Without any pommel-horse gyrations and contortions, I can offer one genuine affinity between Olympic artistry and the other sort of contest embodied in the long-list for the Man Booker Prize. Aritomo, the mysterious Japanese gardener in Malaya of Tan Twan Eng's novel The Garden of Evening Mists, also excels at archery.

A wave of vigilante postbox painting is sweeping the nation, it seems. After Royal Mail promised to paint a postbox gold in the home town of all Great Britain's Olympic gold-medal winners, overlooked locals have taken matters into their own hands.

Former world heavyweight champion Michael Dokes, 54, has died after losing his battle with liver cancer.

Chloe Jackson has just one more fight to win before she gets the chance to live her dream - to box for Team GB at the Olympics. So begins Bitch Boxer, one of five plays that have been brought up to the Fringe by Old Vic New Voices (OVNV), a new venture from the London theatre for 2012 giving a platform to young talent and their freshest stories.

More than one-third of Britain's Olympic medal winners were born abroad, or had a foreign parent or grandparent, reflecting the nation's rapidly-changing demographic make-up, according to an analysis for the i.

More than a third of Britain's Olympic medal-winners were born abroad, or had a foreign parent or grandparent, reflecting the nation's rapidly changing demographic make-up, according to an analysis for The Independent.

Anthony Joshua is preparing to spend his first week as Olympic super-heavyweight champion munching on his favourite chocolate cake and resisting the potential pit-falls of his new-found fame.

Anthony Joshua rounded off Great Britain's most successful boxing performance at an Olympic Games for over 100 years in dramatic fashion as he made up a three-point deficit in the final round to claim super-heavyweight gold on countback.

Olympic champion Luke Campbell is confident Britain's boxers will add to the host nation's gold medal tally today.

London's Olympics have been a knockout, but there's no doubt who will be Britain's biggest hit of the Games. If Anthony Joshua, one of the two British boxers in this afternoon's finals, wins the super-heavyweight title, he will be within striking distance of a gold mine.

Bantamweight scores another great triumph for Britain against plucky Irishman to join Adams in the golden gloves club

She boxed her way to an historic gold in front of ecstatic spectators. Here she describes her magical week to Emily Dugan

As the Olympic Games come to their final weekend, there are still some British medal hopes remaining. Most of those are today rather than tomorrow, with Mo Farah the highest profile. There are also a set of canoe sprint finals this morning, boxing finals both today and tomorrow, and men's and women's modern pentathlon today and tomorrow respectively.

Paula Radcliffe says that Mo Farah can win his second gold medal tomorrow night before his wife, Tania gives birth.