{"id":2628,"date":"2012-07-02T09:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-02T09:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/?p=2628"},"modified":"2012-07-02T09:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-02T09:25:16","slug":"the-bouras-bulletin-24","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-24\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bouras Bulletin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain made history in last night\u2019s Euro 2012 final, becoming the first side to win three successive major international tournaments with a 4-0 win over Italy in Kiev.<\/p>\n<p>Italy were outclassed from start to finish by the Spanish, who opening the scoring as early as the 14th minute through David Silva.\u00a0Jordi Alba\u2019s surging run was spotted by Xavi Hernandez and the full-back finished past Buffon in the Italian goal for his side\u2019s second just before half-time.<\/p>\n<p>Italy were forced to play with ten men from as early as the 60th minute when their third and final substitute Thiago Motta pulled up with a hamstring injury minutes after coming on.\u00a0Spain showed no sign of letting up, though, and Chelsea duo Fernando Torres and Juan Mata completed the rout.<\/p>\n<p>Australia\u2019s tour of England got off to a bad start over the weekend. England won the first one-day international by 15 runs at Lords on Friday and followed it up with victory at the Oval on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Ravi Bopara scored 82 from 85 balls after Ian Bell\u2019s 75 to put England within two runs of victory before being run out by Brett Lee. Eoin Morgan finished the job for England to win with more than four overs to spare.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray made it into the second week of Wimbledon after a late-night win over Marcos Baghdatis. Murray came though 7-5 3-6 7-5 6-1 on Friday night, finishing at 11.02pm.\u00a0Murray will play Marin Cilic who beat Sam Querrey in what was the second-longest match in Wimbledon history.<\/p>\n<p>Jo Pavey won a silver medal in the final of the 10,000m at the European Championships in Helsinki yesterday, behind Ana Dulce Felix of Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s 4x400m team earnt a silver medal as well, but the 4x100m team suffered embarrassment yet again. Christian Malcolm couldn\u2019t pass the baton to Dwain Chambers within the specified area.<\/p>\n<p>Welsh golfer Jamie Donaldson took his first European Tour title, winning the Irish Open at Portrush on Sunday by four shots, shooting 65 in his final round.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage of this year\u2019s Tour de France was won by tour debutant Peter Sagan in a sprint ahead of Fabian Cancellara and Edvald Boasson Hagen. Cancellara maintained the yellow jersey, seven seconds ahead of Bradley Wiggins.<\/p>\n<div class=\"linkwithin_hook\" id=\"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-24\/\"><\/div><script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png?w=750\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spain made history in last night\u2019s Euro 2012 final, becoming the first side to win three successive major international tournaments with a 4-0 win over Italy in Kiev. Italy were outclassed from start to finish by the Spanish, who opening the scoring as early as the 14th minute through David Silva.\u00a0Jordi Alba\u2019s surging run was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<script>\n<!-- \/\/LinkWithinCodeStart\nvar linkwithin_site_id = 897245;\nvar linkwithin_div_class = \"linkwithin_hook\";\n\/\/LinkWithinCodeEnd -->\n<\/script>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/widget.js\"><\/script>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.linkwithin.com\/pixel.png\" alt=\"Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...\" style=\"border: 0\" \/><\/a>","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[23,48,83,101,125,160,179,182,205],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PoLK-Go","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2601,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-21\/","url_meta":{"origin":2628,"position":0},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"11 June 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Euro 2012 kicked off in Poland and Ukraine over the weekend, with England preparing to play France this evening. Yesterday saw the Italy frustrate Spain in the most highly-anticipated match so far. Antonio Di Natale scored minutes after coming on as a substitute to give Italy and deserved lead but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2620,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-23\/","url_meta":{"origin":2628,"position":1},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"25 June 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"England\u2019s Euro 2012 campaign ended in agony last night as they went out on penalties yet again after drawing 0-0 with Italy. Ricardo Montolivo missed Italy\u2019s second spot-kick to give England the advantage but Ashley Young and Ashley Cole missed consecutive penalties to allow Alessandro Diamanti the chance to win\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Bouras Bulletin&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2840,"url":"https:\/\/www.cvm.org.uk\/blog\/the-bouras-bulletin\/the-bouras-bulletin-34\/","url_meta":{"origin":2628,"position":2},"title":"The Bouras Bulletin","date":"10 September 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The curtain finally came down on a brilliant month of sport in London with the closing ceremony of the Paralympics. Paralympics GB finished third in the medals table behind China and Russia, smashing their medals target to finish on 34 golds and 120 medals in total. 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