Press conference called for Thursday

Sebastian Coe is to be honoured for his achievements on and off the track by being given the Lifetime Achievement Award at tonight's BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards.

The Olympic games is officially at the end of its cycle, we've laughed, we've cried and we've celebrated and here at The Independent, we've decided to bring you the funniest quotes from the London 2012 Olympic Games.

So near but so far: Vicky Pendleton’s final race ended in disappointment as she was forced to settle for silver when longstanding nemesis Anna Meares of Australia defeated her for one last time in the individual sprint.

What a great, great way to go: Sir Chris Hoy rounded off his Olympic career in better fashion, smashing ahead of the opposition in the men’s keirin for his sixth gold medal and in the process becoming his country’s greatest ever Olympian in the most triumphant of exits.

Sir Chris Hoy started his campaign today to become the greatest British Olympian ever with an impressive win in the first round of the keirin. 

British Cycling performance director Dave Brailsford paid tribute to Victoria Pendleton ahead of her Olympics swansong in the velodrome tonight.

10am Athletics Women's javelin qualifying, followed by the men's 110m hurdles heats at 10.10am and triple jump qualifying at 10.45am.

Dazzling success at Eton Dorney down to a mentality where there is no place for second-best

Great Britain's stunning regatta performance produces two more golds, an emotional silver and a rallying cry to the young

It would be woefully parochial to trace the glory of the bronze medals won by British oarsmen yesterday only to a flourishing home camp. The bigger picture instead implores due congratulation to Alan Campbell, George Nash and Will Satch for the company they kept, not round the breakfast table, but on the lake itself.

ABSOLUTELY the first imperative is that everyone remembers to look upon this beaming, beatific champion and say: “Jolly well done, Anna Watkins!” It is her alchemy, after all, that has finally turned silver into gold. And it was instructive of the charm that has compounded Katherine Grainger’s status, as darling of this regatta, that the glory they shared here yesterday was as much a matter of parity as synchronicity. Reciprocally, however, Watkins will understand if Grainger, having at last requited a 12-year craving, is widely saluted as first among equals.

British Cycling sprint coach Jan van Eijden has defended Philip Hindes after the 19-year-old admitted to deliberately crashing before propelling Great Britain to team pursuit gold on day one at the London 2012 Olympic Velodrome.

The Olympic velodrome exploded with noise as Sir Chris Hoy took another gold medal tonight.