Crotone completed one of the greatest escapes Serie A has seen by beating Lazio on the final day to stay up.

The minnows - in their first season in the top flight - picked up just two points from their opening 10 games and were eight points adrift of safety at the start of April.
But a run of six wins and two draws in their final nine games kept them up.
They would have gone down had Empoli won, but they lost 2-1 to Palermo to suffer relegation.
Crotone's chances before kick-off did not look good as they faced fifth-placed Lazio, but they were deserved winners.
Andrea Nalini and Diego Falcinelli - their only player to score more than four goals this season - gave them a 2-0 lead before Ciro Immobile pulled one back from a penalty.
But Bastos was sent off for Lazio and Nalini scored a second as Crotone celebrated one of the most famous days in their history.
Match ends, Crotone 3, Lazio 1.
Second Half ends, Crotone 3, Lazio 1.
Substitution, Crotone. Andrej Kotnik replaces Aleksandar Tonev.
Substitution, Crotone. Giuseppe Borello replaces Diego Falcinelli.
Corner,  Crotone. Conceded by Giorgio Spizzichino.
Attempt saved. Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ciro Immobile.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Substitution, Crotone. Djamel Mesbah replaces Andrea Nalini.
Delay in match Andrea Nalini (Crotone) because of an injury.
Alessandro Rossi (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Marcus Rohden (Crotone).
Attempt saved. Gianmarco Ferrari (Crotone) header from the left side of the six yard box is saved in the top left corner. Assisted by Andrea Barberis.
Foul by Alessandro Murgia (Lazio).
Diego Falcinelli (Crotone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Alessandro Murgia (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrea Barberis (Crotone).
Attempt missed. Aleksandar Tonev (Crotone) right footed shot from outside the box is too high. Assisted by Andrea Barberis following a corner.
Corner,  Crotone. Conceded by Giorgio Spizzichino.
Corner,  Crotone. Conceded by Giorgio Spizzichino.
Substitution, Lazio. Giorgio Spizzichino replaces Wallace.
Sergej Milinkovic-Savic (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Andrea Nalini (Crotone).
Ciro Immobile (Lazio) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Federico Ceccherini (Crotone).
Foul by Luca Crecco (Lazio).
Marcus Rohden (Crotone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Wallace (Lazio).
Andrea Nalini (Crotone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Lazio. Alessandro Rossi replaces Felipe Anderson.
Substitution, Lazio. Luca Crecco replaces Lucas Biglia.
Attempt missed. Diego Falcinelli (Crotone) left footed shot from outside the box misses to the right.
Delay over. They are ready to continue.
Delay in match Wallace (Lazio) because of an injury.
Delay in match Aleksandar Tonev (Crotone) because of an injury.
Foul by Wallace (Lazio).
Diego Falcinelli (Crotone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Attempt blocked. Ciro Immobile (Lazio) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked. Assisted by Felipe Anderson.
Alessandro Murgia (Lazio) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Aleksandar Tonev (Crotone).
Andrea Nalini (Crotone) is shown the yellow card for excessive celebration.


Creative industries festival XpoNorth is taking place in Inverness.

The event, which started on Wednesday and wraps up later on Thursday, involves workshops, talks, film screenings and music performances.
Musical acts include The Voice South Africa's Lana Crowster, Kenyan pop star Silas Miami and Isle of Barra musician Claire-Frances MacNeil.
This year's XpoNorth has attracted more than 2,500 delegates and is to feature more than 120 speakers.
Pop stars Crowster and Silas feature on the soundtrack of Sidney and Friends, a new documentary exploring the hopes, dreams and reality of Kenya's intersex and transgender community.
The film, made by Tristan Aitchison from the Black Isle, received a special screening at XpoNorth on Thursday ahead of its international festival release.


The chair of the independent inquiry into child sex abuse has vowed to continue after a victims' group quit and called for her to be replaced.

In the Times, Prof Alexis Jay wrote: "I have fought for this... I don't intend to stop fighting for it now."
The Shirley Oaks Survivors Association, for 600 victims who lived in children's homes in London, said it did not have confidence in the inquiry's leadership.
But Home Secretary Amber Rudd has backed Prof Jay's leadership.
Prof Jay, who is the fourth chair of the inquiry following earlier resignations, wrote that she was "genuinely saddened" by the group's decision to withdraw "but our work continues".
She wrote: "I have fought for this inquiry - for its independence, its reputation and its vital capacity to right a terrible wrong - since it opened, and I don't intend to stop fighting for it now.
"There are some people who would like to see us fail because it suits their agenda to not want dark institutional failings brought into the light.
"But shine that light we will, because there are many, many people in this country who spend every waking minute of every day living with the damage and the pain caused by child sexual abuse."
The treatment of children in care in Lambeth, south London, from the 1950s onwards is one of 13 areas the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) is due to look at.
It will investigate the claim that a large paedophile network infiltrated children's homes in the area, run by Lambeth Council, with the Shirley Oaks group due to have been a "core participant" in the process.
On Friday the group called the inquiry a "stage-managed event" and an "unpalatable circus" which had "lurched from crisis to crisis".
Raymond Stevenson, who has spoken about being physically abused during his time at the Shirley Oaks home in the 1970s, said: "The inquiry needs to sort itself out. They need to get rid of Alexis Jay, who's been parachuted in by the Home Office. She's not the right person."
Labour MP Chuka Umunna called for a new head, but inquiry panel member Dru Sharpling defended chairwoman Prof Jay as being "qualified for the job."
Prof Jay wrote that the Shirley Oaks Survivors Association "condemns me for having been a social worker and asks how this inquiry can truly be independent.
"But anyone who knows me, has worked with me or is familiar with my record at other inquiries knows I have vigorously scrutinised the work of social workers and all other agencies."
The inquiry said in a statement: "Our investigation will continue and will examine the scale and nature of the abuse that may have taken place under the care of Lambeth Council with pace, confidence and clarity."
The inquiry has been beset by difficulties since it was set up in July 2014 to investigate allegations made against local authorities, religious organisations, the armed forces and public and private institutions in England and Wales, as well as people in the public eye.
Three chairwomen - former president of the High Court Family Division Baroness Butler-Sloss, her replacement, leading lawyer Dame Fiona Woolf, and Justice Goddard, a New Zealand high court judge - have already stood down before Prof Jay took charge.
A number of senior lawyers on the inquiry have also quit - the most recent of which was Aileen McColgan, who resigned on Wednesday amid concerns about the inquiry's leadership.


Northern Ireland Under-21 midfielder Ben Kennedy has extended his contract with Stevenage until 2019.

Kennedy, 20, has made 78 appearances for the League Two club since his debut in January 2015.
"Ben is a unique talent," Stevenage chairman Phil Wallace told his club's website.
"He is a big-game player and we have worked hard to develop him on and off the pitch since he came to us from Northern Ireland four years ago."


A farmer who used home-made bombs and shotguns to fight land eviction has been sentenced to five years in prison.

Doan Van Vuon, 53, his brother and two other relatives were found guilty of attempted murder for injuring several police officers in January 2012.
Their case had attracted attention, and popular support, as a farmer resorting to violence to protect land in Vietnam is rare.
Farmers receive rights for a limited time, as land belongs to the state.
His three relatives were sentenced to between two and five years in prison, while his wife and sister-in-law received light suspended sentences.
The judge, Pham Duc Tuyen, said that the family's actions had "[violated] the normal operations of the state agencies and [caused] bad impact on social order."
Before the presiding judge delivered the verdicts, Doan Van Vuon pleaded that he acted out of desperation and that he did not intend to kill anybody: "I was left with no option," he said.
Mr Vuon's defence lawyer told reporters after the trial that he was "not happy".
"I had expected a better verdict," he said.
The BBC's Nga Pham says that all the jail terms were more lenient than expected, leading some to speculate that the government is trying to avoid fuelling public discontent over its land policies.
The district government gave Mr Vuon the land to farm for 14 years before it said it wanted it back as part of a future infrastructure project. The remaining part was to be rented at a higher cost.
Mr Vuon protested against the decision, arguing that his family had spent years developing the land and had to pay back debts.
The government moved to evict him after negotiations failed and this resulted in a stand-off.
While land clearances happen frequently in Vietnam, they are rarely challenged.
Land rights are a contentious issue in Vietnam, where the Communist government owns all land and usage rights are unclear.
The Land Law, in effect since 1993, stipulates that households and individuals are entitled to land rights for a "limited period" of 20 years. After that, subject to availability and other factors, local governments will decide whether the land use can be extended.


A man wielding a banjo as a weapon launched an attack in a street in York, police said.

The assault took place outside the Explore Library in Museum Street at about 14:15 BST.
North Yorkshire Police said they did not know the condition of the victim, who is believed to be in his 20s.
However, a force spokesman said a man had been arrested on suspicion of assault.


At least 39 people have been killed in a shoot-out in the Mexican state of Michoacan.

Friday's gunfight between security forces and an armed gang took place in Tanhuato near the Jalisco state border.
The violence is thought to be drug related and local officials have said that police are among the dead.
The authorities have been fighting a bloody war with the area's most powerful drug cartel, Jalisco New Generation, for years.
It is not clear if the cartel is behind the attack and federal security officials are travelling to the area to investigate.
The town's mayor said a Federal Police convoy had come under fire when it arrived in the area on Friday morning, local radio reported.
Two years ago vigilante groups formed in Michoacan to drive out the Knights Templar drugs cartel. However, last week a former vigilante leader running for mayor in next month's elections was shot dead.
The Jalisco New Generation cartel has increased its presence in the area, with Michoacan and Jalisco becoming among Mexico's most violent states. Gang members are believed to have killed at least 20 police and soldiers since March.
In January, police claimed to have arrested one of the leaders of the the cartel.
Earlier this month several soldiers were killed when a army helicopter was shot down by the cartel.
A further 15 officers were killed in an ambush in April.


A woman who murdered her sick mother as she lay in her bed has been imprisoned for a minimum of 12 years.

