Billy Morgan is the talk of the snowboard world, Jazz Carlin gets her win at London's Olympic pool and Ellie Downie is the star turn at the European Gymnastics Championships. Here's our review of the last 24 hours:
Billy Morgan is a 'go hard or go home' sort of snowboarder - at the Sochi Olympics he made the final as top qualifier but risked it all for a medal and finished tenth.
But Morgan is now the talk of the snowboarding world after landing a world first at a competition in Italy yesterday.
The 26-year old completed the world’s first-ever quad cork - which involves flipping four times, while the body also spins five complete rotations on a sideways or downward-facing axis.
Lewis Houston and Verity Lewis will seek to represent Team GB at next year's Winter Youth Olympics after their selection for ice hockey's Global Skills Challenge in Finland.
The best 15 male and 15 female skaters from the event will make next year's Games. Participants take part in six disciplines; fastest lap, skating agility, pass accuracy, puck control, shooting accuracy and hardest shot.
Jazz Carlin promises there is plenty more to come this year after she stormed to a sensational 400m freestyle victory at the British Swimming Championships.
It was a moment that was long in the making for Carlin who had to wait three years to get back into action at the London Aquatics Centre after she failed to secure her spot at London 2012 following the Olympic trials.
“I had a bit of nerves coming into this – the last time I swam in this pool for the Olympic trials it didn't go the way I wanted it to but I’m a completely different swimmer and athlete now," she said.
Elsewhere, Roberto Pavoni won the 200m medley in a World Championship qualifying time while Cameron Brodie took the men's 200m butterfly and Molly Renshaw won the women's 200m breaststroke.
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Ellie Downie admitted she had to pinch herself in amazement after shining at her first-ever European Gymnastics Championships.
The British squad had plenty of reasons to smile during the first day of action in Montpellier as the women’s squad landed a maximum possible ten final spots.
But there was no doubting who the star of the show was, 15-year-old Downie, making her senior major Championships debut, putting in an outstanding performance in the first qualifying round of the all-around discipline to finish third with a personal-best score of 56.190.
She will be joined in Friday’s final by Commonwealth Games star Claudia Fragapane, who placed fifth scoring 55.031.
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Sir Bradley Wiggins will have a crack at cycling's most fabled record this summer.
The four-time Olympic champion and 2012 Tour de France winner will look to set a new world hour mark at London's Olympic velodrome on June 7th.
"The hour record is a holy grail for cyclists," said Wiggins, who is attempting to follow in the tracks of fellow British cyclists Graeme Obree and Chris Boardman.
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After wins over Estonia and Croatia it was a rest day yesterday for Great Britain at the ice hockey World Championships in Eindhoven. They take on Korea today.
International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach believes sport should play a greater role as a force for positive change around the world.
Speaking to the United Nations in New York, Bach called for sport to be included in the UN's Sustainable Development goals.
“Sport has a unique role in society,” he said. “Sport is the only area of human existence that has achieved its own universal law.
"The rules of sport are recognised and followed wherever sport is played. They are based on a global ethic of fair play, respect for opponents, tolerance and friendship. In sport all people are equal.”
Bach's remarks were met with broad support from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President of the UN General Assembly H.E. Sam Kutesa.
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