Lewis Hamilton would not have won the driver’s title this year until Bernie Ecclestone’s proposed medal scheme. Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images
Formula one president Bernie Ecclestone wants to scrap the sport’s current points system and instead replace it with an Olympics-style medal scheme. Under the new proposal, the eventual world champion would be the driver who [...]

Montell Douglas, left, Emily Freeman, centre, and Emma Ania of Great Britain’s women’s 4×100m relay team. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images
There’s a favoured argument among track and field fans that claims that medals in the sport are the hardest to win at any Olympics, because it is the most international of all the events. It is [...]

Goldie Sayers throws the javelin during the women’s final, in which she finished fourth. Photograph: PA
Britain’s Goldie Sayers narrowly missed out on a medal in the women’s javelin final, the 26-year-old finishing fourth just 0.38m behind bronze medallist Christina Obergfoll of Germany.
Sayers threw a new personal best and British record of 65.75m in the first [...]

Bradley Wiggins and Steven Burke on the podium. Photograph: Reuters
A one-two for Britain in the men’s keirin provided the perfect finish to the day’s events in the Olympic velodrome. As expected, Chris Hoy dominated the final to win his second gold medal of the Games and third in total, with Ross Edgar producing an explosive [...]