Mark Cavendish claims it is "stupid" to regard cycling as "dirty" despite the controversy which continues to surround the sport. Lance Armstrong's ...

It is over two weeks since Mark Cavendish's protracted departure from Team Sky and still the wounds are red raw. The British squad might have won the ...

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Britain's Jason Kenny became the host nation's first double gold medallist of London 2012 today with a breathtaking sprint finish. In the heat and ...

The golds will come. In the meantime, let's savour the successes of those British athletes whose medals maybe be less shiny but whose stars are higher and brighter than ever.

After the anti-climax of day one, Britain hoped for more success on day two, with and Rebecca Adlington took hope bronze at the Aquatic Centre and whi...

The red-hot favourites didn't win, but that's road racing. After watching Team Sky's astonishing success at controlling the peloton in the recent Tour de France, it's obvious why the opposition was determined to stifle them at London 2012.

After just one day of the Olympics it is already clear that the coverage will be on all day every day in the background in our flat. It's a strangely familiar scenario, long summer days of sport half watched whilst decorating, writing, reading the paper, or... just about anything else.

If Cavendish is to win, it will require a far greater performance from him and his team than the excellent one that made him world champion last year.

In the wake of our plodding footballers and hard-to-love tennis players, why do we insist on worshipping the least deserving sporting heroes?

The first medal of the 2012 Olympics will be won on Saturday 28 July, with British cyclist Mark Cavendish the favourite to get Team GB off to a medal-winning start in the road-race.