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Cycling: Mark Cavendish (picture, right) is due to ride his first Track World Championships in seven years next month after being included in the Great Britain team for the London event. The 30-year-old Manxman is to ride the six-discipline omnium in which he is targeting a place at the Rio Olympics. Cavendish, 26 times a Tour de France stage winner, will also partner Bradley Wiggins in the two-man Madison, British Cycling announced yesterday. The pair won the event at the 2008 Track World Championships in Manchester, but finished ninth at the Olympic Games in Beijing later that year.

Rugby Union: Maverick England flyhalf Danny Cipriani is returning to his former club Wasps in a bid to revive his international career. The 28-year-old will leave Sale Sharks at the end of the season to join Wasps, a more high-profile club where he will hope to get the chance to impress new England coach Eddie Jones. “I’m excited about returning to Wasps next season. For me, it really does feel like coming home,” Cipriani said. A gifted and exciting attacking player but whose defensive qualities have been questioned, Cipriani has played 14 times for England and was named in their provisional World Cup squad last year.

Tennis: World number 11 John Isner crashed out in the first round of the Rio Open, losing in three sets to Guido Pello. The big-serving American had staved off two match points in the second set but then went on to miss two of his own in a 7-6 5-7 7-6 win for the Argentinian. Pello, unseeded in the tournament, had to face 31 aces from Isner, but did enough in the final set tie-breaker to earn a second career win against top-20 opposition. The duo were on court for just over three hours, but the game was delayed for four hours after the first set due to heavy rain, meaning no other matches were possible on the opening day of the tournament.

Snooker: Ronnie O’Sullivan might not have threatened another maximum but he fired three centuries in four frames as he swept into the last 32 of the Welsh Open yesterday. O’Sullivan, who turned down his chance of a 147 in his previous round win over Barry Pinches, notched breaks of 110, 90, 112 and 102 to see off China’s Tian Pengfei 4-0. Defending champion John Higgins also whitewashed Sam Baird 4-0, while Judd Trump went through with a 4-1 win over Rory McLeod. But Shaun Murphy was forced to fight all the way for a 4-3 win over Mitchell Mann.

Motor Racing: The electric Formula E series plans to race in central Berlin in May because last year’s venue at the city’s disused Tempelhof airport is now being used to shelter asylum seekers, organisers said. Formula E said in a statement that the new layout, which remains subject to approval by city authorities, will wind around Strausberger Platz towards Alexanderplatz with the pitlane on Karl-Marx-Allee. “It is fantastic news that we have been able to find a new location to race in Berlin,” said Formula E chief executive Alejandro Agag, whose series has important German partners including DHL and BMW.