Elise Christie storms to 500m World Cup gold in Toronto while Andy Murray prepares for Paris Masters final with Novak Djokovic. Here’s our review of the last 24 hours.
Olympic short track speed-skater Elise Christie demonstrated her return to form following injury by taking gold in the 500m at the Toronto World Cup in Canada.
The 25-year-old underwent treatment on her ankle in August after a teammate collided with her in pre-season and only recently returned to the ice.
But she was on top form in Canada, clocking 44.670 seconds to beat European champion Lara van Ruijven and Olympic silver medallist Fan Kexin.
It was her first 500m World Cup victory while she could yet add to that medal tally this weekend having made it through to the quarter-finals of the 1000m.
Andy Murray is one win away from finishing the year as number two in the world after booking his place in the Paris Masters final with a straight-sets win over David Ferrer.
Murray will play Novak Djokovic in Sunday's final knowing a win would move him second after seeing off Ferrer 6-4 6-3.
The Briton took one hours 35 minutes to get past Ferrer after bursting out of the blocks with an early break.
"I think I played aggressive tennis and used the net well,” said Murray. "I came forward and was successful there.
"Finishing as number two in the world would be nice, it wasn’t the goal for the end of the year and rather than being pumped for that it's more about the seeding for the Australian Open.
"It'd be nice, it'd be the highest I will have finished and then there's the Davis Cup so there’s a few things to keep me motivated."
Double world champion James Guy’s recent gold rush continued at the World Cup in Dubai as he won 200m freestyle gold.
Guy, who won the 400m and 200m events at the previous round in Doha, clocked the best time yet again to complete the clean sweep of events in the opening two World Cup rounds following his 400m win earlier in the weekend.
It was one of six medals won by British swimmers on the final day of action with triple world champion Adam Peaty taking 100m breaststroke silver ahead of Ross Murdoch in third.
Harriet Cooper picked up 100m backstroke bronze while Welsh swimmer Jazz Carlin was also third in the 400m freestyle.
While Luke Greenbank won 200m backstroke bronze as Britain finished with 12 medals in total in Dubai.
World and Olympic champion Jessica Ennis-Hill says she will wait until after Rio to make a decision about retirement.
The 29-year-old won heptathlon gold at London 2012 and this summer added world gold to the title she won in 2009 and silver from 2011.
With the World Championships heading to London in 2017 there could be a temptation for Ennis-Hill to stay on and go for a hat-trick of crowns in front of a home crowd.
But she says that there is no rush to make a decision as she concentrates on adding to her Olympic medal tally.
"I'll see how my body holds up," she told the BBC. "My focus is on Rio at the moment and they will be my last Olympics as I'll definitely be too old by 2020.
"I want to enjoy this next year and make the most of it and make a decision on my future after Rio."
If Joe Clarke needs any Olympic inspiration all he needs to do is look across the breakfast table.
Clarke shares a house with Richard Hounslow, who won K2 silver with David Florence at London 2012.
And together they'll be part of a four-strong team of British canoe slalom paddlers in Rio next summer.
"We've got ten months to just focus on the Olympics," he added.
"I can choose what World Cups I do, some of them I'll be using as just a training event. I don't want to be peaking too close to the Games.
"This could be the first of three or four Olympics for me but I'm going to treat this like my last Olympics and just really enjoy it." Read more here.
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