Cycling: Treble Tour de France stage winner Sylvain Chavanel will make his Tour of Britain debut next month, adding to an already strong line-up for the nine-day race. Frenchman Chavanel, who rides for the Swiss IAM team, will be joined by team-mates Jerome Pineau and Australian Heinrich Haussler. The British stage race has grown in strength in recent years and now attracts all the top pro teams, including Team Sky, Omega Pharma Quick-Step and Tinkoff Saxo.

Tennis: Second seed Petra Kvitova booked her place in the semi-finals of the Connecticut Open with a comfortable straight sets win over Barbora Zahlavova-Strycova. The reigning Wimbledon champion continued her preparations for the US Open with a 6-4 6-1 victory. Magdalena Rybarikova also progressed to the final four after beating Alison Riske 7-5 0-6 6-4 after weathering a comeback by the American in the second set.

Athletics: Canadian athlete Dylan Armstrong will be awarded the shot put bronze from the 2008 Beijing Olympics as a result of a lifetime doping ban handed to Andrei Mikhnevich, of Belarus, the International Olympic Committee said. Almost six years after finishing fourth by a single centimetre at the Beijing Games, Armstrong was finally confirmed as the third- place finisher when the IAAF suspended Mikhnevich for life following a second doping offence and annulled his results dating back to the 2005 Helsinki world championships.

Golf: Bo van Pelt chipped in for eagle at the par-five 17th hole for a 65 that pushed him past a crowd of eight players and into the first-round lead at The Barclays on a day when Rory McIlroy played poorly. The Northern Irishman, winner in his last three starts including the British Open and PGA Championship, shot a three-over-par 74 and trailed Van Pelt by nine strokes.