Angela Douglas, 49, was handed a life sentence at Plymouth Crown Court.
Douglas, of Redhill Close, Plymouth, suffocated her 73-year-old mother Anne Matthews with a pillow, saying she wanted to end her pain. She had denied murder.
Mrs Matthews suffered a heart attack and multiple organ failure as a result and died in hospital.
During the trial the court heard how Mrs Matthews suffered from emphysema and chronic shortness of breath but, although very unwell, she was not dying at the time.
The jury was told Douglas had drunk more than two bottles of wine before she went upstairs to smother her mother in April last year.
She told detectives that on the day of the murder she spent a lot of time with her mother lying on her bed "holding her, stroking her face and kissing her".
Douglas said the illness was a cruel way to treat her mother who had been in an and out of hospital, the court was told.
When ambulance crews arrived at the victim's home, Douglas told them: "I don't want you to do anything. She has been through enough."
When she was arrested she told the police: "I love my mum. I could not stand to see her like that."
Mrs Matthews died the following day in Plymouth's Derriford Hospital.
The jury heard Douglas may have been suffering from an abnormality of mental function at the time which affected her self control and making rational judgements.
For the defence, a psychiatrist told the court Douglas found the situation "emotionally untenable" as she used more alcohol to try to cope with the stress.


Two men have been arrested after herbal cannabis thought to be worth more than £280,000, as well as a substantial amount of cash, were seized in Londonderry.

The drugs were found during a search of a car in the Trench Road area.
About £10,400 in cash was also seized during the search of a van on the Toombridge Bypass at Hillhall Road.
The searches took place on Thursday night. Both men, aged 25 and 40, are being questioned by police.
Det Insp Tom McClure said: "We remain committed to making Northern Ireland a hostile environment for those individuals and groups who are involved in major drugs crime.
"We will continue to work to identify them, disrupt their activities, arrest them and place them before the courts. We will also seek to ensure that they do not derive any material benefit from their illegal activities."


There has been a surge in Saturday morning shoppers travelling to Northern Ireland from the Republic since the EU referendum, road traffic data suggests.

Sterling has fallen sharply against the euro, meaning southern shoppers can get much better value in northern shops.
It shows that since the vote, south-to-north traffic flows from 10:00-11:00 on Saturday are up from 3% year-on-year before the vote to 29% year-on-year.
The border-crossing data was gathered by Ireland's National Roads Authority.
The largest increase in the opposite direction is 18:00-19:00 on a Sunday, which analysis from Goodbody Stockbrokers suggested possibly reflected a return from a weekend spent in Northern Ireland.
While the overall impact on consumer spending in the Republic would be relatively modest, "the economic impact on border counties could be significant", said Goodbody Chief Economist Dermot O'Leary.


When I started working with my coach Ivan Lendl the first time around, I definitely tried to play more aggressively, whether that meant hitting the ball harder or standing inside the baseline.

I would have been 24 at the time, so I was still fairly young, trying to improve and play more offensively in the bigger matches.
It didn't stop when Ivan left in 2014, though. I was still trying to play positive tennis when I started working with Amelie Mauresmo, but also to add new dimensions to my game.
It's all about picking the moments when you're going to go big or play with a little bit more variety.
I've had better results on clay over the last couple of years and that isn't because I was hitting the ball harder, it's because I was playing smarter and more intelligent tennis.
If my forehand speed dipped for a while, it might also have had something to do with returning after my back surgery in 2014.
I had lost a little bit of pace and power during that first six to nine months, and with that I lost a bit of confidence.
Obviously when I was working with Ivan the last time that wasn't the case. I was extremely confident because I was winning a lot, beating the best players and winning big competitions.
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Following a match like the one between Roger Federer and Marin Cilic on Wednesday can be hard and you kind of have to be ready the whole time.
For the first couple of sets I'll be up in the locker room and usually start seeing my physio halfway through the first set for 35 or 40 minutes.
When I'm finished with him, after two sets I'll head down to the gym. Then, as it starts to get towards the middle part of that set, I'll start warming up. That's the theory anyway.
Wednesday was quite a difficult one to judge. It looked like Cilic was going to win at 3-3, 0-40, in the third set but then suddenly I had to sit back down and start again.
By the fourth set we just didn't know because Cilic had a match point. And from then until when the tie-break finished can be 25 minutes - and you're going on five minutes after they shake hands.
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It's not just the fans, players get nervous watching matches in the locker room, too, because you can see the atmosphere and feel the tension of the big points, so sometimes you have to settle yourself down a bit.
I was aware heading out that Centre Court wasn't going to be full after such a long match but the crowd filled up fairly quickly, and it's kind of your job to bring the energy.
If I seemed pumped up against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, I wasn't especially trying to get the crowd going at the beginning of the match, it was more to get myself going.
There are enough nerves at the start of a Grand Slam quarter-final, especially if you've been waiting around and watching a match like Roger against Marin.
Regardless of whether there are a lot of people in there at the beginning of the match, crowds are not as engaged as they will be at the end of a set.
That's totally normal and it's up to you to try and make sure you get off to a good start.
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Playing with the kind of variety I talked about doesn't work against everyone, but against Tomas Berdych it has worked well over the last couple of years.
He hits a big ball and likes to dictate, so I need to make sure I keep him on the back foot as much as possible in Friday's semi-final.
We haven't played on grass before so I'll have a look at a couple of his matches over the last week and make a plan.
Having a rest day on Thursday will help me recover from playing five sets and I'll be ready to go on Friday, whether I play first or second.
Andy Murray was talking to BBC Sport's Piers Newbery.


Kate Bush has announced she is to play a series of concert dates in the UK later this year.

An announcement on her official website said she will play 15 shows at London's Hammersmith Apollo in August and September.
The title for the show is Before the Dawn and the first date will be 26 August.
The singer, whose hits include Wuthering Heights and Hounds of Love, last toured in 1979.
"I am delighted to announce that we will be performing some live shows this coming August and September," she said.
"I hope you will be able to join us and I look forward to seeing you there."
Tickets go on sale 09:30 GMT Friday, 28 March.
Bush's first ever tour in 1979 featured mime, magic and poetry alongside her music, but it reportedly took its toll on the singer, then just 20.
"By the end," she subsequently recalled, "I felt a terrific need to retreat as a person because I felt that my sexuality, which in a way I hadn't really had a chance to explore myself, was being given to the world in a way which I found impersonal."
The six-week tour, which travelled around Britain and mainland Europe, ended at the Hammersmith Odeon - now the Hammersmith Apollo - the venue she has chosen to return to for the new shows.
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I've interviewed her two or three times. I always asked whether she fancied playing live again and she always said, 'I never rule it out'.
But I didn't ever feel she had any intention of doing it. So I'm quite surprised that she's come back now. But very excited.
I know she would not do it unless she felt confident about doing it. Most of her back catalogue has never been performed live, so it will be fascinating to see which songs she chooses.
I'm sure there will be a degree of theatre and drama to it. I would expect it to have lots of great back projection and theatrical staging, but I would have thought the centrepiece would be her at the piano.
I do think this is pretty risk-free, because the love for her and the fascination is so great, and I'm sure she will do it in the right way.
Speaking to the BBC three years ago, Bush refused to rule out touring again, but said: "I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams."
"[They] didn't stop me," she told Radio 4's Front Row, "but I do think if I were to do any live work, I'd be completely petrified to start with."
Bush last released an album in 2011, the Brit-nominated 50 Words For Snow.
It was only her third album of new material in 18 years - and the singer admitted that her slow work rate was "extremely stressful".
"It's very frustrating the albums take as long as they do," she said. "I wish there weren't such big gaps between them."
Bush, whose other hits include Running Up That Hill and Babooshka, has won both Brit and Ivor Novello awards.
In 2013, the Queen honoured her with a CBE for services to music.


A bill to restrict foreign ownership in Russia's media will soon go before the parliament, which is dominated by MPs loyal to President Vladimir Putin.

If made law, the measure will put a 20% ceiling on any foreign stakes in Russian media, including those held indirectly through Russian partners.
Russia's main media outlets are state-owned or controlled by loyal oligarchs.
But top Putin ally Sergei Zheleznyak said Russia was facing "an information war unleashed against the country".
Russian TV news has accused the Ukrainian government of provoking clashes in eastern Ukraine through acts of aggression, including indiscriminate shelling of civilians.
The Kiev government blames pro-Russian separatists for the violence, and says Russia has fomented it by supplying soldiers and heavy weapons to the rebels.
The media bill is to go before Duma (lower house) deputies on 23 September, Itar-Tass news agency reports.
The restrictions would apply to magazines and internet publications as well as newspapers and broadcast media.
The bill is highly likely to become law as it was proposed by MPs who usually support the pro-Kremlin group United Russia.
BBC Monitoring reports that foreigners directly own stakes in some Russian mainstream media:


Welsh Tory leader Andrew RT Davies has said he wants to use new income tax powers to take 5p off the higher rate and 1p off the basic rate in Wales.

