Summer Sports

Evans to join BMC Racing

By Duncan Mackay

November 2 - Australia's road race world champion Cadel Evans (pictured) has signed a three-year contract with BMC Racing with a victory in next year's Tour de France as his main goal, the American cycling team said today.

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Exclusive: Grainger should give up single sculls, says Sir Steve

By Duncan Mackay

By Mike Rowbottom

November 2 - Sir Steve Redgrave, arguably Britain’s most celebrated Olympian, has advised his former Great Britain colleague Katherine Grainger to end her experiment in the single sculls if she wants to further her Olympic ambitions for London 2012 – even though she won a world silver medal at the event in this year's World Championships.

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UK Athletics unveils new coaching strategy

By Duncan Mackay

November 2 - Long term coach development and a better coaching environment are at the heart of UK Athletics' new coaching strategy announced by Kevin Tyler (pictured), the organisation's Strategic Head of Coaching and Development.

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Adlington complains to BBC over Boyle slur

By Duncan Mackay

November 1 - Britain's double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington (pictured) has officially complained to the BBC for for failing to take tougher action over "outrageous" slurs made against her by comedian Frankie Boyle.

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Hat-trick for Sir Chris as Britain complete domination

By Duncan Mackay

November 1 - Sir Chris Hoy (pictured) was again the centre of attention as Britain's cyclists maintained their remarkable dominance on the final day of the UCI Track World Cup event at the Manchester Velodrome.

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English Open gives British table tennis players chance to taste atmosphere

By Duncan Mackay

By Tom Degun in Sheffield

November 1 – The 65th English Open Table Tennis Championships drew to a close today at the English Institute of Sport (EIS) in Sheffield after five days of pulsating action that included the majority of the world’s top players.

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Radcliffe beaten by her old nemesis Tulu

By Duncan Mackay

By Duncan Mackay in New York

November 1 - Britain's Paula Radcliffe (pictured) suffered her first defeat in a marathon outside of the Olympics when Derartu Tulu produced a stunning return to form to claim victory in the New York City Marathon and finishing ahead of a world record field of 43,741 runners here today.

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Wiggins set for Team Sky after Evans decides Silence is not golden

By Duncan Mackay

November 1 - The way could be open for Britain's Bradley Wiggins to join Team Sky in a multi-million pound deal after Australia's world champion Cadel Evans (pictured) decided to leave Belgian team Silence-Lotto.

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Whitaker wins on comeback from drugs ban

By Duncan Mackay

November 1 - Britain's Michael Whitaker (pictured) has returned from his four month doping ban with a victory in the United States.

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Lewis-Francis threatens to walk away after cash blow

By Duncan Mackay

November 1 - Olympic gold medallist Mark Lewis-Francis (pictured) has threatened to quit athletics before the London 2012 Olympics after his National Lottery funding was cut by UK Athletics.

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Exclusive: Badminton and rhythmic gymnastics must move to Wembley says Johnson

By Duncan Mackay

By Tom Degun in London

October 31 - Boris Johnson (pictured) has again given his backing to move badminton and rhythmic gymnastics to Wembley Arena after he told insidethegames that staging the sports at the North West London venue was the cheapest option.

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Exclusive: Badminton and rhythmic gymnastics must move to Wembley says Johnson

By Duncan Mackay

By Tom Degun in London

October 31 - Boris Johnson (pictured) has again given his backing to move badminton and rhythmic gymnastics to Wembley Arena after he told insidethegames that staging the sports at the North West London venue was the cheapest option.

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Sir Chris spearheads British dominance

By Duncan Mackay

October 31 - Sir Chris Hoy (pictured) tonight led a British clean-sweep in the men's sprint on the second day of the UCI Track World Cup at the Manchester Velodrome.

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Keatings claims British all-round title

By Duncan Mackay

October 31 - Daniel Keatings (pictured), the World Championship silver medallist, won the all-round title at the British Artistic Gymnastics Championships at Goresbrook in London today.

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Chuene told by ANC to apologise for lying over Semenya

By Duncan Mackay

October 31 - Leonard Chuene, the President of Athletics South Africa (ASA), has been ordered to apologise by a group of senior African National Congress (ANC) officials, including Nelson Mandela's former wife, after he admitted lying about the Caster Semenya gender row.

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