Sportsday Live - Wednesday 22 August as it happened

And with that Sportsday bids farewell to you for another day. Why not switch now to our live text commentary of tonight's football, courtesy of BBC Sport's Tom Rostance?

Sportsday will be back tomorrow for another batch of news and analysis. Thank you for your contributions and goodbye.

Sportsday has now finished on the BBC News Channel.

Motherwell manager Stuart McCall has a different approach in mind for the visit of Levante in the Europa League play-off round.

The Steelmen reached this stage of the competition after being eliminated from the Champions League qualifiers by Greeks side Panathinaikos.

McCall hopes to learn from the mistakes made in those games.

"Defensively we've got to be a wee bit more aware and cute when we do attack," the Lanarkshire side's manager said.

It's all over in Bristol. Ravi Bopara was dismissed cheaply as South Africa beat Gloucestershire by three wickets in their 50 overs tour match at Bristol.

Essex batsman Bopara, who was playing for Gloucestershire to get some practice ahead of England's ODI series against the Proteas, made just three runs in Gloucestershire's total of 261 all out.

A South Africa team containing just two players from the third Test win over England at Lord's chased down the total with an over to spare.

If you refresh your browser in 10 minutes you will be able to view a television roundup of all the days' sports news and action via BBC News Channel's informative Sportsday programme.

Chris Froome of Team Sky remains just a single second behind overall race leader Joaquim Rodriguez in the Vuelta a Espana following the conclusion of today's fifth stage.

Germany's John Degenkolb of team Argos beat Italy's Daniele Bennati in a sprint finish to win the 168km stage around Logrono.

A total of 100,000 tickets to go to the Olympic Park during the 2012 Paralympics are on sale.

Anyone who buys the tickets will be able to get in to the grounds at the site in Stratford, east London, but none of the venues.

These "non-event" tickets will cost £5 for adults and £1 for under-16s and the over-60s, London 2012 said.

Tickets can only be bought at www.tickets.london2012.com. Wheelchair users can buy tickets by calling 0844 847 2012. Buyers can only pay with a Visa card.

The Ryder Cup looms large over Gleneagles ahead of the Johnnie Walker Championship.

Paul Lawrie, who will compete as part of Europe's team at the end of September, says of the prospect of taking on the USA team: "It's been a long time - 13 years since I played last time, so I can't wait.

"Sometimes you kind of don't realise how good you've got to play to get in. It's a huge achievement."

Worcestershire batsman James Cameron has decided to retire from county cricket at the age of just 26 - to pursue a new career in the City of London.

The Zimbabwean, in his third year with Worcestershire, arrived at New Road from Australian grade cricket in 2010.

"I have decided to retire from county cricket to pursue a career in financial services," said Cameron.

"It has been an extremely difficult decision but, after much discussion with both family and close friends, I feel that it is in my best long-term interests.

Alan Pardew has admitted a Football Association misconduct charge for pushing an assistant referee, the Newcastle manager confirms.

Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake's manager, Cubee Seegobin, suggests his runner may not face fellow countryman Usain Bolt in a race again this year.

Bolt is due to contest the 200m in Thursday's Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, while Blake will run in the 100m.

"It's something for the managers, the meeting director and sponsors," said Seegobin

"And I don't think of it in terms of confrontation but in terms of what the organiser offers."

Macedonia name Cedomir Janevski as new national coach to replace former Wales and Real Madrid boss John Toshack who stepped down 10 days ago after just a year in charge.

Toshack had been asked to live in Macedonia but preferred to continue commuting from Spain.

The funeral for late darts commentator Sid Waddell has taken place in Pudsey, West Yorkshire.

Those in attendance included former England cricket captain Andrew Flintoff, five-time darts world championship winner Eric Bristow and chairman of the Professional Darts Corporation Barry Hearn.

Said Flintoff: "At home we'd spend hours watching him entertaining us.

"He was a great man. There's not too many people who can make people smile instantly and spread happiness almost. He'll be sadly missed."

Rangers will face Queen of the South in the Ramsdens Cup quarter-finals on 9 September.

Spain's Euro 2012 winning duo Fernando Llorente and Javi Martinez are left out of Athletic Bilbao's Europa League playoff squad as speculation intensifies about them leaving the club. Striker Llorente looks set for Italian champions Juventus, while versatile midfielder Martinez could snub Manchester City and move to Champions League finalists Bayern Munich.

