Cycling: Spanish veteran Alberto Contador will ride for the Trek-Segafredo team next year. The 33-year-old, who has won all three Grand Tours and finished fourth in the Vuelta last week, has spent five years with the Tinkoff outfit that will leave the World Tour at the end of this season. “I am thrilled about the opportunity that is in front of me. Trek-Segafredo is a very attractive and ambitious project that really inspires me,” Contador said. “We have a lot of goals and priorities in common. The big objective is to try and win the Tour de France.”

Paralympics: Jeanette Chippington has won the first Paralympics canoeing title in her sixth Games, 20 years after her prior two golds in the swimming pool. Canoeing is making its debut at the XV Paralympics in Rio and Chippington, a five-time Paralympian as a swimmer and gold medallist at Atlanta 1996, was victorious at Lagoa. The 46-year-old from Berkshire won the women’s KL1 event by 0.114 seconds from Germany’s Edina Muller.

Athletics: Spanish sprinter Bruno Hortelano is to have another operation on his right hand today in Barcelona, 10 days after undergoing reconstructive surgery on a serious injury suffered in a car crash in Madrid. Hortelano, who won gold in the 200 metres at the European Championships in Amsterdam in July, has been at Barcelona’s USP Institut University Dexeus hospital since Tuesday.