Britain’s David Weir faced an anxious wait but will receives his gold medal on Sunday evening. Photograph: Mark Ralston/AFP
In a Paralympic Games increasingly plagued by controversy Rebecca Chin has become the third British athlete to become embroiled in a medal fiasco after a protest was made against her women’s F37/38 discus silver in Beijing on [...]

The LA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant was just a constituent part of the Redeem Team’s single ego. Photograph: Timothy A. Clary/AFP
The United States have their redemption. They arrived in Beijing a fortnight ago on a mission to right the wrongs of Athens four years ago, when they conceded their Olympic crown in humiliating fashion, and [...]

Kate Barber of the USA is shadowed by Britain’s Alex Danson during the final group B match in Beijing. Photograph: Aamir Qureshi/AFP
The Great Britain women’s hockey team have seen their hopes of an Olympic medal of any colour all but disappear, following a disappointing goalless draw with the United States.
Great Britain needed a win to [...]

Rafael Nadal wins men’s singles title in Beijing, beating Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez 6-3, 7-6, 6-3. Photo: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Rafael Nadal capped a magnificent summer by winning the gold medal in the men’s singles tennis in Beijing. Nadal eased to a straight sets victory over Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez, winning 6-3, 7-6 (7-2), 6-3. The 22-year-old Wimbledon [...]

Murray in action against Lu Yen-hsun. Photograph: Julian Finney/Getty Images
It was expected to be, it should have been, it could only have been, a walkover. The man in the best form in the world, the No6, against a bloke from Chinese Taipei of whom no one had ever heard. There could only be one winner. [...]

The women’s team power to victory. Photograph: Roland Weihrauch/EPA
Blood seeping through the bandage on her right-hand, Debbie Flood was slightly disappointed that the stretcher which had been brought out for had been taken away. “I could have done with the rest,” she said.
As the rain worsened and the mist grew here at the Shunyi Rowing [...]

Competitors ride during the men’s cycling road race at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Photograph: Martin Bernetti/AFP
Spain’s incredible sporting summer took another surprising step when Samuel Sanchez added the Olympic road race gold medal to the country’s trophy cabinet, already overflowing after Carlos Sastre’s Tour de France victory, Alberto Contador’s win in the Giro d’Italia, [...]

Fallon reacts to his defeat to Paischer. Photograph: Phil Noble/Reuters
Predictions that Team GB might challenge the odds-on favourites Australia in the “battle for fourth” in Beijing seem that little bit less likely to be fulfilled after former world champion Craig Fallon was defeated by the Austrian Ludwig Paischer in the second round of the men’s [...]

Zara Phillips and Toytown. Photograph: David Davies/PA
Zara Phillips will not compete in this summer’s Olympic Games in Beijing after her horse Toytown was injured during training. It is the second time that an injury to the horse has forced Phillips out of the Olympics after she also missed the Games in Athens in 2004.
“I am [...]

Andrew Hodge is currently one of the top three rowers in the world. Photograph: Getty Images
The men’s four, Britain’s main hope for gold at the Beijing Olympics,have suffered a significant setback in their preparation for the Gameswith the news that injuries have forced two of their key members topull out of the second World Cup [...]