There has been widespread astonishment at the decision to destroy 200 blood bags seized during Operation Puerto

The tour

New performance director of UK Athletics once beat Cram and Coe and is confident he can beat London medal haul in Rio, he tells Simon Turnbull

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

Historically the stronger girls tend to come out on top but Jess Ennis can blow them out of the way

These Olympics started brilliantly but the momentum from the opening ceremony has been dampened by the empty seats we are seeing across the Games.

Phillips Idowu was today on course to be fit to compete at the Olympics, according to the British Olympic Association.

Freya Murray spent yesterday morning putting the finishing touches to a housing project, sitting in the Newcastle office of the firm for whom she works as a structural engineer.

Team GB celebrated its first Olympic medal success today with cyclist Lizzie Armitstead battling through torrential rain for a silver and swimmer Rebecca Adlington earning a courageous bronze.

Moroccan gold medal track prospect Mariem Alaoui Selsouli has been thrown out of the Olympic Games after failing a drugs test for the second time in her career.

Britain's heptathlon gold-medal hope chooses another small meet to tune long jump and javelin

Dan Pfaff is best known in the coaching world as the man behind Donovan Bailey, the Canadian who blitzed to Olympic 100m gold in world record time in Atlanta in 1996. He also had a brief spell guiding Marion Jones and Tim Montgomery that ended acrimoniously before the golden couple became embroiled in the Balco drugs scandal.

Hallissey's heroics in London give GB selectors a headache as Kenyans dominate podium places