Cycling
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Andy Harrison, acting head of British cycling, said Mark Cavendish and Bradley Wiggins have roomed together in the buildup to their Rio 2016 campaign
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Britain have won an 11th-hour second entry to Wednesday’s men’s time trial, awarded to Geraint Thomas, after so many riders were lost to crashes in Saturday’s brutal road race
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Australia’s pursuit team were involved in a crash during velodrome training on Monday, with Melissa Hoskins taken to a Rio de Janeiro hospital as a precaution
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Cycling’s world governing body, the UCI, has moved to defend the Olympic cycling course after a series of crashes in both the men’s and women’s road races in Rio de Janeiro
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After a nightmare fortnight for Great Britain’s cyclist, rarely has a champion athlete looked so painfully vulnerable at such a defining moment
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Annemiek van Vleuten is recovering in hospital with three cracks in her spine after her horrific crash in the women’s road race at Rio 2016
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Lizzie Armitstead refused to blame the drug tests controversy and said she had support of her fellow cyclists after finishing fifth in the women’s cycling road race at Rio 2016
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Britain’s Tour de France winner Chris Froome is drawing on his experience from London 2012 for the Olympic time trial in Rio on Wednesday
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Richie Porte’s hopes of winning an Olympic medal in Rio were dashed in a downhill crash in the men’s road race that left the Australian cyclist in hospital nursing a broken collar bone
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A stray bullet fired into a media tent at the equestrian venue and a controlled explosion near the road cycling finish threatened to overshadow the opening day of action in Rio
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The world champion had spent much of this season working specifically to perfect her climbing to negotiate a major climb in Rio. Now she faces entirely different obstacles with her mental fortitude on trial
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Belgium’s Greg Van Avermaet outsprinted Jakob Fuglsang of Denmark to take gold in the men’s road race – with Team GB’s Chris Froome and Geraint Thomas out of the medals
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A raft of successful appeals from Russian athletes has been announced as the Games open in Rio, with the swimmer Yuliya Efimova and cyclist Olga Zabelinskaya among those reinstated
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Lizzie Armitstead has responded with an impassioned statement and detailed explanation of the missed drug tests that prompted criticism of the British road race world champion’s continued presence at the Rio Olympics.
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The Australian cyclist Rochelle Gilmore, the owner and manager of the women’s team Wiggle High5, discusses Lizzie Armitstead’s missed tests and how the cycling world will react
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Lizzie Armitstead waited until she faced an 11th-hour ban from the Olympics for missing three drug tests before challenging a missed control from the previous year
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The cyclist Lizzie Armitstead was in danger of missing Rio after being suspended by UK Anti-Doping for allegedly missing three tests
Great Britain pip New Zealand to gold in men’s Olympic cycling team sprint