Open T20 windows, say cricketers

More than half of international cricketers might choose the freedom to play T20 club cricket over a Test contract, a survey indicates.

Sailor Tom Burton salvages Australia's sunken gold

Australia's sailors were out to scoop the pool on Guanabara Bay.

Boomers unhappy despite making Team USA sit up and take notice

although Boomers still haven't beaten them, they are getting close enough to smell it

Why drugs in sport needs an iron fist, not an iron curtain

• COMMENT

Is world sport prepared to finish what Mack Horton and Lilly King have started? By world sport, I mean not just athletes and authorities, but media and fans and the pressure they can bring to bear. 

Black-line diplomacy fails as Rio pool overheats

• ANALYSIS

The Olympics fancy themselves as the United Nations of sport, but this week would be described by foreign correspondents as a ticking time bomb.

Bloodiness in the water: Horton has the last word

The more Mack Horton and Sun Yang avoided contact - body, eye, incidental - the more of a contact sport this became.

First green, now gold: the climate changes in Rio

Rio de Janeiro's opening ceremony made a virtue of a vice, and a statement of a virtue. The vice was a cut-price budget roughly a tenth of London's four years ago and spare change from Beijing's before that.

Russia's crime and punishment

In England this week, jousting was proposed as a future Olympic discipline, as if big-time sport in its battle to beat drug cheats has not already had more than enough trouble with Lances.

Rio Olympics: Russia facing the axe

Russia's participation in next month's Rio de Janeiro Olympics is hanging in the balance ahead of the release in Toronto of a report into allegations of state-sponsored doping at the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics.