Jamaican athlete Usain Bolt gestures during a press conference ahead of the World Athletics championships in London.

Bolt spells out perfect ending to his story

We have, perish the thought, fewer than 50 hours left to describe -Usain Bolt as an athlete in the present tense. Come Sunday morning, he will stretch those lissom limbs and reflect, in all likelihood, upon a fourth 100 metres world title that brings down the curtain on the greatest track-and-field tale ever told.

His day in court. Sports Direct boss Mike Ashley.

Ashley wins drunken £15m bonus case

Jeffrey Blue, an ex-Merrill Lynch investment banker who worked for Ashley, alleged in a London lawsuit that his boss reneged on a pledge made in a bar.