He said cutting the higher rate from 40% to 35% to attract entrepreneurs would cost £75m a year, saving those earning £50,000 about £400.
Cutting the basic rate to 19% would cost £180m a year, and save someone earning £25,000 around £70 a year.
Welsh Labour said tax cuts would not boost business by themselves.
On Wednesday, Chancellor George Osborne said control of some of the income tax levied in Wales can now be devolved without a referendum.
The sharing of tax powers between ministers in Cardiff and London would mean the Welsh government controlling £3bn of taxes a year by 2020.
But Mr Davies told BBC Wales Welsh Labour ministers would be "frightened" of power over income tax as they "wouldn't know what to do with it".
First Minister Carwyn Jones has said the devolution of some power over income tax was right "in principle" but his government needed more details on the plans and timescale involved.
Mr Davies said the new income tax powers were an "historic change" that would ensure the Welsh government was "finally accountable to the people it serves".
"Not only do I want to see a change to the higher rate of tax - to stimulate job creation and boost economic growth in Wales - it's also crucial to look at changing the basic rate, guaranteeing additional money for even more workers," he said.
"It's time to utilise the powers that can make a real difference to Welsh families and Welsh businesses and - while Labour sweeps these possibilities under the carpet - we are already working hard to ensure lower tax and higher take-home pay."
Responding for Labour, Torfaen AM Lynne Neagle dismissed the thinking behind cutting the higher rate of income tax.
"On its own this proposal will do nothing to help entrepreneurs in Wales looking to start a new business," she said.
"If the Tories were serious about helping start-ups then rather than cutting income tax for Wales' highest earners they would join our calls on David Cameron and George Osborne to honour their promises on infrastructure investment and electrification."
Plaid Cymru finance spokesman Alun Ffred Jones said his party's tax plans "would depend on when income tax is expected to be partially devolved".
But he added: "Plaid Cymru looks forward to a new era for Welsh politics where a combination of different tax levers can be used innovatively, and we are encouraged that finally the government has yielded to Plaid Cymru demands."
In 2013, Welsh Liberal Democrat leader Kirsty Williams said she wanted to lower the basic rate of tax from 20p to 18p, if Wales gained tax varying powers.
The Conservatives have come out of the blocks first saying that not only would they like to take five pence off the higher rate, but a penny off the basic rate as well.
And when it comes to the inevitable question of where they would find £200m to cover the lost revenue, they point to policies such as abolishing free prescriptions and tuition fees.
Whatever the merits of these policies, the point is that it changes the dynamic of assembly politics in that for the first time a party can go into an assembly election with a pledge to put money in people's pockets.
In the meantime there is still deep suspicion among Labour ranks.
The Pontypridd MP and shadow work and pensions secretary Owen Smith is keen to remind everyone of the brutal reality of public spending in Wales: the tax take is £16bn while public spending is £32bn, in other words it is dangerous for Wales to separate itself from the other wealthier parts of the UK when it comes to major sources of revenue like income tax.
Officially the Welsh government is saying it has no problem in principle but it wants to see more details of the guarantees from Westminster to protect spending.
Labour at the assembly has always been lukewarm to the idea of devolving income tax as they cannot see in what circumstances the powers would be used, put the rate up and high earners may leave while a reduction would leave the Welsh government coffers short.
The Conservatives say a degree of accountability will mean AMs have a stake in the growth of the economy and as a result lead to better policies.
On Wednesday, Mr Osborne also promised spending per head on devolved services in Wales would not fall below 115% of spending per head in England.
Welsh ministers said their budget would fall in real terms and they needed more details on that minimum funding pledge.


Tributes were paid to former Derry City captain Ryan McBride as the team played its first game since his death.

The 27-year-old defender was found dead at his home in Derry on 19 March.
During the pre-match warm-up in Buncrana on Friday night, Derry's players wore white tee-shirts bearing their late captain's surname and his regular squad number five.
The club's youth players formed the number five on the pitch as the teams came out at Maginn Park.
With members of the McBride family in attendance, a minute's applause took place before the kick-off.
Ryan's sister CaitlÃn said it was a great source of comfort for the family.
"I think the family's just overwhelmed by how well everybody's turned out to remember Ryan and we just want to thank the people of Derry and especially Derry City," she said.
"It's been great, it's just been so much comfort, reading so many good things about him and the great things people have said about him, it's just been amazing."
Derry City director Denis Bradley said it had been a difficult time for the club.
"This tribute tonight I think is just a recognition and some kind of expression of the warmth in which this young player was held," he said.
"The captain, but just a local lad too who gave it all for the club and I think the local supporters have just come out in a very strong tribute saying 'death's very final, but the memory goes on and I think will go for a long time'."
Former Derry City striker Liam Coyle added: "He was starting to mature as a player, you could see the captaincy was bringing out the best in him and he was hitting his peak.
"I think Ryan was turning into the best centre half in Ireland and it's just unfortunate we didn't get to see the best of him."
Derry City lost the game 3-2 to Bray Wanderers.


Scots Paralympian David Smith has told his supporters he has read every word of their messages wishing him the best ahead of surgery on a tumour.

The 37-year-old, from Aviemore, has already recovered from three rounds of surgery on it.
Smith, who won a rowing gold at the London Paralympics, had hoped to be part of the Great Britain Para-cycling team at the Rio Games this summer.
The need to have another lifesaving operation ended that dream.
In a message uploaded to the internet, Smith said: "Surgery is now here. Like any race in life I feel best prepared but also pretty scared."
He added: "It's going to be tough but I'm positive. I've read every message and that's given me so much strength."
Last month, Smith told BBC Radio Scotland's The Stephen Jardine Programme he had a love-hate relationship with the tumour.
While it caused him almost constant agonising pain, it has also led him to become a role model to others coping with health difficulties.
The paralympian also told the programme how sport had given him the mental and physical strength to deal with the tumour.
He said he had already prepared a timeline setting how, and by when, he plans to be able to cycle again.


Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes has revealed forward Niall McGinn is likely to leave Pittodrie this summer.

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The Northern Ireland international, 29, is in the final few months of his contract, having first joined the Dons in 2012.
"His agent has indicated that there may be (English) Championship interest in Niall, which I am not too surprised about," said McInnes.
"And it's difficult for us to compete with Championship clubs."
With Aberdeen aiming to finish second in the Premiership and a Scottish Cup semi-final to look forward to, McInnes is hoping McGinn can end his Dons career with a flourish.
"He's still got plenty to offer," he said.
"I don't want to talk in the past tense; we're looking forward to the remainder of the season. He's been a real key player for us over the years.
"The financial gains often come into it, with players of a certain age.
"Niall has been very respectful. He accepts that our offer was a very good one and he's thought long and hard about it.
"We pushed for answer and, unfortunately, it looks like his destination will be the Championship."
McGinn first joined Aberdeen during Craig Brown's spell as manager, having been at Celtic for three years during which time he had a loan spell at Brentford.
He was part of the Dons team that won the Scottish League Cup in 2014 and he won the Scottish Cup with Celtic three years earlier.
Capable of playing in wide and central positions, McGinn has made over 200 appearances for Aberdeen, scoring 67 goals.
He has also won 50 international caps and has three goals for his country, including one against Ukraine at Euro 2016.


Gordon Strachan says Scotland can learn from their recent friendly matches, despite being outplayed by France in a 3-0 defeat on Saturday.

The Euro 2016 hosts eased to their win in Metz, with Olivier Giroud scoring twice before Laurent Koscielny's third.
"We have chosen to play some of the best teams in the world in the last four games to find out what we can do," Scotland manager Strachan said.
"Sometimes you have to take a hard lesson, which we have."
After wins against the Czech Republic and Denmark in friendlies in March, the Scots failed to shine against Italy in a 1-0 defeat in Malta last week before they were dismissed by Didier Deschamps's side.
With Scotland having failed to qualify for Euros this summer, Strachan will now prepare for their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier against Malta in September, a match which he believes will be all the better after his side's French experience.
"We have had four friendly games, we had to experiment, we have experimented and we take a lot of information from that, which is great, and we will debrief and see what is the best way to go forward," he said.
"I do believe after the performances in the qualifiers, we do know that we are better than some teams in it and definitely as good as some teams that are in it.
"We know from the last Euro qualifiers that we can play football and score goals and play attractive football.
"We will now try and improve with the information we have got."
Strachan praised the French side, saying: "If there is a better team than them then we are in for a fantastic Euros."
The former Scotland midfielder noted how well his players did, adding: "I'm not as tired as the players, that's for sure.
"Those guys kept plugging away, it would have been easy to fold.
"It is easier for us to sit and think we could have done this, we could have done that, but when you are out there playing against a world-class side, it is harder for them than it is for us to watch it.
"For us to get anything and make any sort of progress in the game we have to be at our best and at times that didn't happen."


Royal Bank of Scotland has reached a deal with three of the five shareholder groups who allege they were misled over the bank's £12bn fund raising in 2008.

RBS said it had reached a "full and final settlement" with the three, and would now seek to agree terms with the two remaining groups.
Investors argued they were misled over RBS's health, and so bought shares just months before it was bailed out.
RBS has set aside a total of £800m to settle all the claims.
RBS - which is still 73%-owned by the government following its 2008 bailout - said the three shareholder groups it had settled with represented 77% of the total claims by value.
It added it would now seek to agree final terms with the remaining shareholder groups, but said that "any claims for which settlement is not achieved will... continue to be vigorously defended".
RBS chief executive Ross McEwan said: "We have been very clear that we wanted to deal with as many of our legacy litigation issues as possible during 2015 and 2016.
"We are pleased to have reached this agreement and hope that it will be accepted by the remaining claimant groups so that this long course of complex and costly litigation can now be concluded."
Since its bailout by the government in 2008, RBS has continued to struggle. It reported a loss of £1.98bn for 2015, its eighth consecutive year of annual losses.
Last week, stress tests run by the Bank of England found that RBS was the worst prepared of the UK's biggest lenders to cope with another financial crisis.
The results forced RBS to devise plans to bolster its balance sheet by £2bn through cost cuts and shedding assets.


A US start-up has turned to nature to help bring water to arid areas by drawing moisture from the air.

