Britain’s World road race champion Lizzie Armitstead has been cleared to compete at the Rio Olympics after winning an appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
British triple world champion Lewis Hamilton secured his fourth win in a row and sixth this season after a dominant victory at the German Grand Prix on Sunday.
Australia’s athletes have returned to the Olympic Village in Rio. Two days previously the team arrived at the accommodation and walked straight out again, condemning the tower blocks as uninhabitable.
Juventus have completed the signing of Argentina forward Gonzalo Higuain from Napoli after the Old Lady met the player’s buy out clause of 90 million euros.
The Kremlin says it welcomes the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) ruling against a blanket ban on Russian athletes at the next month’s Olympics.