Motor Racing: The family of the late French Formula One driver Jules Bianchi are planning legal action against the sport’s governing body, his former Marussia team and Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula One Group, they said in a statement yesterday. Bianchi, 25, died in hospital in his home town of Nice last July after suffering serious head injuries when he crashed into a recovery crane at Suzuka during the October 2014 race. He was the first Formula One driver to die of injuries sustained during a race since Brazilian triple world champion Ayrton Senna in 1994.
Cricket: Top order batsman Nick Compton admits his England future hangs in the balance after his three-ball duck in the first test against Sri Lanka at Headingley. England thumped Sri Lanka by an innings and 88 runs to take the lead in the three-match series, but for their number three batsman, it was only a continuation of his run drought. “Yeah, sure. Definitely,” Compton said when asked if he thought his England career was on the line. “I don’t know the actual answer to that but you’ve got to score runs.” The grandson of the legendary Denis Compton has now scored 15, 26, 0, 19, 6 and 0 in last six test innings.
Motor Sport: The hundreds of thousands of spectators planning to attend Sunday’s 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 should arrive early and expect to go through added layers of security, officials warned. With the race sold out for the first time and nearly 400,000 fans expected at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, law enforcement agencies conceded that securing will be a massive challenge. The 2.5-mile oval, which could hold Churchill Downs, Yankee Stadium, the Rose Bowl, Roman Colosseum and Vatican City, presents unique challenges with spectators allowed to bring in coolers and bags.
Athletics: Olympic 100 metres champion Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce (picture) will return to competition at tomorrow’s Prefontaine Classic in Oregon after missing her three previous scheduled meetings with a toe injury, her coach has said. It will be Fraser-Pryce’s first individual race after a toe injury forced her to withdraw from a meeting in Jamaica on May 7 and Diamond League meetings in Shanghai and Rabat also this month.
Olympics: Olympic champion walker Jared Tallent has been awarded a gold medal in a mock ceremony in the wake of reports that dozens of athletes failed retrospective drug tests. The Australian was confirmed as the London Games’ 50km walk gold medallist in March after Russian Sergey Kirdyapkin was stripped of the title for doping. Tallent will be awarded the medal next month but put in some practice with a couple of friends in a video posted online. In it, Tallent stands on a step as a voice behind the camera announces him as “the winner, from Australia – Jared Tallent.”
Giro D’Italia: Home rider Matteo Trentin pipped Moreno Moser on the line to triumph on the 18th stage of the Giro D’Italia yesterday while the winner’s Etixx-QuickStep team-mate Gianluca Brambilla took third place on the race’s longest leg. Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk (Lotto NL-Jumbo) finished in the main pack to hold on to the overall leader’s pink jersey, and his three-minute advantage over Colombia’s Esteban Chaves with three days to go. The day belonged to Etixx-QuickStep’s Trentin who recorded his maiden Giro d’Italia stage victory.