Sporting Digest: Olympic Games

Dick Telford, a leading Australian athletics coach, has urged organisers to reschedule the marathon at next year's Atlanta Olympic Games saying there was a real threat of athletes suffering heat stress. He said the race should be run in the early morning instead of 6.30pm, when temperatures will be in the mid-to-high 30s Centigrade with sapping humidity.

Snooker

REGAL MASTERS (Motherwell) First round: D Morgan (Wal) bt J Parrott (Eng) 5-0; J Higgins (Sco) bt A McManus (Sco) 5-1.