Mountain biker Grant Ferguson has been added to the Team GB Rio cycling line up while Andy Murray made light work of Nick Kyrgios at Wimbledon. Here’s our review of the last 24 hours:
Team GB will be represented in all four cycling disciplines in Rio after mountain biker Grant Ferguson was added to the team for next month's Olympic Games.
Ferguson enjoyed a highly successful 2015 in which he won silver at the U23 European Mountain Bike Cross Country Championships before taking his first-ever win at the World Cup in Val di Sole, Italy.
He also finished the year strongly with a bronze medal in the men's Under-23 race category at the Mountain Bike World Championships in Andorra before making his debut in the senior elite category at the recent World Championships.
Following the announcement of the road, track and BMX riders last month, Ferguson's inclusion now takes the number of selected cyclists for Rio 2016 to 27.
He said: "I'm thrilled to have been selected to represent Great Britain at the Rio Olympic Games thanks to the support of British Cycling.
"I was fortunate enough to be on the BOA's Olympic Ambition Programme in 2012 and I thoroughly enjoyed the experience so to be able to actually compete this time is really exciting and I can't wait to get out there."
Andy Murray continued his clinical form at Wimbledon this year after comfortably seeing off Australian wonderkid Nick Kyrgios to reach his ninth Wimbledon quarter-final.
The Briton, seeded second, won 7-5 6-1 6-4 on Centre Court and will next face French 12th seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Wednesday.
Kyrgios matched Murray for much of the first set but after the reigning Olympic champion grabbed the opener it was downhill for the Australian from there.
Murray, the 2013 champion, is into the last eight without dropping a set and joins Pete Sampras and John McEnroe in reaching nine consecutive Wimbledon quarter-finals.
“I knew it was a dangerous match, so I had to be switched on from the start," said Murray. “I played well and the first set was really key because he was serving really well. I was able to dictate lots of the rallies and the second set was much more comfortable because Nick lost his focus, which made it a bit easier."
Meanwhile, Jamie Murray and partner Bruno Soares are locked in a marathon men’s doubles third round match with Mate Pavic and Michael Venus. The third seeds took the first two sets but then let control slip, as the 16th seeds took it to a decider, which was deadlocked at 13-13 when bad light stopped play.
In the women’s doubles Heather Watson and Naomi Broady suffered a narrow loss to eighth seeds Julia Goerges and Karolina Pliskova but Johanna Konta reached the third round with American partner Maria Sanchez.
It took a photo finish and an agonising wait but the joyous celebrations when Mark Cavendish was finally confirmed as the winner in Angers on Monday afternoon proved that despite 28 victories, a stage win at the Tour De France still means as much as ever.
The triumph moved Cavendish to second, alongside Bernard Hinault, in the all-time list of stage wins at Le Tour with the incomparable Eddy Merckx (34 successes) now the only man ahead of him.
It was the Manx Missile’s second victory in three days, saw him reclaim the green points jersey from race leader Peter Sagan and, according to the man himself, silenced his doubters once more with a photo finish win over Andre Greipel.
“I normally know when I win and lose a photo-finish and I thought I had it but you just never know,” explained Cavendish.
“I kind of knew I’d got it but you still have to wait because anything can happen. It was phenomenal and it was hairy at the finish but we really planned, planned, planned this stage.
Meanwhile, Chris Froome safely navigated the stage to finish in the heart of the peloton and remain fourth in the overall standings – just 14 seconds behind race leader Sagan.
Double Olympic champion Mo Farah will fine-tune his preparations for Rio 2016 with an outing on home soil in the IAAF Diamond League 5000m at the Muller Anniversary Games.
Farah, winner of 5000m and 10,000m gold at London 2012, will take on many of his Rio rivals, including Diamond Race leader Muktar Edris, Thomas Longosiwa, Edwin Soi and Yenew Alamirew, on Saturday July 23.
It will be the first time the Brit will have raced over 5000m at the Olympic Stadium since winning the Olympic title four years ago.
And with the Muller Anniversary Games coming just two weeks before the Opening Ceremony of this year’s Games in Rio, Farah will be looking to give his British fans a glimpse of what he is capable of in Brazil.
"Racing in the Olympic Stadium is always amazing and I can’t wait to get back to London for the Muller Anniversary Games," he said.
"This will be my final race before the Rio Olympics and I want to give my home fans a day to remember.
"I always get amazing support in London, and with a really tough race ahead I will need the crowd to make as much noise as they can.
"There’s so many world-class athletes competing this year and I’m sure it’s going to be a fantastic weekend of athletics!"
It may have ended in defeat but Lauren Smith believes her and Heather Olver's run to the Yonex Canada Open final will stand them in good stead as they prepare for this summer's Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
Great Britain's leading women's double pairing made it to the final in Calgary but were unable to secure victory on Sunday, losing 21-15, 21-16 to Setyana Mapasa and Gronya Somerville.
"Bit flat today but nice to get back into comp mode and break up the killer training block," tweeted Smith following the defeat.
"Time to get focused and sharpen up for Rio 2016."
Smith and Olver were last week named as Team GB's women's doubles pairing for the upcoming Olympic Games and are ranked 27th in the world.
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