Cal Crutchlow's current team-mate, Andrea Dovizioso, has signed a deal to ride for the factory Ducati team in 2013 & 2014. Crutchlow had been linked with the place but could now be forced to stay with the Tech 3 team next season. Dovizioso replaces nine-time World Champion Valentino Rossi, who will return to Yamaha.

BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght on BBC Radio 5 live: "The best race horse in world has just got better. That is a really an astonishing performance. I think Tom Queally patted his forehead almost in mock disbelief - 13 wins out of 13 races, history made by Frankel. It does seem a pity but it's very likely he will only race once more. We want to see more and more and more and more."

Trainer Sir Henry Cecil, who is receiving treatment for cancer, on Frankel's win: "It was fantastic and it is great for Yorkshire. They support racing and they deserved to see him. It makes me feel 20 years better."

Jockey Tom Queally praises Frankel after riding the colt to a 13th race undefeated: "I suspected they'd go a good gallop, but we had our plan in place. It panned out nicely - he won ever so well. It's a fantastic training performance."

The top three for the 15:40 BST Juddmonte International Stakes at York:

1 Frankel (jockey T P Queally) 1-10 Fav

2 Farhh (L Dettori) 10-1

3 St Nicholas Abbey (J P O'Brien) 5-1

The Juddmonte International Stakes is over, and surprise, surprise, Frankel wins again to stretch out to a 13-race unbeaten run.

They are underway in the Juddmonte International Stakes, and red hot favourite Frankel is last out of the gate...

It is approximately two minutes until we will see Frankel race beyond a mile for the first time in his remarkable career. BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght examines whether the colt can last the distance...

Leeds Rhinos back Zak Hardaker says he is looking forward to playing in Saturday's Challenge Cup final against Warrington Wolves after recording last year's game from the stands: "I captured most of it on video and I was looking back at it the other day, thinking how funny it was because this time I will be the one someone is filming."

There is less than half an hour to go now until Frankel bids to make it 13 races undefeated. In the 1505 race at York, 9-1 runner Thought Worthy edges 13-8 favourite Main Sequence into second place, with 7-1 shot Encke coming home in third.

Arsenal have made "a big mistake" selling Robin van Persie and Alex Song but still have the quality to challenge for silverware, former Gunners striker Eduardo tells BBC Sport's David Ornstein. "It is a big mistake to sell them - they were the most important players last season," he says. "But they have other quality players to stay as a big club at the top."

Cardiff complete the signing of versatile QPR defender Matthew Connolly, 24, for an undisclosed fee.

Captain Mahendra Singh Dhoni says India will miss the experience of Rahul Dravid and VVS Laxman but expects young players to step up in the upcoming series against New Zealand. "Definitely these two are great players and we will miss them on the field," he said. "But at the same time it's an opportunity for youngsters to take up the responsibility in the longest format."

AC Milan and Italy forward Antonio Cassano has with Giampaolo Pazzini moving in the opposite direction. Cassano says: "Finally I am at the team I have always supported."

Russian MP Igor Lebedev has accused the country's soccer union (RFU) of overspending its budget and called for new Russia coach Fabio Capello's contract details to be made public.

"The disproportion between spending on hiring several foreign coaches for the national team and the money spent on the development of mass soccer in Russia is quite obvious," he said.

Great Britain's four-time sailing gold medallist Ben Ainslie is still undecided whether he will compete in the 2016 games in Rio De Janeiro.

"Of course, I'd love to be in Rio but there are so many challenges and factors that need to fall into place before I can make that decision. So at this stage nothing has changed. I'm not ruling anything in or anything out," he said.

Motherwell manager Stuart McCall does not expect former Everton and Scotland striker James McFadden, 29, to sign a deal at Fir Park following contract talks.

"James has spoken to people who are a lot higher than I am at Motherwell who deal with the purse strings and I don't think the outcome was favourable," McCall said.

Australia coach Mickey Arthur believes it will take a long time for Kevin Pietersen to regain the trust of his England team-mates.

"They say trust and reputation takes a year to two years to really build, and you can lose it in two minutes. I think that's where they've got to with KP now," he told ESPN Cricinfo.

Yohan Blake says his manager Cubie Seegobin will decide whether he and Usain Bolt will race against each other again head-to-head this season. Blake runs in the 100m in Thursday's Athletissima meeting with Bolt racing in the 200m, and the pair will also avoid each other at Diamond League meets in Zurich and Brussels.

"I love to race against (Bolt) but I leave that to my manager," he said.

Steven Gerrard, Luis Suarez, Martin Skrtel and Glen Johnson have all been omitted from the Liverpool squad for Thursday night's Europa League play-off first leg against Hearts at Tynecastle.

McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh expects Lewis Hamilton to sign a new contract with the team when his deal runs out at the end of the season.

"Ultimately it is relatively straightforward. If Lewis wants to stay in the team, which he has told me he does, then he should do. And if we want to keep him, then we should do," Whitmarsh said.

Lyon and France goalkeeper Hugo Lloris is unlikely to move to Tottenham during the summer transfer window.

"As he has started the (Ligue 1) championship, Hugo is less hot to leave. He wants to continue at Lyon," Lyon special advisor Bernard Laporte said.

Former Inter Milan and Brazil forward Adriano has re-signed for Flamengo, following his release by Corinthians in March after he failed to reach a suitable level of match fitness.

"I'm going to honour this shirt, which has always been mine, with a lot of goals," Adriano, 30, said.

A new initiative announced by the Football Association will allow English non-league clubs to bid for grants of up to £150,000. 16 individual grants of £50,000 are available over the next two years under the scheme, with one club each year then eligible for a £100,000 super grant.

"This £1million investment as part of the Budweiser Club Futures programme is a fantastic gesture, with the £100,000 super grant being a real pot of gold for the clubs involved," Sir Trevor Brooking, the FA's director of football development, said.

The four South Korean badminton players who purposely tried to lose their last group matches at the London Olympics will be banned for six months.

The Korean badminton association disciplinary committee banned the two women's doubles pairs from international and domestic play for six months following their disqualification from the Olympics for trying to deliberately lose in order to manipulate the knockout rounds.

Arsenal have appointed Pat Holland as the club's new under-18s coach, and the former West Ham player will be joined at the academy by new youth development coach Kwame Ampadu.

Steve Gatting, who has been an academy coach at the club since the summer of 2007, becomes the assistant professional development coach.

Real Madrid manager Jose Mourinho believes that a move to the Premier League will improve Nuri Sahin as a player. The 23-year-old is set to join Arsenal on a season-long loan with a view to a permanent transfer.

"I think the Premier League will suit Sahin. The competition can give a player new attributes," Mourinho said.

Peter Enckelman is not worried about making his Hearts debut against Liverpool on Thursday, despite only signing for the SPL club on Friday. Enkleman, 35, is on stand-by for an appearance in the first leg of the Europa League play-off at Tynecastle as first-choice goalkeeper Jamie MacDonald's pregnant partner is expected to give birth this week.

"It's a lot to take in during a week but the good thing is I'm old. I think I've got a reasonably wise head on my shoulders so experience should see me through," the former Aston Villa goalkeeper said.

England team director Andy Flower says Kevin Pietersen's focus on the Indian Premier League has played a significant role in the problems he is facing in his international career.

"I think it's fair to say that his issues over being available for the entire IPL have changed his attitude," Flower said.

South Korea's Olympic badminton coach Sung Han-kook has had a lifetime suspension cut to two years, while four players sent home from the London Games for throwing matches also have their bans reduced.

The four women's doubles players booted out of the Games for their part in the scandal had two-year bans cut to six months after an appeal to Korean badminton's ruling body.

Everton academy coach Kevin Sheedy is diagnosed with bowel cancer, the club reveals.

Sheedy, 52, twice helped the Toffees win the title in 1985 and 1987 as well as the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1985 during a career spanning 369 games for the club.

"It's not ideal but I have to remain positive," says Sheedy. "There is a history in the family."

Olympic silver medal winning modern pentathlete Samantha Murray will be one of the guests of honour at a civic reception in her home town of Clitheroe in Lancashire on 25 August.

Jon Schofield, also is also originally from Clitheroe and won bronze at London 2012, will also be at the reception hosted by Ribble Valley Borough Council.

An Italian football tribunal confirms a 10-month ban for Juventus coach Antonio Conte, rejecting his appeal against a verdict handed down earlier this month.

Conte, who led an undefeated Juventus to the Italian title in his first season in charge last term, was accused of failing to report incidents of match-fixing in two games in the 2010-11 season when he was the coach of then Serie B side Siena.

Bolton's Reebok Stadium will host the replay on 5 September if Saturday's Challenge Cup final between Leeds and Warrington ends in a draw.

Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson on Danny Welbeck signing on a new four year contract: ""Danny has been with the club since he was eight years old and has made fantastic progress in the last couple of years - first out on loan and last year as a regular in the first team.

"He has become an important player at international level as well, as the maturity of his performances at the European Championships showed.

"This year is another important one for him. He has a bright future ahead of him."

