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The former heavyweight champion suffers a hand injury in training

“I need them to have a pulse, not much of a pulse” Bos said of his men

Sir Bradley Wiggins admits he had a “disappointing” first week in the Giro d’Italia, sitting 76 seconds off the lead after nine stages. The Tour de France champion has suffered a fall and a puncture that have hampered his efforts to keep pace with local favourite Vincenzo Nibali and the impressive Cadel Evans.

Check out the tenth stage of the Giro d'Italia

Here in Treviso (a hub of Italian cycling) it looks like a big pink paint bomb has gone off. As with the Tour in yellow, the Giro is all about pink – the strapline for the race is ‘the fight for pink’.

Ricky Burns will resist demands for a rematch with Jose Gonzalez after successfully defending his WBO world lightweight title for a third time in Glasgow on Saturday night.

Sam Tomkins kept up his freakish try-scoring record with four more as Wigan cruised past Hull KR into the Challenge Cup quarter-finals with a 46-14 victory at  Craven Park yesterday. The  full-back has now scored 21 in his last nine games.

Team Sky rider drops to 11th place overall after caution following Friday's crash; Vincenzo Nibali retains lead

Previously unbeaten Puerto Rican quits at the start of the 10th round as WBO world lightweight champion makes his third successful title defence

Check out the ninth stage of the Giro d'Italia

A bitter "battle of the blazers" is seriously endangering the future of Britain's highly successful Olympic boxing set-up, with the former Labour sports minister Richard Caborn threatening to resign as chairman of the Amateur Boxing Association of England following a move to depose his close friend and one-time political ally Derek Mapp as head of umbrella body the British Amateur Boxing Association.

Denmark's Beckham who loves an English fry-up may call it a day if his friend Froch wins rematch

Former Wales rugby player came back from injury to break new ground

So Sir Alex Ferguson finally stopped all the clocks. Jon Snow took himself up to Chester racecourse, where the old nag was supposed to be, to cover the biggest story of the day for Channel 4 News. He was accused of downgrading the Queen's Speech and vilified with as much venom as the Prince of Darkness himself might have unleashed. Meanwhile Fergie had done a neat side-step, Cristiano-style, and was nowhere to be seen. From the other end of the sofa came the comment: "Bloody hell, it's not like the Queen's abdicated" – although as she tuned into the news, she might have considered it. Except that the one person who could run the country instead of her had just headed for the Highlands himself.