ATHLETICS:Olympic 100 metres hurdles champion Brianna Rollins was handed a one-year suspension for failing to properly file whereabouts information for out-of-competition testing, the US Anti-Doping Agency said. Rollins, who led an American sweep of the podium at last August’s Rio Olympics, was unavailable for three doping tests during 2016, which constitutes a doping rule violation. The 25-year-old American did however complete eight out-of-competition tests in 2016 and did not test positive. She also passed all eight in-competition drug tests she took last year.

COMMONWEALTH GAMES:Britain asked its cities yesterday to draw up detailed plans to stage the 2022 Commonwealth Games, as it prepared a bid to take over the athletics event from dropped host Durban. The English cities of Liverpool and Birmingham have already expressed an interest – as have Sydney and Melbourne in Australia – in replacing Durban, which lost the right to hold the games following a trail of missed deadlines and financial problems. The British government would look at all bids before deciding whether to put in a formal bid later this year.

BASKETBALL, NBA:LeBron James engineered the NBA playoffs’ biggest second-half comeback as the Cleveland Cavaliers overturned a 25-point deficit at half-time to beat the Indiana Pacers 119-114 in Game Three of their series. James scored 41 points, pulled down 13 rebounds and dished out 12 assists as the reigning NBA champions beat the Pacers in Indianapolis to take a 3-0 lead in the series. It was his 17th career playoff triple-double. Only Magic Johnson, with 30, has more.

SAILING:An Italian father and son duo have sailed their way into the record books after taking just over 11 days to cross the Atlantic in a catamaran. Nico and Vittorio Malingri arrived in the Guadeloupe port town of Pointe-à-Pitre on Thursday, 11 days, one hour and nine minutes after leaving Dakar in Senegal, the World Sailing Speed Record Council said. The time was 10 hours, 16 minutes quicker than the previous mark set by French duo Benoit Lequin and Pierre-Yves Moreau in 2007.

Gymnastics:Ellie Downie was crowned Great Britain’s first European all-around champion after a thrilling finish in Cluj.The 17-year-old trailed Hungary’s Zsofia Kovacs throughout the competition before she nailed her final floor routine to pip her rival by just 0.333 of a point. It was a superb performance from Downie, who has also qualified for all four individual apparatus finals on today and Sunday.