Lewis Hamilton heads into Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix fired up to complete a hat-trick of victories and seize the lead in the Formula One title race for the first time this season.

Britain’s Chris Froome put the hammer down in his bid to retain the Tour de France title when he won the 18th stage, a 17km mountain time trial, to extend his overall lead to almost four minutes yesterday.

Sam Allardyce’s appointment as the England’s manager is expected to be delayed until today to allow Sunderland and the Football Association time to finish haggling over compensation.

José Mourinho has said he has three different choices for his final major transfer, of which Paul Pogba is only one.

The Ben Johnson 1988 Olympic 100m final was dubbed “the dirtiest race in history” but there is a new contender for that dubious honour as the fallout continues from the drug-ravaged 2012 women’s 1500m in London.

Flying Dutchwoman Dafne Schippers is a strong contender to emulate compatriot Fanny Blankers-Koen’s golden sprint double from 1948 at next month’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics after a dramatic switch from heptathlon to concentrate on the sprints.

The Al Shaqab Endurance team is currently participating in several endurance competitions in Europe in order to prepare and qualify for the FEI World Endurance Championship to be held in Slovakia in September 2016.

Qatar Stars beat Pakistan Stars by a narrow margin of 9 runs in a Twenty20 match at the Asian Town Cricket Stadium in Doha.

Top seed Venus Williams fended off a spirited challenge in her opening match against world No. 87 Magda Linette at the WTA Tour’s Stanford tournament on Wednesday as she needed three sets to advance.

Max Kepler hit a tiebreaking solo homer with two outs in the ninth inning to power the Minnesota Twins to a 4-1 victory over the Detroit Tigers in Wednesday’s Major League Baseball game.

The diminutive Isabelle Sambou, Africa’s wrestler of the decade, began fighting her brothers, has gone on to battle resistance to women taking part in sport and now wants an Olympic medal.

South Korea’s two-time world taekwondo champion Lee Dae-Hoon has a weight problem when it comes to securing the Olympic title he craves.