Nick Dempsey surged into a the overall men’s RS:X lead in Hyeres on Friday, while Chris and Gabby Adcock went down at the quarter-final stage of the European Badminton Championships. Here’s our review of the last 24 hours:
Five British crews remain in podium positions with just two days remaining of the Sailing World Cup competition in Hyeres, and Friday’s action saw Olympic silver and bronze medallist Nick Dempsey take an overall lead in the RS:X Men’s fleet.
The 35-year-old made the most of the only race of the day in his class, with weather once again playing havoc with the schedule.
Dempsey posted a fifth-place finish to take the overall lead, while Bryony Shaw also remains well placed in second in the women’s windsurfing fleet after picking up a 12th in her sole race on Friday.
Hannah Mills and Saskia Clark remain firmly in the hunt in the 470 Women’s event, in second overall just a point behind the Brazilian crew, while overnight leaders John Robertson, Hannah Stodel and Steve Thomas slipped to third in the Sonar.
And in the men’s 470 Luke Patience and Chris Grube were happy to bounce back with an eighth in their only race to go ninth overall, after a big points day on Thursday where they picked up a black flag disqualification and a 26th.
“We were a little bit slow in the first race yesterday, we were just struggling for a little bit of pace,” said Grube.
“Our programme at the moment is all aimed at getting us going faster but when you’re trying to go faster sometimes you have to accept you’re going to go slower at some points.
“Today the aim was just to go out and have a solid race, which we did.”
British Olympic hopefuls Chris and Gabby Adcock could not discover their best form in France and had a surprise exit at the quarter-final stage of the European Badminton Championships.
The Adcocks, top seeds and Superseries champions, faltered against Mathias Christiansen and Lena Grebak in La Roche-sur-Yon and went down 21-14 19-21 19-21.
They did lead in the deciding third game, but the Danish pairing came back at them and the husband-and-wife pairing could not save the last of three match points.
“Unfortunately our performance didn't get much better today,” said Gabby afterwards on Twitter, who admitted they had been slightly off-colour all week.
“We tried our best but it just wasn't good enough. Would like to say as always the support we get in France was amazing and a pleasure to play in front of. Time for a short break.”
Chris added: “No more than we deserved this week unfortunately. Played very poor all week.”
Elsewhere there was good news for the Brits in action as Rajiv Ouseph and Kirsty Gilmour reached the singles semi-finals.
Scot Gilmour beat Spain's Beatriz Corrales 21-19 22-20, while Ouseph overcame fourth seed Hans-Kristian Vittinghus of Denmark 19-21 21-12 21-19.
And English pairing Marcus Ellis and Chris Langridge beat their Scottish rivals Rob Blair and Adam Hall 21-19 21-13 to book their spot in the men's doubles semi-finals.
Olympic bronze medallist Robbie Grabarz believes the men's high jump is set to be one of the most hotly contested events on the athletics circuit this year.
While the Olympic Games in Rio will be the high point of the summer, there promises to be plenty of intriguing battles beforehand between the world’s leading high jumpers.
After a period of injury since London 2012, Grabarz is shaping up to be in the mix after winning world indoor silver in Portland earlier this year.
He will get the chance to show what he can do on home soil too with the Birmingham Diamond League taking place on Sunday June 5.
“Others will probably disagree but I believe the men's high jump is the most exciting event in track and field in 2016,” Grabarz told British Athletics.
“The quality of the event is amazing. We have the best in the world coming to Birmingham for the Diamond League and people will get to see what I mean.
“I've had a difficult four years since London but I'm now back in form and ready to use the Birmingham Diamond League as my launch pad to the Rio Olympics.
“The others need to watch out because I'm the comeback kid and ready to take on the world.”
Sir Bradley Wiggins was forced to abandon the Tour de Yorkshire on the opening stage as Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen won the bunch sprint into Settle.
Wiggins, riding as part of his build-up to the 2016 Olympics where he is aiming to compete for Team GB on the track – pulled out roughly 26km from the finish after feeling the effects of being caught up in a crash outside Beverley.
Fellow Team Wiggins rider Scott Davies was also the victim of a crash as JLT Condor's Christopher Lawless finished as the top Brit, and ONE Pro Cycling’s Pete Williams claimed the King of the Mountains lead.
The peloton reeled in an initial six-man breakaway, featuring Williams, and despite a last-ditch attack from Steve Cummings in the final kilometres, the stage ended in a sprint.
“Great atmosphere in Yorkshire,” said Wiggins. “It was a tough day's racing so thanks to everyone who braved the weather and came out to support. The boys and I really appreciate it.
“I'm gutted not to join you into the weekend but Rio needs to take priority. Good luck to everyone over the weekend.”
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