Rafael Nadal has spoken out after winning his first round doubles match with Carlos Alcaraz on Saturday.

Melissa Reddy says Erik ten Hag is trying to remain positive after both Rasmus Hojlund and new signing Leny Yoro were forced off with first half injuries during Manchester United’s 2-1 defeat to Arsenal in Los Angeles.

Leclerc on pole at Spa-Francorchamps with Verstappen starting down in 11th after a grid penalty

Yoro and Hojlund were both forced off in the pre-season friendly defeat to Arsenal in Los Angeles

Team US Rugby Sevens player Ilona Maher has praised the Olympics for having “all body types” on display throughout the tournament, and hopes it will inspire more people to “do it too”.

Melissa Reddy says Erik ten Hag is trying to remain positive after both Rasmus Hojlund and new signing Lenny Yoro were forced off with first half injuries during Man Utd’s 2-1 defeat to Arsenal in Los Angeles.

The individual races are due to take place in central Paris on Tuesday and Wednesday.

Our Olympics editor almost breaks bread with le président, gets pulled over by police and revels in a Dupont dreamland4am alarm. Games o’clock. All aboard the Eurostar for my fourth crack as Olympics editor. I sit next to a lovely family surprising their son with a trip to Disneyland Paris. But where are the best thrills and spills? Thunder Mountain or …

After watching the poster boy of London 2012 as a kid, Williams now has the chance to compete alongside him in ParisNoah Williams was only 12 when he went to watch Tom Daley – then the fresh-faced 18-year-old poster boy of London 2012 – claim an extraordinary bronze medal in the 10m platform dive. He admits now that he had little idea that 12 years later …

Rugby’s greatest player gets his golden day nine months after bruising exit from home World CupNon, rien de rien.The turf, he knows. The corridors and the dressing rooms, he knows. The way the noise rolls around the stands, the winding route the coach takes into the guts of the stadium, this he knows. But the open spaces, the daunting feeling of freedom, …

Former captain should have been out early on but then proceeded to switch pressure back on to West IndiesAround 20 minutes after the start of play England were in crisis. Two more first-innings wickets had fallen leaving them five down, they still trailed by 223 and Ben Stokes, standing at the bowler’s end, was yet to score. Joe Root guided the ball to …

Special report A meeting in a New York coffee shop helped US investigators get the inside track on a network of doping and the agents that prey on vulnerable athletesA winter’s day, 2015, New York. Investigator Victor Burgos turned over the conversation he was about to have in his mind. In the next minutes, he was either going to recruit an ally in the …

Tom Aspinall avenges loss to Curtis Blaydes to retain interim heavyweight title on the undercard