SPEEDWAY: Adam Ellis top-scored with 9+4 points as Premiership leaders Ipswich came from behind to stuff King’s Lynn 57-33 on Thursday evening.

The aggregate point win moved them four points clear of second-placed Sheffield, who were held 45-45 by Leicester but took the super heat tie-breaker.

Fredrik Lindgren bagged 11+1 points as bottom of the table Birmingham suffered their third successive last heat defeat in a 46-44 loss at Oxford.

CYCLING: World champion Mathieu van der Poel is among the favourites for the men’s 274km Olympic road race that rolls out of Paris on Saturday morning.

The start-list also includes last year’s runner-up Wout van Aert, 2024’s time-trial gold medallist Remco Evenepoel and Tour de France green jersey winner Biniam Girmay.

Ecuador’s reigning Olympic champion Richard Carapaz, this year’s Tour de France King of the Mountains, was not selected.

HOCKEY: Britain’s women play their final group game against Argentina tomorrow, having already secured their spot in the Olympic quarter-finals.

The British men are also through to the last eight, which begin on Sunday.

Britain’s women have won a hockey medal at the last three Olympics, picking up gold in Rio and bronzes at Tokyo and London. The men last tasted success when champions at Seoul in 1988.

MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: National Rugby League table-toppers Melbourne host St George Illawarra tomorrow, looking to extend their four point lead over defending champions Penrith.

Prop James Fisher-Harris and full-back Daine Laurie are both out injured for Penrith who are not in action until Sunday morning when they take on Newcastle. 

Tomorrow’s other games see Gold Coast up against Brisbane and the South Sydney Rabbitohs at Cronulla.