Canadian tennis player Eugenie Bouchard is undecided about her participation in next month’s Rio Olympics over concerns about the Zika virus, the 22-year-old said.

Few Libyan women would wear a swimming costume in public, but Daniah Hagul wants to help change a conservative society when she competes at the Rio Olympics.

Spanish tennis player Rafael Nadal is optimistic he will be ready for the Rio Olympics despite heading into next month’s Games having not played a competitive match since May 27 due to a left wrist injury.

Frenchman Georges Mehdi speaks perfect Portuguese, so there’s no problem communicating with the ranks of Brazilian judo black belts. But when he gives lessons in Japanese discipline, they don’t seem to understand.

Nairo Quintana says the only way to beat Chris Froome is to isolate him from his powerful Sky teammates.

Veteran Steve Cummings has been called up to the British cycling team for the Olympic road races in Rio after Peter Kennaugh failed to recover in time from a broken collarbone.

Nairo Quintana is expected to be at his best for the final week of the Tour de France, which feature four stages in the Alps, but Chris Froome says he has never been better going into a grand tour decider.

Claudio Ranieri, manager of shock Premier League champions Leicester, believes sides like Chelsea and Liverpool who failed to even make the Champions League will be prepared to kill all opposition in the forthcoming season.

New Italy coach Giampiero Ventura pledged to continue the good work of his predecessor Antonio Conte and ‘entertain’ fans on their way to securing a place at the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Thomas Bach’s response to a report that found Russia concealed hundreds of positive doping tests ahead of the Sochi Winter Games will determine his legacy as International Olympic Committee president, athletes leaders said on Monday.

“Pure Island: a neighborhood born ready-made,” reads the glitzy brochure for the 31 tower blocks built for $880mn to house athletes for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro next month.

A discreet “mouse hole” through a wall, surreptitiously tampered samples using table salt and night-time visits by Russian secret service agents dubbed “the magicians”.