NBD Nano aims to mimic the way a beetle survives in an African desert to create a self-filling water bottle capable of storing up to three litres every hour.
The insect harvests moisture from the air by first getting it to condense on its back and then storing the water.
Using nature as an inspiration for technology, known as biomimicry, is increasingly widespread.
NBD Nano, which consists of four recent university graduates and was formed in May, looked at the Namib Desert beetle that lives in a region that gets about half an inch of rainfall per year.
Using a similar approach, the firm wants to cover the surface of a bottle with hydrophilic (water-attracting) and hydrophobic (water-repellent) materials.
The work is still in its early stages, but it is the latest example of researchers looking at nature to find inspiration for sustainable technology.
"It was important to apply [biomimicry] to our design and we have developed a proof of concept and [are] currently creating our first fully-functional prototype," Miguel Galvez, a co-founder, told the BBC.
"We think our initial prototype will collect anywhere from half a litre of water to three litres per hour, depending on local environments."
The founders want to use a fan to get the surrounding air to pass over the surface of the bottle. The air would then condense and get stored inside the device.
"Dry places like the Atacama Desert or Gobi Desert don't have access to a lot of sources of water," said Mr Galvez.
"So if we're creating [several] litres per day in a cost-effective manner, you can get this to a community of people in Sub-Saharan Africa and other dry regions of the world. And if you can do it cheaply enough, then you can really create an impact on the local environment."
About three billion people on Earth - almost one in two - live in water-scarce conditions, with demand growing drastically, while supply remains constant, according to the World Health Organization.
In some countries, condensation devices on rooftops already harvest water from the air - but these technologies consume large amounts of energy to produce small amounts of water.
NBD Nano's prototype seems to be more energy-efficient, but it still would not be able to satisfy the needs of an entire community, Erik Harvey from WaterAid charity told the BBC.
"Even in water-scarce areas, communities need more water than what they would consume for themselves - livestock and agriculture in arid environments are very important," he said.
But it does not mean the start-up is wasting time developing a water bottle, he said.
"There is a range of viable markets for them, like the military or the outdoors market, people going camping, and the advantage that they may have is a much lower energy input device," said Mr Harvey.
A number of companies have recently been researching nature-inspired solutions to real-life problems.
Electronics firm Qualcomm studied light reflection on butterfly wings to design its Mirasol e-reader display.
And Canadian company Whalepower mimics humpback whale flippers in its wind turbines and fans to reduce drag.
San Diego Zoo in California recently opened a Centre for Bioinspiration.
And there is a Biomimicry Institute in Montana, US, where consultants work with companies, helping them to apply nature-inspired solutions to particular problems.


As the seconds ticked away to my last live broadcast before polling day, Ed Miliband's big red battle bus was due to arrive at a rally right behind me in central Leeds.

But the bus was late and missed my broadcast by a couple of minutes.
For both the Labour leader and me it was an indication of bigger disappointments ahead over the next two days.
In my broadcast, I confidently forecast - based on the opinion polls - the highly important "swing seats" across West Yorkshire would all go Labour's way.
A few minutes later, Ed Miliband was introduced to the 500 cheering party members waiting in the auditorium of the Leeds City Museum as "the country's next Prime Minister".
We both got it wrong.
Miliband's Kinnock Moment
I suppose history should have given us a hint of what could happen.
The last time a Labour leader had chosen Yorkshire for his final rally on the eve of an election was in 1992.
The pollster's favourite on that occasion was also greeted by a packed house of placard-waving supporters.
But a couple of days later it was John Major who returned to Number 10 and Neil Kinnock was composing his letter of resignation.
In a sense there was plenty of evidence that Labour's confidence was not as solidly based as the party, the polls and the media thought it was.
At every one of the umpteen rallies, speeches and "public question and answer" events delivered by Ed Miliband in West Yorkshire, "key marginals" like Pudsey, had an audience was stuffed with supporters.
Even the welcome outside the front door of every venue was carefully choreographed and the banners and placards handed out in the minutes before the big red bus drew up.
Bus request stop
On one occasion it even drew up twice.
It stopped first to drop off the camera crews travelling with the Miliband entourage.
It then drove round the corner and back again to ensure they got the pictures of him stepping off to be warmly greeted by the local candidate.
In fact, there appeared to be only one event in Yorkshire that was not carefully organised by the Labour party.
At the BBC's live Question Time event at Leeds Town Hall, both Ed Miliband and David Cameron came face-to-face with ordinary members of the public.
It was not the smoothest of receptions.
Campaign Achilles' heel
The Leeds audience was a cross-section of voters, selected by an independent marketing company and it was clear they had burning questions for all the politicians.
It was Ed Miliband that had the toughest corner to defend and it exposed the Achilles' heel of his campaign.
Would he accept the previous Labour government had overspent?
His less than convincing argument probably pushed more "don't knows" into the Conservative camp and it probably cost Ed Balls his seat in Morley and Outwood.
It was also an indicator that Labour's slick campaign and cheering crowds were masking the fragility of Labour's position - a fact I had not spotted before my final live broadcast for Look North.
Well, maybe I will get it right on my final broadcast before the poll on Thursday 7 May, 2020.


More than 11,000 people have been killed or maimed by landmines in Colombia over the past 25 years.

Only Afghanistan has higher numbers of landmine victims, Colombian government figures suggest.
Many of the mines have been planted by Colombia's largest guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc), during the 50-year armed conflict with the government.
As part of peace negotiations currently under way in Cuba, the Farc recently agreed to work with the Colombian security forces to clear the mines.
The guerrilla group says it will identify the locations of mines they planted so that specialised army unit, of which there are 2,100, can remove them.
It is a highly dangerous and complicated task, explains Sgt Martinez Beltran, who has worked in mine clearance for 17 years.
"Your first mistake when dealing with explosives is also your last one," he says.
The unit of four soldiers he commands can spend a whole day removing just one mine - or up to 12 on good day.
They first try to spot trip wires and other possible triggers.
One soldier then repeatedly throws into the minefield a heavy weight made from special explosive-resistant material. The weight is attached to a 70m-long (230ft) rope and as he pulls it back, it detonates any mine it comes across.
A specially trained dog and its handler then go into the field to identify explosive substances that cannot be found with a metal detector.
"There's no risk for the dog because we check for trip wires beforehand," Sgt Alvaro Martinez Beltran explains.
Two soldiers then check the terrain with a metal detector. Any unexploded devices are then detonated by the sergeant.
The soldiers are well trained and highly skilled, but locating a minefield in Colombia's varied terrain, which ranges from dense jungle to high mountains is no easy task.
This is where the contribution of the Farc will be key, believes Lt Col David Navia, who commands 120 soldiers that work in mine clearance.
In 2014 his team deactivated 28 minefields, with some 220 explosive devices in them.
"If (the Farc) provide us with the exact location of the mines this whole process will be much faster," he says.
But the new plan is not without its problems.
Many of the Farc explosive experts who knew where the mines had been placed have been killed in combat.
To complicate matters further, many mines have been shifted by heavy rains and will no longer be where they were originally laid.
Oscar Naranjo thinks the country could be cleared of mines within 10 years.
Gen Naranjo is the former chief of the Colombian police and was named Post-conflict Minister last year, in charge of advising the government on the disarmament and demobilisation of the rebels.
But others think he is being too optimistic and it could take up to five decades before Colombia can be declared mine-free.
They point to Nicaragua, a country which is much smaller than Colombia, and which took two decades to clear its territory of mines.
Even if every device planted by the Farc can be found and removed, those laid by Colombia's second-largest guerrilla group will still remain.
The National Liberation Army continues to fight the government and is unlikely to reveal the location of its mines in the near future.
And it is not just the guerrilla groups which have planted explosive devices. It is also a strategy used by the country's many criminal groups to protect their territory.
Clearing the country of mines will also be costly.
According to the director of the NGO Colombian Campaign to Ban Landmines, Alvaro Jimenez Millan, it will cost "many millions of dollars".
Nevertheless Mr Jimenez is still optimistic.
"This agreement is the first one coming out of the [Havana negotiation] table that will mean a real change in the lives of people living in the [highly mined] territories," he says.


Kilmarnock have signed defender Miles Addison and winger Alex Henshall to assist their efforts to retain their Scottish Premiership status.

The former England youth internationals have both previously worked under manager Lee Clark at Blackpool.
They have have signed for the Ayrshire club, who currently sit second bottom of the table, until the summer.
Both were free agents, with Henshall, 22, last with Ipswich Town, and Addison, 27, with Peterborough United.
Addison, who can play in defence or midfield, spent six years with Derby County before three years with Bournemouth.
He also has turned out for Barnsley, Rotherham United, Scunthorpe United and Blackpool on loan.
Having joined Peterborough in November, Addison scored on his debut against Barnsley, but he made only two more appearances for the League One outfit, his last being on 2 January against Sheffield United.
Henshall joined Manchester City in 2010 after starting his career at Swindon Town as a youth,
During his four-year spell with City, he went out on loan to Chesterfield, Bristol Rovers and Ipswich Town before joining the Portman Road club on a permanent deal in 2010.
However, he made only five appearances for the Tractor Boys and last played a first-team game in January 2015, when he suffered a knee injury that cut short a loan spell with Blackpool.


Author Anne Bronte, the sister of Charlotte and Emily, has been given a new gravestone after 164 years to correct an error on the original.

Anne, who wrote Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, died in Scarborough in 1849 after succumbing to tuberculosis at the age of 29.
But her headstone in St Mary's Churchyard gave her age as 28.
A new plaque on her grave has been officially unveiled during a service of dedication.
Anne is the only member of the famous literary family who is not buried at their home in Haworth, West Yorkshire.
She travelled to Scarborough because she loved the resort and hoped that the air may improve her condition. But she died just three days after arriving.
Her death came during a bleak period for the Bronte family. Brother Branwell had died eight months earlier, followed by Emily, who had written Wuthering Heights.
Anne's original gravestone was refaced three years after her death, when Charlotte returned to discover five errors on it. The other mistakes were corrected but the age was not.
The Bronte Society has installed the new plaque alongside the original, which has deteriorated over the years.
"Anne was the quietest Bronte and can still sometimes be overlooked in favour of her sisters Charlotte and Emily," said the society's Sally McDonald.
"In some ways, though, she is now viewed as the most radical of the sisters, writing about tough subjects such as women's need to maintain independence, and how alcoholism can tear a family apart.
"It is a pleasure to honour her in this modest way... in the coastal town she loved so much."
Often left alone together in their isolated Haworth home, Charlotte, Emily and Anne began to write stories at an early age
Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights are now hailed as British classics, while The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was a huge bestseller.
Charlotte continued to write after her siblings' deaths and later married, only to die herself in March 1855.