Danny Welbeck on signing on a new four year deal at Manchester United: "Playing for United is all I've ever wanted to do - it's the club I've supported all my life.

"I can't wait for the challenge of the new season to play my part in helping the team compete for trophies. I'm learning all the time from the best manager in the game and I'm keen for that to continue alongside the world class players in the squad."

Wolves manager Stale Solbakken on the prospect of losing Steven Fletcher and Matt Jarvis tells the Express & Star: "You can't replace them at this level - if the ideal line-up included Kightly, Fletcher and Jarvis and it ends up without those three, we need to rebuild it, which can take time."

QPR and Real Madrid agree a deal that could see the former Chelsea defender Ricardo Carvalho move to Loftus Road on a season-long loan.

The 34-year-old former Portugal defender has yet to agree personal terms but it is understood talks will take place with the player over the next 48 hours.

Carvalho left Chelsea for Real Madrid two years ago.

Birmingham manager Lee Clark says Jack Butland's error in the 3-2 defeat at Sheffield Wednesday is a 'wake up call for everybody'.

England international Butland, 19, dropped a Jose Semedo cross under no pressure, and Reda Johnson headed into an empty net for his second goal in two games.

"Listen, when you are a goalkeeper and you make an error, I would say nine times out of 10 the ball ends up in the goal and unfortunately that's what happened," Clarke tells the Birmingham Mail.

"I have no doubts that throughout the long career he will have there will be more. "It's just maybe a wake up call for everybody because the hype that has surrounded the lad the last few months, we have just got to put it into context."

Scotland's Paul Lawrie is delighted to have ensured a return to the Ryder Cup arena, 13 years after his first outing in the biennial contest with the USA.

"It feels unbelievable," said Lawrie, who qualifies fourth on the European points table. "At 43 years of age, to play in the Ryder Cup again is pretty special."

The Ryder Cup takes place 28-30 September in Illinois, United States.

Neil Lennon warns his Celtic players they face a stiff challenge from Helsingborgs to reach the group stage of the Champions League for the first time in four years.

Celtic established a 2-0 first leg lead in Sweden on Tuesday, but Lennon says: "There was enough there to worry me.

"They were impressive and there is still a lot to play for in the tie."

Blackburn play their first home game tonight since suffering relegation from the Premier League, Hull the visitors to Ewood Park.

But there is discontent in the air with fans threatening to stay away as they are upset with events behind the scenes.

"We as a group who are an elected voice for supporters are disappointed that no apology has been forthcoming from either the owners or manager following the club's relegation last season," a BRFC action group statement reads.

"We are deeply hurt that so many supporters feel the need to stay away from Ewood Park due to the owner's continued refusal to remove Steve Kean as manager."

Chelsea can go top of the Premier League for the first time since November 2010 if they overcome Reading tonight.

But Reading midfielder Mikele Leigertwood insists the visitors will attack from the off at Stamford Bridge.

"You can't go into any games fearing teams or sitting back. You have to attack and put teams under pressure and I'm sure we'll do that," Leigertwood said.

"We want to give a good account of ourselves and go there and win, hopefully."

Top seed Agnieszka Radwanska suffers a scare ahead of the US Open as she retires from her opening match at the WTA's New Haven Open with a sore right shoulder.

Qualifier Olga Govortsova of Belarus is leading their second round contest 6-0 2-1 when Poland's Radwanska, the Wimbledon runner-up, calls it a day.

"I think Grand Slam is the most important tournament, obviously," Radwanska said. "I was just scared to play more."

Frankel faces the 13th and perhaps most important test of his unbeaten career so far in the £725,000 Juddmonte International Stakes today, the feature event at York's Ebor Festival.

For the first time, the Sir Henry Cecil-trained colt is being asked to show the brilliance that has earned him the rating of best horse in the world in a race of beyond a mile in distance.

BBC horse racing correspondent Cornelius Lysaght previews Frankel's chances and just how important the race is.

Coverage: 15:40 BST, on BBC 5 Live & 5 Live Sports Extra.

As always, here are three stories from our football gossip column.

Tottenham are close to securing the £20m signing of 24-year-old Shakhtar Donetsk forward Willian and have reignited their interest in Internacional striker Leandro Damia, 23. (Daily Mail)

Chelsea manager Roberto Di Matteo will make a £35m move for Napoli's Uruguay international striker Edinson Cavani, 25. (Sun)

Liverpool are prepared for 23-year-old Andy Carroll to spend the season sitting on the bench, rather than sell him for a cut-price fee to a Premier League rival. (Daily Express)