Mark Cavendish targeting triple success in 2016 while there are strong performances from Britain’s tennis players. Here’s our round up of the last 24 hours.
Mark Cavendish has already accomplished a great deal in cycling although 2016 could yet prove to be the biggest year of his career to date.
The 30-year-old has been training on both the road and track this year as he targets triple success this year.
First comes the Tour de France where he will be looking to get his hands on the yellow jersey for at least a day, before that is followed by the Olympics and the 2016 World Road Race Championships.
Cavendish has never previously won an Olympic medal despite his efforts at Beijing 2008 and London 2012.
And while facing stiff competition for a place in the Rio 2016 omnium from Jon Dibben and Ed Clancy, Cavendish is aiming high.
"If I don't win any of them it is not a failure because they are the biggest things you can do in cycling," said Cavendish
"If I won one I'd be happy but I'll try to win all three.
"I've been mixing road and track. I've been doing more specific track stuff.
"I don't know how that is going to affect my road racing. I could be flying, I could be catastrophic, I could be indifferent. I don't really know - we will have to see when I get racing."
There was double success for Britain’s tennis players as Naomi Broady and Aljaz Bedene both achieved notable victorie.
British number three Broady beat a top-20 ranked opponent for the first time as she knocked out former world number one Ana Ivanovic in the first round of the ASB Classic in Auckland before then following that up with victory over Jelena Ostapenko to reach the third round.
British number one Johanna Konta was beaten however by qualifier Qiang Wang in the first round of the Shenzhen Open.
Bedene meanwhile continued his Australian Open preparations with a first round win over world number 39 Vasek Pospisil in the Chennai Open.
The 26-year-old took one hour and 46 minutes to see of the 2015 Wimbledon quarter-finalist 7-5, 7-6.
Jemma Simpson admits it will take a 'miracle' for her to be fit for Rio 2016 after the middle distance runner ruptured a tendon in her foot.
The 31-year-ol d turned out for Team GB at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing and has also raced at the Commonwealth Games but will now almost certainly miss the chance to race at Rio.
The 800m and 1500m runner, who has previously considered retirement, has snapped her posterior tibial tendon and knows the chance to compete at Olympic level again may have gone.
"I won't be able to run until at least April and then it's qualifying. It's a big ask," she said.
"This was going to be my last push to make a real go at the Olympics - there was a real opportunity to go to Rio.
"I'm not confident [of selection for the Olympics]. It would be a miracle to do that now because I have to run the qualifying time and be ready for the trials, which is in seven months, and I've got three months off.”
England sevens star Emily Scarratt says it's a dream come true as she gears up for a busy year that will culminate in the Olympic Games in Rio.
England's finest will be joined by the cream of the crop from Wales and Scotland in Brazil in August with Scarratt who won the XVs World Cup with the Red Rose in 2014 ñ eager to ensure she is on the plane.
Before the Olympics there a busy season ahead for the country's sevens stars with the World Series in full swing.
But Scarratt admits there is always one eye on Rio ñ though she still has trouble believing that it isn't all just a dream.
"Having rugby in the Olympics and having the chance to play in the greatest sporting stage that there is, it’s really exciting for us," said Scarratt.
"When I first started playing rugby I don't think I believed that we would ever get to be professional and now we all do it as our job and we do have to pinch ourselves because it’s a dream come true.
"The players from Scotland and Wales are there on merit and they are putting their hands up and it will be a really competitive environment heading towards Rio."
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