Ian Wright
Football Analyst

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The German's leap was only a centimetre short of Greg Rutherford's winning jump at London 2012.

Bill Rice
BBC Radio Manchester

Manchester UnitedmanagerLouis van Gaalhas taken the unusual step of making Manchester City favourites for Sunday’s derby at Old Trafford. 

David Moyes was ridiculed by United fans for taking a similar stance ahead of a game against Liverpool when he was in charge, but the Dutchman’s assessment is based on the fact City – even with injuries to key players like Sergio Aguero and David Silva – are currently top of the Premier League, and United are third. 

Van Gaal’s suggestion seems to be United won’t be top dogs in Manchester again even if they win on Sunday and leapfrog their opponents, but until they clinch the Premier League title again.

British alpine skier Alex Tilley aims to 'fly the flag' for GB women during her first full World Cup season, which begins this weekend in Sölden, Austria.

She is the first British woman to attempt a full World Cup campaign since four-time Olympian Chemmy Alcott announced her retirement following the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia.

Watch her full interview with BBC Sport's Nick Hope here.

United manager Louis van Gaal on recovering from the midweek trip to CSKA Moscow:

"I hope that we have recovered. We have done everything to help the recovery, in the hotel, after the flight we go to training complex again for recovery. 

"We don’t train too much today, we have to recover as it’s still a match at a high level, but you have to cope with that."

Argentina coach Daniel Hourcade has named his team to face Australia in their semi-final, which kicks off at Twickenham at 16:00 GMT on Sunday.

He has made one change to the starting line-up that defeated Ireland 43-20 in the quarter-finals. Marcelo Bosch returns from suspension to replace Matías Moroni at outside-centre. Bosch missed the quarter-final after being cited for a dangerous tackle against Namibia on 11 October.

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Argentina: 

1. Marcos Ayerza 2. Agustin Creevy (captain) 3. Ramiro Herrera 4. Guido Petti 5. Tomas Lavanini 6. Pablo Matera 7. Juan Martin Fernandez Lobbe8. Leonardo Senatore 9. Martin Landajo 10. Nicolas Sanchez 11. Juan Imhoff 12. Juan Martin Hernandez 13. Marcelo Bosch 14. Santiago Cordero 15. Joaquin Tuculet

United manager Louis van Gaal on striker Wayne Rooney turning 30 and how long he can go on for:  It’s dependable of the player how he lives for his profession, how strong he is and how ambitious he is.

"All the players love a big challenge not just Wayne, they love these kind of matches."

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal on the close proximity of the clubs: 

"For me it’s not any issue I have to do my work you have to do work more rational and not emotional and for the fans it’s very emotional. I live in a village and it’s the talk of the town. We have to prepare our game, we have one day less so it is more difficult, do the meetings in a shorter time and we hope we can beat Manchester City."

Bill Rice
BBC Radio Manchester

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal says Manchester City will start Sunday’s derby at Old Trafford as favourites.

"You have to ask the fans, it’s not so important who is the favourite," he said. "When you look at the facts they are first and we are second or third, they are the favourite I think."

Manchester United manager Louis van Gaal tells MUTV: "Only Luke Shaw and Paddy McNair are injured for United. Ashley Young is back in training but not ready to play on Sunday."

He adds: "I think we shall recover from the Moscow trip. The talk of the town is this match."

German single-leg amputee Markus Rehm has just caused a sensation by jumping to 8.40m to set a new world record at the IPC World Championships.

That leap would have won Olympic gold at London 2012, and silver at the last three able-bodied World Championships

It was just one centimetre less than Greg Rutherford's winning leap at the Worlds in Beijing in August.

Rehm has won the last two German able-bodied championships, but was not allowed to compete at this year's World Championships, which puts his Olympic prospects in doubt.

One Swindon fan Albert Brind is so "disgusted" with what is going on at the club, he has returned his season ticket, club shirt and over £1000 worth of memorabilia. He tells BBC Wiltshire why.

Elizabeth Hudson
BBC Sport at IPC Athletics Championships, Doha

Paul Blake comes from a family of performers - his dad Paul appeared in Star Wars while his mum Kate was a dancer at the Royal Ballet and the 25-year-old, who is the GB team captain here, was thrilled to land silver in the T36 400m at the IPC Athletics World Championships.

Kate was also in attendance in Doha and will be hoping her son goes one better in the 800m event later in the programme.

Japanese player Tomokazu Harimoto, who aged 12 is the youngest player to qualify for the main draw of an International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) world tour event is to take on China's world number one, Olympic and world champion Ma Long in the first round of the Polish Open.

Harimoto's prize came after he beat 32-year-old Croatian Tan Ruiwu in a tight seven-game match in Warsaw on Thursday.