Storm delays leaders in Paris

A three-and-a-half-hour thunderstorm delay meant the leaders did not tee off until 3.15pm in the final round of the French Open at Le Golf National near Paris today.

But far from upsetting Jean van de Velde, trying to get back on the European tour six years after he blew the 1999 Open with a closing triple-bogey seven, he sank an eight-foot birdie putt on the first and then holed a bunker shot on the next.