Iggy Azalea has admitted to having a secret boob job four months ago.

The Australian-born rapper opened up about her surgery in an interview with Vogue magazine.
When asked what she would change about her body, she said: "I did change something: Four months ago, I got bigger boobs. I'd thought about it my entire life."
The singer was reportedly fed up of having to use extra padding in her stage costumes.
The 24-year-old, who is dating basketball star Nick Young, also said she wanted to wear underwear without underwire.
Azalea said she didn't want to initially reveal her surgery because she was concerned about her fans and didn't want to make them body conscious.
"But then, I decided I wasn't into secret-keeping," she explained.
In the interview, the rapper explains how she was often told to get into modelling when she moved to the US.
"When I first got to the States, people told me I should think about modelling," she said.
"So I went to a few agencies, but once they measured my body. They didn't like me any more."
Azalea also revealed she measured a size zero on her top and a six on her bottom, which she says gave the fashion industry a headache.
The rapper also talked about the craziest rumour she'd heard about herself.
"[It was] that I used to be a man named Corey who had a sex change," she said.
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Prince Charles has become a patron of the year-long festival planned to mark centenary in 2014 of the birth of the poet Dylan Thomas.

The prince visited the Swansea house, 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, where Thomas was born and brought up.
The festival, Dylan Thomas 100, aims to highlight the artistic, cultural and commercial importance of Thomas's work.
The director of the film version of his play Under Milk Wood this week gifted its rights to the people of Wales.
Preparations for the centenary of the poet's birth are led by Dylan Thomas 100, a Â£750,000 programme of events across Wales and beyond.
They include a Wales-wide theatre production tour of A Child's Christmas in Wales, new productions of works including Under Milk Wood and a series of activities centred around the boathouse in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, where Thomas worked in his final years.
Thomas was born on 27 October 1914 at the family home in Cwmdonkin Drive.
During his visit on Friday, Prince Charles toured the house which has been restored to how it would have looked when the poet lived there with his parents.
The prince was shown the front bedroom where Thomas was born a few months after his family had bought the home.
He admired the authentic Edwardian-era beds as he was taken round by Mrs Haden and asked how she had found them.
"Actually, you have cost me money," she told the prince.
He was told the house renovation took place several years ago at a time when Prince Charles was renovating his farmhouse Llwynywermod near Llandovery.
At the time of buying it, he made a point of using local craftspeople for work and buying authentic period furniture wherever possible.
"You were doing Llwynywermod at the same time we were doing this," Mrs Haden said.
"Ah, competition. I am so sorry," Charles replied.
"I don't hold it against you," she said.
During the tour, the poet's granddaughter Hannah Ellis Thomas joined the prince and the Hadens for tea.
He left the house saying he may ready some Welsh poetry to his unborn grandchild.
Thomas died on  9 November 1953 in New York during his fourth trip to America. He is buried at the village churchyard in Laugharne.
This week the British Council said it aimed to bring the Swansea poet's work to international audiences over the next two years.
The project will be called Starless and Bible Black, after a line from Under Milk Wood.
On Thursday, Andrew Sinclair, who directed the 1972 film Under Milk Wood, starring Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, gave the rights to the film to a new trust.
It is hoped the royalties will fund cultural and artistic projects and films made in Wales, including new interpretations of Thomas's work.


Plans for 900 new homes in Northallerton are to go on display.

The scheme, proposed for a site between Darlington Road and Stokesley Road, also includes a new link road and bridge over the Northallerton to Middlesbrough railway line.
A new primary school, playing fields and allotments have also been assigned part of the development.
Hambleton District Council hopes a planning application will be submitted by the end of May.
The council said it had been working with three developers to "see Northallerton expand over the next 15 years".
The proposals are being exhibited to the public at the Golden Lion Hotel between 14:00 and 21:00 BST before a formal planning application is submitted.


A state department inquiry has accused Hillary Clinton and other former US secretaries of state of poorly managing email security.

Mrs Clinton failed to comply with rules on record-keeping, the inspector general found, and used private email for official business without approval.
But there are "longstanding, systemic weaknesses" in record-keeping that pre-dated her tenure, it said.
Mrs Clinton said the report showed she was no different from her predecessors.
"Contrary to the false theories advanced for some time now, the report notes that her use of personal email was known to officials within the department during her tenure," said a statement from the campaign.
It added that there was no evidence of any successful breach of her server.
The FBI is also investigating whether there was a security breach and but has not yet interviewed her.
She has denied handling any classified information in her private emails.
The Clinton email story has been at a steady drip for over a year now, as new revelations are unearthed and her electronic correspondence is released. This critical State Department report is bigger than that - more akin to a deluge of bad news for the candidate.
It will have a political toll, but it may be the first step in her putting the issue behind her. It comes when she is least politically vulnerable, near the end of a primary campaign she comfortably leads and before July's political conventions.
Mrs Clinton's critics will point to the findings that she did not get permission from the State Department to set up her email server, her recordkeeping was inadequate, the information she disclosed was incomplete, and she and her aides were not always co-operative in the investigation.
The Clinton campaign, on the other hand, has been quick to point out that the actions of previous secretaries of state were also highlighted in the report - although the inspector general noted that the guidelines were more detailed by the time Mrs Clinton took office. She was was also not directly told by the State Department to stop using her system.
With this report now public, the last remaining key piece of the story is also the potentially most damaging - the FBI's investigation into whether her handling of classified information constituted criminal conduct.
Although early indications are that it did not, an adverse ruling there would amount to a flood that could sweep away her presidential hopes.
The likely Democratic presidential nominee's use of private email has been a talking point in the election, with critics saying Mrs Clinton believes she is above the law.
Mrs Clinton's campaign says it showed that her practices were consistent with those of other secretaries of state who "also used personal email" and she was "not unique" in doing it.
State Department spokesman Mark Toner said that the report makes clear that the agency could have done a better job preserving emails and records, going back several administrations.


Prof Peter Millican of Hertford College, University of Oxford, helped unmask JK Rowling as debut crime writer Robert Galbraith.

An expert in computer linguistics, the professor developed software to analyse and compare texts.
He analysed The Cuckoo's Calling against Rowling's other novels, The Casual Vacancy and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
He spoke to BBC News about how he arrived at his conclusions.
"I was given some text by The Sunday Times - I had two known texts by JK Rowling, two by Ruth Rendell, two by PD James and two by Val McDermid.
"What I did was clean up the texts, put them into my software and do a battery of tests to see what similarities there were.
"I was testing things like word length, sentence length, paragraph length, frequency of particular words and the pattern of punctuation," he explained.
"What was striking about the tests was how often The Cuckoo's Calling came closest to the texts by JK Rowling and it was closer to those than to any other crime novels.
"In the vast majority of these tests I found that the new book came closer to A Casual Vacancy and/or Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows than it came to the other six books by the other three authors.
"The analysis corroborated quite strongly the hypothesis that had been put to me that she had written [The Cuckoo's Calling].
"Given that there was some independent evidence - apparently - that it was written by a woman, I was comparing it with texts by three other women and certainly, of those four, I had no doubt that JK Rowling was far and away the most likely [author].
"The great virtue of the tests that I was using is that they were based on very generic qualities of the texts, like length of sentences or frequencies of very common words like 'the' or 'to', or 'in', not very distinctive words, and those sorts of patterns tend to be absolutely unconscious to the author and often quite consistent between their texts.
"The conclusion was that on a lot of these tests - surprisingly many - The Cuckoo's Calling came out much closer to the JK Rowling text than to the others.
"Normally with these tests I would try to test novels against each other from the same genre and I found it quite significant that in this case, we had a crime novel which proved to be more similar to JK Rowling's non-crime novels than it was to other authors' crime novels, and I think that does give great significance to the tests."


At least 17 police officers have been abducted by Taliban militants in Afghanistan's northern Badakhshan province, officials say.

Four officers died when militants attacked the government compound in Wardoj district, police say.
Police say they have despatched units to try to free their colleagues.
The attack comes as Nato-led troops steadily withdraw from Afghanistan. On Sunday, Britain marked the end of combat operations there.
Provincial police spokesman Lal Mohammad Ahmadzai told the BBC that heavy casualties had been inflicted on the Taliban during fighting at the compound.
The attack comes just one day after Nato-led troops reduced their forces as part of a staged withdrawal from Afghanistan.
On Sunday the last US Marines unit and UK combat troops officially ended their Afghan operations, handing over security responsibility to local forces.


The European Union (EU) has appealed against a recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ruling in favour of the US over its state aid for Boeing.

Earlier this month a WTO dispute panel found the US had dealt with all but one of the instances of illegal subsidies to the aerospace giant.
But Airbus maintains the US continues to offer unfair support.
The fight is part of a 13-year dispute between the EU and the US over support offered to Boeing and Europe's Airbus.
In 2012, the WTO found that state and federal programmes provided Boeing with billions of dollars in illegal subsidies.
On 9 June the WTO's dispute panel found most of those issues had been addressed.
However, generous tax benefits offered by the state of Washington, where Boeing has a large presence and which are worth an estimated $800m to date, continue.
Both sides claimed the panel's June findings as a victory.
The WTO has also found that Europe provided billions in illegal subsidies to Airbus.


Syria's hopes of reaching their first World Cup were kept alive with a late draw against China on Tuesday.

Ahmad Al Salih curled home a free-kick in injury time to make it 2-2.
Syria are fourth in their group, three points behind Uzbekistan with two games left to play. Iran have won the group.
The top two teams in the group qualify automatically for next year's World Cup in Russia. The third-placed team would have to win two play-off ties to advance.
World Cup 2022 hosts Qatar shocked South Korea with a 3-2 victory to remain in the hunt for third spot, but China's quest to reach a second World Cup is all but over.
Marcello Lippi's China, who were within reach of only their second win in Group A, are now bottom and need to make up six points to snatch third place.
Qatar, who beat World Cup finals regulars South Korea in Doha, took their tally to seven points and also have an outside chance of finishing third in their group.
Iran booked their place in the finals on Monday night thanks to a 2-0 win over Uzbekistan in Tehran.


