Craig Lowndes is cheered home by his squad as he claimed a third straight Bathurst win with Jamie Whincup. Photograph: Cameron Spencer/Getty Images.
Team Vodaphone’s Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup celebrated their third consecutive victory in Australia’s classic Bathurst 1000 race at Mount Panorama yesterday.
The Triple 8 pair in the Ford Falcon became the first drivers [...]

Smith passed Stewart, but crossed the yellow line in doing so. Photograph: Jerry Markland/Getty Images for Nascar
Tony Stewart was the second driver to cross the line but still claimed his first win of the season at the Talladega Superspeedway.
With two crashes having depleted the field, Stewart led after the final restart but was challenged in [...]

Carl Edwards takes the flag; post-race panel bashing with Kyle Busch not shown. Photograph: Getty Images for Nascar.
Carl Edwards secured his place in the Chase for the Nascar Sprint Cup by winning the Sharpie 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on Saturday evening – but he had to bump Kyle Busch out of the way to [...]

Sarah Stevenson’s questioning of the judges decisions during her quarter-final defeat turned out to be well founded. Photograph: Alessandro Bianchi/Reuters
Britain’s Sarah Stevenson was at the centre of an extraordinary controversy in the taekwondo competition when officials reversed the result of her second round heavyweight bout against the double Olympic champion from China, Chen Zhong, and [...]

Tim Brabants slices through the flat waters in Shunyi to win his K1 500m heat. Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty Images
Having qualified for the final of the K1 1,000m class on Monday afternoon, Britain’s Tim Brabants booked a place in the K1 500m final too with an assured performance in the opening heat on a Shunyi lake, [...]

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 [...]

Nicole Cooke wins gold in the road race. Photograph: Carl De Souza/AFP/Getty Images
Cyclist Nicole Cooke broke the British team’s Beijing medal drought in style today, overcoming a world-class field and pouring rain to win gold in the women’s road race.
Racing in the shadow of the Great Wall on the day that the rain that has [...]

Edwards jumps for joy after a Pocono Sprint Cup victory that had looked in doubt. Photograph: Jim McIsaac/Getty Images
Carl Edwards took his fourth Sprint Cup victory of the season at Pocono yesterday after rowing with his crew chief Bob Osborne, who he thought had cost him a victory.
A severe downpour threatened to bring the Pennsylvania [...]

Andy Cole: ‘The constant press attention made our lives untenable’. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA
A front-page clarification in the Daily Star was not enough to prevent the paper paying substantial damages and costs to ex-England footballer Andy Cole after falsely branding him a “wife-beater”.
On February 26 the Star ran a front-page headline “Footie Cole is a [...]

Johnson kisses the famous yard of bricks after winning a bizarre race at Indianapolis. Photograph: Robert LeSieur/Reuters
Jimmie Johnson overcame tyre problems that blighted the entire field to take victory in the Allstate 400 Nascar Sprint Cup race held at the Brickyard yesterday.
The Hendrick Motorsports driver started his Chevrolet from pole position at Indianapolis and was [...]