at the same level as able-bodied
:07:53. > :07:57.people, which you can see in many sports, but boxing I feel has always
:07:58. > :08:01.been left out. If we feel comfortable with it, then really it
:08:02. > :08:04.is our right to do that. Look at this sport with your eyes open and a
:08:05. > :08:15.fresh mind, rather than your eyes closed. And a perspective that has
:08:16. > :08:19.been put into your head previously. It represents that first milestone
:08:20. > :08:25.for wheelchair boxing. The fact that I will probably be put the question
:08:26. > :08:30.in 20 years' time, it will come up time and again, I hope. Good luck to
:08:31. > :08:31.them, they are fighting tomorrow in Liverpool.
:08:32. > :08:42.Celtic can win the Scottish Premiership today. They are leading
:08:43. > :08:47.Hearts 1-0. Selby is still leading Marco Fu 11-10 in Sheffield. From
:08:48. > :08:49.everyone at the BBC Sport Centre, have a great weekend, whatever sport
:08:50. > :09:04.you are watching. Goodbye. Gareth Malone is putting together
:09:05. > :09:05.a choir... Please, come in.
:09:06. > :09:08...for the Invictus Games. It's definitely the most vulnerable
:09:09. > :09:11.group I've ever dealt with.