Colin Munro hit the second-fastest Twenty20 international half-century, off only 14 balls, as New Zealand beat Sri Lanka in their final tour match.

Munro's 50 not out, which included seven sixes, came in two more balls than Yuvraj Singh took against England in the World Twenty20 in 2007.
Team-mate Martin Guptill had set a new Black Caps record earlier in the match with a 19-ball 50 on his way to 63.
Sri Lanka, who posted 142-8 in their innings, lost by nine wickets.
"Guppy's had a very good record this summer and to beat that record was very pleasing," said Munro, who set a new record for the number of sixes in a first-class innings with 23 in a score of 281 for Auckland in March.
Angelo Mathews' career-best 81 not out was the one highlight for the tourists, who depart having lost both Tests, a one-day series 3-1 and the Twenty20 series 2-0.


The Duchess of Cambridge has moved from a comparatively ordinary existence to a prominent role in the Royal Family.

She became Prince William's girlfriend in 2001, the couple having met while studying at St Andrews University, Fife, where they shared student digs.
Their wedding at Westminster Abbey some 10 years later, in April 2011, was watched on television by millions of people around the world.
The announcement in December 2012 that the couple were expecting their first child - and the subsequent arrival of Prince George, and then his sister Princess Charlotte - thrust the duchess into the media spotlight like never before.
Catherine Middleton was born on 9 January 1982.
She grew up in Bucklebury, Berkshire, where her parents, Michael and Carole Middleton, run a mail-order business selling toys and games for children's parties from a converted barn close to their home.
The eldest of three children, she was educated at the exclusive Marlborough College in Wiltshire, where she was described as level-headed, popular and talented, and captained the school hockey team.
Her younger sister Pippa has raised her profile since she was maid of honour at the royal wedding. She has written a party-planning book and also writes for magazines.
Her brother James has founded a number of companies, including one that makes personalised marshmallows.
After they met at St Andrews, where Catherine studied art history, the young couple's relationship apparently flourished during weekends together on the Queen's Balmoral estate.
For a while, at least, they were guaranteed some privacy, following an agreement worked out between the palace and press while Prince William was a student.
But the media silence did not last, and Catherine was first brought to the public's attention after several tabloids pictured her beside Prince William and Prince Charles at the Swiss ski resort of Klosters in 2005.
The photographs appeared despite efforts by aides to keep the holiday private.
Newspaper interest grew when Catherine graduated, moved to London and started work as an accessory buyer for High Street clothes shop Jigsaw.
In October 2005, after the publication of a photo which showed her looking out of a window on a London bus, her lawyers wrote to newspaper and magazine editors asking them to respect her privacy.
They claimed photographers had followed Catherine almost every day and night since she left university.
Speculation over an engagement was sparked in February 2006, when it was suggested she would receive her own royal security.
In December 2006, Catherine was again in the headlines after she and her mother attended a ceremony at Sandhurst Royal Military Academy, to watch Prince William being commissioned as an army officer.
The occasion was notable as the first time she had been seen at a high-profile public event attended by the Queen and other senior royals.
Rumours of an engagement reached a peak around the time of Catherine's 25th birthday in January 2007, when the media scrum took up residence outside her Chelsea home.
The paparazzi free-for-all drew inevitable comparisons with the prince's late mother, killed in a car crash in Paris while being pursued by photographers.
Prince William and Prince Charles appealed for her to be left alone, and some newspapers agreed to stop using paparazzi shots of her.
Media pressure appeared to take its toll and was blamed when the couple split in April 2007, although no official statement was issued by either.
Reports of a reconciliation were denied in June 2007, with the couple insisting they were "just good friends" after being spotted together at the Concert for Diana at Wembley.
They were then seen in public on a number of occasions.
Catherine was present when the prince received his RAF wings from his father at RAF Cranwell in April 2008, and in Windsor when he became a Knight of the Garter in June.
The couple announced their engagement in November 2010, and at the time Catherine said joining the Royal Family was a "daunting prospect".
"Hopefully I'll take it in my stride," she added.
The duchess supports a number of charitable organisations through her own charity, the Royal Foundation of The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and Prince Harry.
She is also patron of Action on Addiction, East Anglia's Children's Hospices, the Art Room, National Portrait Gallery, Place2Be, SportsAid, The 1851 Trust, 100 Women in Hedge Funds, and the Natural History Museum.
In December 2012, St James's Palace announced that the Duchess of Cambridge was expecting a baby, and that Catherine had been admitted to hospital with acute morning sickness.
She stayed in hospital for several days before being discharged, but her stay was marred by the suicide of nurse Jacintha Saldanha after two Australian DJs made a hoax call to the hospital.
Baby Prince George was born on 22 July 2013 at 16:24 BST, weighing 8lbs 6oz, in the private Lindo Wing of St Mary's Hospital in Paddington, west London - where Princess Diana gave birth to her sons.
The couple spent the first few years of married life on Anglesey, north Wales, where the Duke of Cambridge worked as a search and rescue pilot with RAF Valley.
But, following the announcement that the duke was leaving the military, the couple left the island to set up home in a refurbished apartment in Kensington Palace, London.
They also have a home on the Queen's Sandringham Estate - Anmer Hall.
Prince William now works as an air ambulance pilot, flying with the East Anglian Air Ambulance, a job he started in July 2015.
The duchess's second pregnancy was announced in September 2014, with the duchess again suffering from hyperemesis gravidarum.
Princess Charlotte Elizabeth Diana was born at the Lindo Wing on 2 May 2015 at 08:34 BST, weighing 8lb 3oz.
She has rarely been seen in public, although photographs have been released sporadically, including one in which she is sat on her great-grandmother's knee to mark the Queen's 90th birthday.
While George was already a royal tour veteran by the time of his first birthday, having accompanied his parents to Australia and New Zealand in April 2014, his sister is yet to take part in an overseas visit.
The duke and duchess's most recent official overseas tour was a seven-day trip to India and Bhutan in April 2016.
As part of the visit, they were photographed on the bench at the Taj Mahal where Diana, Princess of Wales, had been pictured 24 years previously.
The couple have also undertaken official visits to North America and Canada in 2011, to South East Asia in 2012 to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee, and to the east coast of the United States in December 2014.
In October 2015, the pair attended their first state banquet since their marriage. The Buckingham Palace event was held during the visit of Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The duke and duchess then jointly hosted - along with Prince Harry - a dinner for US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle when they visited the UK in April 2016.
The duchess's interests include scuba diving - she became an advanced scuba diver in August 2015 - and photography, having taken the photographs to mark Princess Charlotte's first birthday and a set released when her daughter reached six months old.
The duchess was chosen as the cover star of the June 2016 edition of British Vogue, in her first sitting for a magazine.


A 19-year-old who plotted a massacre at his former college has been jailed for life with a minimum term of eight years.

Liam Lyburd was convicted at Newcastle Crown Court of possessing an arsenal of weapons including pipe bombs and a gun, with intent to endanger life.
The judge said his threats showed he was a significant risk to the public.
In a deleted file recovered from his computer, Lyburd wrote: "People will die, there's no question about that."
Jurors heard the "cold and detached" teenager held a grudge against his former college after he was kicked off his course for bad behaviour.
Lyburd, of Hamilton Place, Newcastle, said he had not intended to hurt anyone at Newcastle College.
Police found a cache of weapons, a "kill bag" containing overalls, a mask, boots and pipe bombs at his home after they were tipped off by a member of the public concerned about his Facebook postings talking about launching a murderous attack.
The bag also contained a Glock pistol and 94 hollow-tipped expanding bullets.
Officers recovered webcam pictures Lyburd took of himself dressed for combat, armed with the pistol and brandishing a knife.
In the deleted file he said: "You people ruined my whole life, don't expect me to show mercy today. No-one disrespects me and gets away with it.
"I'll teach you people a little lesson on respect with my 9mm jacketed hollow points."
Det Supt George Duff, who led the investigation, said Lyburd was a "dangerous man who intended to cause serious harm".
"He at no point has shown any remorse for what he intended to do," he said.
Judge Paul Sloan QC commended the member of the public who alerted police to Lyburd's behaviour.
He told Lyburd that, if they had not, "it was only a matter of time before you would have put your plan into action".
"Your emotional coldness and detachment and your lack of empathy to others was self-evident," he said.
Lyburd was warned the psychiatric evidence suggested it might be a "very long time indeed" before he is considered safe enough to be released.
He laughed as he was taken away by police, telling officers they had saved lives and prevented what would have otherwise been a massacre at the college.


Prince Harry showed off his rugby skills at a community sports project for youngsters at a Greater Manchester park.

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Crowds gathered to watch the prince join members of the England U20 squad in a freestyle rugby skills workshop at Alexandra Park in Edgeley, Stockport, on Tuesday.
He is vice patron of the Rugby Football Union and wants to encourage more people to get involved in the sport.


Belfast Giants remain one point behind Elite League leaders Cardiff after hammering Dundee Stars 6-0 at the SSE Arena on Saturday night.

Michael Forney and Steve Saviano netted first-period goals to put the hosts in control against the Scots.
James Desmarais, Chris Higgins and Jonathan Boxill added to the tally in the second period.
Desmarais completed the rout while the Devils stayed top with a 7-5 victory over Coventry Blaze.
Belfast completed a double after Friday's 5-4 win over Notthingham Panthers.
Desmarais is a man in form with his two goals against Dundee coming 24 hours after he hit a treble in the narrow victory over the Panthers.
The Giants are back in action next weekend with an away double-header against Sheffield Steelers.


Scotland's Colin Montgomerie posted a final-round five-over-par 76 in what he hopes is not his last experience of The Open Championship.

