Put . If in probability, then for ,
Taking the upper limit and then letting proves that the expectations tend to zero. Conversely,
so expectation convergence implies convergence in probability. This proves the bounded-metric characterization of convergence in probability.
For the subsequence assertion, choose so that
The first Borel-Cantelli lemmas then says that only finitely many of these events occur almost surely. Hence
eventually almost surely, and almost surely. This is the almost-sure subsequence from convergence in probability.