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Last year’s winner

Anna van der Breggen

Wales wing

George North

Mercedes’

Lewis Hamilton

Manchester City’s

Raheem Sterling

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Champions League

Tuesday & Wednesday, BT Sport 2 HD,

BT Sport 3 HD & BT Sport/ESPN HD,

kick-offs 5.55pm & 8pm

Ex-Liverpool and Barcelona playmaker

Philippe Coutinho could cause Spurs

problems when Bayern Munich

arrive at the Tottenham Hotspur

Stadium on Tuesday for match-day

two of the Champions League.

Manchester City and Raheem

Sterling welcome Croatian side

Dinamo Zagreb on the same night,

while Wednesday sees Liverpool’s

Sadio Mané face former club Red

Bull Salzburg at Anfield, and

Chelsea travelling to Lille for the

first time in European competition.

LIVE RUGBY UNION

Rugby World Cup

From Saturday, ITV HD

The pick of this week’s games is

in Tokyo, where Warren Gatland’s

Grand Slam champions Wales face

Michael Cheika’s Australia side

in Pool D on Sunday (kick-off

8.45am). There’s no game for

England this week, but elsewhere

Ireland play hosts Japan on

Saturday (8.15am, ITV HD), then

Russia on Thursday (11.15am, ITV

HD), while Scotland take on Samoa

on Monday (11.15am, ITV HD).

LIVE MOTORSPOR T

F1: Russian Grand Prix

Sunday, Sky Sports F1 HD & Sky Sports

Main Event HD, race starts 12.10pm

Mercedes have won all five races

since the Russian Grand Prix was

first staged in Sochi in 2014. Lewis

Hamilton was the winner last year,

but is not a fan of the circuit, which

has been criticised for being boring.

KARSTEN

WARHOLM

Of all the non-British athletes in

Doha, I’m really excited about

this young hurdler from Norway,

as he recently ran the second-

fastest time in history for the

400m hurdles with 46.92

seconds. Warholm will be

competing against a top star in

Rai Benjamin from the US, so I can

see a world record being broken.

W H E N TO WATC H

 Heats, Friday 27 September

& Saturday  Final, Monday

 For a full timetable of events,

t u r n to A - Z G u i d e , p a g e 29

LAURA MUIR

The 26-year-old from Inverness,

who’s competing in the 1,500m,

s h o u l d d o we l l a s s h e i s ra n ke d

No.1 in the world. Since winning

both the 1,500m and 3,000m

races at the European Indoor

Championships in Glasgow in

March, she has been managing

a calf injury but she’s doing well

now in training. She’s super-

competitive, so it will be really

interesting to see how she fares.

W H E N TO WATC H

 Heats, Wednesday & Thursday

 Final, Saturday 5 October

KATARINA JOHNSON-

THOMPSON

The Liverpudlian is definitely one to watch

again in the heptathlon. Her javelin has

really come on and she performed her

b i g g e s t l o n g j u m p i n fo u r ye a r s t h i s s e a s o n.

Her main rival will be Olympic champion

Nafi Thiam of Belgium, who is in great shape.

W H E N TO WATC H

 Wednesday & Thursday

LIVE CYCL I NG

Road World

Championships

Sat & Sun, BBC2 HD, BBC Red

Button & Eurosport 1 HD

As the event concludes in

Yorkshire, the women’s elite

road race over 149km from

Bradford to Harrogate takes

place on Saturday (starts

11.40am), with Dutch

defending champion Anna

van der Breggen among the

favourites. On Sunday, the

men’s elite road race covers

285km from Leeds to

Harrogate (starts 8.40am).

LIVE FOOTBALL

Philippe Coutinho

of Bayern Munich