It left the 53-year-old a disappointing 17 over par for the tournament on his home course of Royal Troon.
Russell Knox (two over) was the highest placed Scot, with Paul Lawrie 10 over.
"I haven't really performed that well, but at the same time I've always enjoyed the whole theatre of the thing," said Montgomerie.
"I'd love to think this won't be my last Open but it might be."
Henrik Stenson hit an eight-under-par 63 to win The Open by three shots on 20 under after an enthralling final-round tussle with Phil Mickelson.
Montgomerie, who hit the very first shot of the 145th Open on Thursday morning, also started the ball rolling on Sunday at 07:40 BST due to him being bottom of the 81-man pile overnight with a total of 12 over.
Four bogeys and a birdie on the front nine meant the eight-time European Order of Merit winner's score continued to slide deeper into the blue.
Another two bogeys at the 11th and 12th holes did more damage before making par at every hole from the 13th to the 18th.  Montgomerie eventually finished 78th of the 81 players who made the cut.
"This whole year I've struggled," said the Scot, whose best finish at The Open is runner-up to Tiger Woods at St Andrews in 2005.
"I've struggled pulling the ball and the ball is going left. When you are aiming left, expecting a fade, you know, it's doubly bad. So I've just got to sort it out."
Montgomerie now goes on to play in the Senior Open at Carnoustie which starts on Thursday, but has not ruled out trying to take part in another Open.
He joined the field for the first time in six years after finishing in the top three at a qualifying event at Gailes Links in Irvine.
"You've got to be realistic and think that it might well be the last time I'm here at an Open," he said.
"The Gailes Club, part of the Glasgow Golf Club, were very hospitable and I thank them for allowing me to try and qualify to get here in the first place.
"I'd love to try and do that again."
Knox finished joint 30th after a two-under final round of 69.
He said: "I had two goals today. One was to par the second and one was to hit the 11th fairway and I checked both boxes.
"I played excellent today and I was really happy to finish with a good score. I probably finished where I deserved to finish."


The original Bramley apple tree - planted more than 200 years ago and the "mother" of all modern Bramley apples - is dying from a fungal infection.

The tree was sown by a girl called Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809 in the Nottinghamshire town of Southwell.
It has been neglected since the death of owner Nancy Harrison almost two years ago.
Bio-scientist Prof Ted Cocking, who has cloned the tree, said the people of Southwell should care for the Bramley.
Prof Cocking, from Nottingham University, has studied the tree for many years and used tissue cultures to micro-propagate the tree and create clones of the original Bramley.
"It looks as though it is going to die - although we can never be 100% certain with a tree.
"It is a great shame. Ms Harrison devoted most of her life looking after the tree and entertaining people who came from all over the world to visit the tree.
"Since her death, nobody has looked after the tree. The people of Southwell should club together to care for the tree and the garden - it wouldn't cost much.
"Even if it is dying - we all want to die with dignity. It needs to be nursed in its terminal years."
Prof Cocking said the fungal infection gets into the water transport system of the tree and slowly kills it off - similar to a human's arteries getting clogged up.
Any extra stresses - such as a long hot summer - could hasten its death.
Clones taken by Prof Cocking and his team have now reached maturity and are sold commercially.
He said the fruit has a higher concentration of vitamin C and more flavour than that of the 200-year-old specimen and its descendants.
Sir John Starkey, who sells the fruit, said he asked Prof Cocking to clone the original tree as an experiment to "see how they behaved in commercial conditions."
"They looked more like tomato plants, little thin spindly things. I thought they are not going to survive in the wild but how wrong I was because in a few years they were outgrowing in dimensions and vigour the trees which I had from my nursery men," said.
The Bramley became popular because the apple stores well and keeps its flavour when cooked. About 83,000 tonnes of them are now grown in Britain annually.
According to the The Bramley Apple Information Service, it is not well known outside the UK except in Japan where it is revered.
One Japanese apple farmer said he "nearly cried" when he visited Southwell.


A vicar and his daughter will face no further action following the death of a baby boy in Lancashire.

The Reverend James Percival, 66, and Ruth Percival, 29 from Freckleton were arrested on suspicion of child neglect but will not face charges, police said.
They were previously held on suspicion of murder and conspiracy to conceal the birth of a child but also face no further action for those offences.
It followed reports of a woman giving birth to a stillborn baby in 2014.
A post-mortem examination was carried out on the baby but the cause of death remains unascertained.
A spokesperson for Blackburn Diocese said they "note the police decision not to charge the former vicar of Freckleton and his daughter".
"The Diocese has provided pastoral support to the family and will continue to do so as and when required."
Lancashire Police said: "They both answered bail today and, following consultation with the Crown Prosecution Service, have been told they will face no charges."
Det Supt Sue Clarke, who led the investigation for the force's major investigation team, said it had been an "extremely complex and sensitive enquiry".
"We have worked very closely with the Crown Prosecution Service from the very early stages... and we respect the decision they have made not to bring any charges," she said.
Det Supt Clarke said police "recognise the impact that such investigations can have on all those concerned" but were "duty-bound to thoroughly investigate incidents" and stressed that those arrested "have been dealt with professionally and sensitively throughout".
The wife of Mr Percival, of Holy Trinity Church, was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to conceal the birth of a child but was released with no further action.


The inquest into the death of County Tyrone teenager Arlene Arkinson has been adjourned again due to outstanding disclosure issues.

The schoolgirl disappeared after a night out in the Republic of Ireland in 1994 and her body has never been found.
Convicted child killer Robert Howard, who died in prison last year, was the main suspect in her disappearance.
A barrister for the Arkinsons described the handling of certain aspects of the case as a documentation disaster.
The inquest is due to resume on Wednesday.


No matter how many times you have seen it, the sheer preposterousness of it never fails to strike you.

Here are the racing cars that less than two weeks ago were rounding Barcelona's Turn Three at 160mph, and soon will be swooping through Eau Rouge at Spa at close to 200mph, being driven on the limit through streets barely wide enough for a Rolls-Royce.
A Rolls-Royce - or a Lamborghini or a Ferrari or any other material symbol-on-wheels of the global uber-rich - is the more 'normal' transport for a trip around the roads of this Mediterranean principality that combines glamour and seediness like perhaps nowhere else on earth.
The glamour; everyone knows about that - the weather, the boats, the cars, the beautiful people, the lovely Beaux-Arts villas clinging precipitously to the hillsides.
The seediness? Well, Somerset Maugham's observation a century ago that Monaco was a "sunny place for shady people" still applies. Although the conspicuous consumption has grown notably more conspicuous.
The yachts have become super-yachts - some so big they don't fit in the original harbour and resemble floating buildings rather than pleasure cruisers. The elegant villas are in danger of being swamped by modern skyscrapers. And every year there seem to be more supercars crawling around the streets.
Whatever one's feelings about this, though, they are apt to evaporate for a time when the Formula 1 cars go out on track.
Watch at Casino Square or in the tunnel or at Tabac or Piscine and the violence and awe involved in an F1 car on the limit around the streets takes your breath away.
It is F1 at its most raw, the incredible skill of the drivers and performance of the cars forcing a recalibration of one's sense of the possible. And an experience not to be missed.
BBC Sport's chief F1 writer Andrew Benson
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Some people say its a true driver's circuit, but three-time world champion Nelson Piquet was not a fan. "Tell you the truth, I hate Monaco," he said. "It's like riding a bicycle around your living room."
Who says F1 livery needs to be bright and bold? The Haas team will be debuting this monochrome motif in Monte Carlo...
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Afghan forces are fighting back against a Taliban offensive in Tarin Kot, the capital of the strategically important southern province of Uruzgan.

Residents have told the BBC they were forced from their homes by Taliban fighters pushing into the city.
Afghan army reinforcements have arrived and air strikes have targeted militant positions.
Tarin Kot is the latest provincial capital in the sights of the insurgents.
Last month the Taliban closed in on another southern city, Lashkar Gah and in 2015 they briefly captured the capital of Kunduz province in the north.
Sabir Meenawal, a local resident in Tarin Kot, told the BBC that "armed Taliban came to his house at around 10am".
"They asked us to leave. A lot of other families like mine have been forced to leave their houses," he said, adding that fighters used residential buildings to fire on troops.
The governor and police chief of Uruzgan moved to an Afghan military base at the airport, apparently for a security meeting.
There has been fighting at various government compounds, including Tarin Kot prison which is thought to house 400 inmates, many of them suspected Taliban.
An Afghan defence ministry spokesman said that reinforcements have arrived in Tarin Kot and that Afghan airstrikes were launched against the militants with Nato assistance.
The reinforcements were reported to include units led by General Abdul Raziq, the prominent police chief of Kandahar.
There have been claims that some government forces abandoned defensive positions around Tarin Kot. Provincial police chief Wais Samim told AFP news agency that some of the city's defences had fallen without a fight.
"Some policemen retreated from their outposts. Some people here deliberately want the enemy to succeed," he told AFP.
The Taliban have been threatening Tarin Kot for months.
Uruzgan is one of the leading poppy cultivating provinces in Afghanistan and is strategically important as it borders the key southern provinces of Helmand and Kandahar.
Over 1,000 Australian troops were stationed in Tarin Kot between 2005 and 2013, before handing security responsibility to Afghan forces.
Taliban conflict: Thousands flee as fighting threatens Helmand
After the Taliban: Revisiting scarred Kunduz


"Unprecedented" demand for emergency care in Wigan has been partially blamed on the closure of an A&E unit.

