Summer Sports



Exclusive: "London 2012 will be harder" admits Brownlee

By Tom Degun in London

Alistair_Brownlee_crossing_line_Hyde_Park_August_7_2011August 8 - Britain's Alistair Brownlee is confident that his emphatic victory at the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Hyde Park yesterday will not give away the secret of how to beat him next year when the London 2012 Olympic triathlon takes place on the same course.





British double as Brownlee dominates on London 2012 course

By Duncan Mackay

Alistair_Brownlee_wins_in_Hyde_Park_August_7_2011August 7 - Exactly a year to the day before he hopes to be crowned as Olympic champion on the same course, Alistair Brownlee made it a British double at the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Series in Hyde Park with a dominant victory that underlined his position as the sport's dominant personality.



Exclusive: "We are rubbing our hands" at the prospect of Olympic road race after Cavendish Tour de France green jersey admits Brailsford

By Tom Degun

Mark_Cavendish_in_green_jersey_and_helmet_Tour_de_France_July_2011August 7 - Dave Brailsford, British Cycling's performance director and the general manager of Team Sky, has claimed Britain's top cyclists are rubbing their hands together at the prospect of winning Olympic gold medal in the men's road race after Mark Cavendish became the first British rider to win the maillot vert in this year's Tour de France.