Chorley Hospital was downgraded to an urgent care centre in April as it could not "recruit enough staff" following a pay cap for hospital agency staff.
Wigan hospital said it had seen a four-fold increase in people with a Chorley postcode attending its A&E.
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, which runs Chorley, denied the increase was "significant".
The Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) said 260 additional patients had been treated at Wigan hospital since the Chorley service was downgraded two months ago.
It  warned the public on Tuesday not to visit Wigan's A&E department unless they had a life-threatening emergency.
A spokeswoman for the trust told the BBC the added pressure at Wigan Infirmary was due to the downgrading of Chorley's A&E to an urgent care service and follows eight months of "heavy pressure" at the hospital.
She also said there had been an "unexplained" drop-off in the number of people in the Wigan area using out-of-hours GP services.
In a later statement, the trust's chief executive Andrew Foster, claimed: "The increase in attendance is around 20 patients per day and is caused by a number of factors, only one of which is the temporary changes to Chorley Hospital.
"We are seeing around five additional patients from the Chorley area a day."
Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said in April there were "no other safe options" than to close the Chorley facility in 2015.
Its chief executive Karen Partington said the arrangements had seen about 18 patients from the Chorley area attend the nearby Royal Preston Hospital each day which was "lower than we predicted".
She said North West Ambulance Service, and surrounding hospitals, had "not reported any significant increase in patients" but the trust would continue to assess any impact on neighbouring departments.
Lisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, has asked Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt to intervene.
She said: "MPs from across the region have raised concerns about this ongoing and unacceptable situation in Chorley and the impact it is clearly now having on patients."
Chorley Hospital has eight of the 14 doctors it needs and can therefore only staff less than half the hours required.
Patients in Wigan have been advised to use the walk-in centre at Leigh, or out-of-hours GP services instead of attending A&E.


French presidential hopeful Emmanuel Macron has been heckled by factory workers in Amiens after a visit by his far-right rival, Marine Le Pen.

Ms Le Pen upstaged her centrist rival earlier by turning up to speak to the workers as he met their union representatives a few miles away.
Mr Macron, who is far ahead in opinion polls, is in Amiens, his home town, amid accusations of complacency.
He got another boost when former President Nicolas Sarkozy endorsed him.
FranÃ§ois Fillon, the candidate of Mr Sarkozy's own, centre-right Republican party, was knocked out in the first round, leaving uncertainty over how party supporters would vote in the second.
Opinion polls taken since the first round on Sunday suggest Mr Macron, candidate of the En Marche (On The Move) movement, will easily beat Ms Le Pen, who has temporarily stood down as leader of the National Front.
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This was a neat publicity coup for Marine Le Pen. As Emmanuel Macron was holding talks at the local chamber of commerce, the National Front leader made an unannounced visit to the picket line at the Whirlpool factory where she was greeted with enthusiasm by many of the striking workers.
She told reporters there that Mr Macron's decision to meet union officials in the comfortable surroundings of an office - rather than come to the factory gates as she had - was a sign of someone who deep down was contemptuous of  working people's lives.
Mr Macron retorted that Marine Le Pen was cynically exploiting the situation for political ends and that it was more important to work out a  long-term solution for the factory than to score cheap points in front of the cameras.
The clash is symptomatic of a second-round campaign in which so far Marine Le Pen has clearly had the initiative. Some in Mr Macron's camp are urging him to up his game and not assume that his strong lead in the polls will necessarily endure.
The Whirlpool household appliance factory in Amiens, in the rustbelt of France's industrial north, faces the threat of closure with outsourcing to Poland.
Mr Macron earlier saw union delegates at the local chamber of commerce, with TV pictures showing them in discussion in a grey meeting room. Meanwhile, Ms Le Pen was having selfies taken outside the actual factory a few miles away.
When he visited the actual factory, surrounded by journalists, he was booed and whistled.
"There is no work!" a woman shouted repeatedly as he sought to address the workers.
"It's important not to feed anger but to be up to meeting expectations," he told the crowd. "Of course there's anger in the country, there's anguish, there's a responsibility to take, that's why I'm here."
Ms Le Pen, whose new campaign slogan is "Choose France", tweeted (in French) photos of her meeting the workers and said: "With me, their factory won't close!"
She seeks to portray her pro-EU opponent as the candidate of "runaway globalisation", hoping to pick up votes from the extreme left despite her own far-right background.
Leading members of the ruling Socialist Party have criticised Mr Macron, a former Socialist minister, for not fighting hard enough in the run-off campaign.
"He was smug," Socialist Party boss Jean-Christophe Cambadelis told French radio. "He wrongly thought that it was a done deal. It's not a done deal."
In a statement (in French) on Facebook, Mr Sarkozy said he would vote for Mr Macron and was retiring from politics himself.
"I consider that the election of Marine Le Pen and the launch of her project will bring serious consequences to our country and to the French," he wrote.
"I will therefore be voting in the second round of the presidential election for Emmanuel Macron. It's a choice of responsibility, which is not in any case a support for his project."


The number of bowel cancer patients dying after surgery in Wales appears to be higher than expected, new figures published on Monday suggest.

The study found that after two years 27.5% of Welsh patients had died, compared to a combined rate for England and Wales of 24%.
The Health and Social Care Information Care (HSCIC ) said the difference could be due to less detailed Welsh data.
Earlier this year, Wales showed the biggest increase in cancer survival.
For the most recent figures the national audit of bowel cancer surveyed more than 78,000 colorectal cancer patients.
More than 2,000 people are diagnosed with bowel cancer each year in Wales.
Bowel cancer, also known as rectal, colorectal or colon cancer, is the third most common cancer in Wales.
In Wales, a national bowel screening programme offers a test kit to men and women aged between 60 and 74 to help with early diagnosis of any problems.
It aims to reduce the number of bowel cancer deaths by 15% by 2020.
The HSCIC said the way information was recorded in Wales meant it was difficult to assess whether higher death rates were due to other factors, such as patients having other life-limiting illnesses.
"There are many potential explanations for variation in two year mortality, including differences in patient characteristics, differences in the completeness and accuracy of data submitted, and differences in the quality of care for people with colorectal cancer, both before and after surgery," said consultant surgeon Nigel Scott, the study's clinical lead.
"We will investigate these potential causes in further detail in next year's National Bowel Cancer Audit."


The Paris attacks have prompted Scotland's first minister to warn there is no place for "bigotry and prejudice" in Scotland.

Nicola Sturgeon stressed that any hate crime in the wake of the tragedy was "totally unacceptable".
She was speaking after observing the Europe-wide minute silence at the Glasgow Central Mosque.
A total of 129 people were killed in Paris when gunmen targeted restaurants, a concert hall and the Stade de France.
The Scottish government's international development minister, Humza Yousaf, is among those to have been subjected to abusive comments on social media in the days since the atrocities, including posts accusing him of being a terrorist sympathiser.
The Glasgow MSP has reported Twitter and Facebook abuse to the police, who are investigating.
In a post on his Twitter feed, Mr Yousaf thanked people for the numerous messages of support he had received, and urged anyone else who had been the victim of a hate crime to report it to Police Scotland.
Police Scotland's Deputy Chief Constable Iain Livingstone said that his officers had dealt with a number of crimes motivated by religious hatred since the Paris attacks.
Three men, aged 25, 26, and 29 were arrested in Glasgow on Saturday for an alleged racial breach of the peace. In a separate incident, a 43-year-old man was detained in Clydebank on Sunday in connection with a similar offence.
Police Scotland said a 19-year-old man had also been arrested on Saturday in connection with the Communications Act.
There is absolutely no place for bigotry and prejudice in Scotland and this government is clear that any form of hate crime is totally unacceptable
Ms Sturgeon was at the mosque the day before a group of refugees from Syria were due to arrive in Scotland.
She said: "These people are fleeing the terror of Isis, that's why as a community and in co-operation with other countries we have a part to play in dealing with the refugee crisis."
Ms Sturgeon said the refugees coming to the UK through the Syrian Vulnerable Peoples Relocation Scheme had "undergone stringent security checks".
She added: "There is absolutely no place for bigotry and prejudice in Scotland and this government is clear that any form of hate crime is totally unacceptable and will not be tolerated in 21st Century Scotland.
"I urge people not to let these terrorists win by dividing us and driving a wedge between the multi-cultural society Scotland is home to.
"We are stronger when united and that is one of our strengths.
"We are due to welcome Syrian refugees to Scotland tomorrow and we need to show that we are a country of compassion and acceptance."
General secretary of Glasgow Central Mosque, Nabil Shaikh, supported the first minister's statement and added that "these crimes are not in the name of Islam".
He added: "We need to educate people that whilst they [Islamist terrorists] might go around hijacking our religion to serve their own causes, this has nothing to do with Islam and we do not consider them Muslims."
Flags at Scottish Government buildings and at the Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh were flown at half mast as a mark of respect for those who lost their lives.
Ms Sturgeon said the minute silence had been observed in Scotland and across Europe and was was "a clear indication that we all stand in solidarity with France".
She went on to praise Scotland's Muslims as a "valued and integral part of our society".
A total of 23 people have been arrested early on Monday and dozens of weapons seized in a series of raids on suspected Islamist militants across France, officials have said.
Belgian police also carried out raids in Brussels.
Mariesha Payne, from Perth, who as among other Scots caught up in terrorist attacks, has given further interviews to the BBC.
She escaped after hiding for three hours in a cellar at the Bataclan concert hall.
She said: "It was just the most cowardly thing, to walk in and shoot people in the back.
"They don't discriminate. There were people of all religions, all races, in that building, all having a good time, uniting together in music and that is the last thing you expect to happen to you."


The department of medicine for the elderly at Borders General Hospital has been shut due to a norovirus outbreak.

One bay on another ward at the site near Melrose has also been closed to admissions.
NHS Borders said the situation was being managed by its infection prevention and control team.
Visiting the department has been "strongly discouraged" and anyone who has had symptoms of the virus in the past 48 hours should stay away.
Dr Tim Patterson, consultant in public health medicine, said: "Norovirus is one of the most common causes of diarrhoea and vomiting illness.
"It is very infectious, spreads quickly between people and can start abruptly and spread quickly through communities.
"It is vital to protect yourselves and your loved ones from catching this unpleasant virus.
"Patients, visitors and staff can help minimise the spread by complying with instructions given by staff and paying attention to the signs at the entrances to the hospital and wards."