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A SUMMER sport for all? Despite the Cricket World Cup and a home Ashes series, not too many will be picking up bat, ball and stumps for a knockabout.
If anything gets us off the sun loungers, it’s likely to be a bike. Cycling’s temporary success in boosting numbers on two wheels coincided with unprecedented British cyclists’ success at both the Olympics and Le Tour.
How to Ride a Bike by Chris Hoy handily combines both, all the glamour of a six-time Olympic gold medallist with a how-to-guide for those who’d like to cycle both further and faster.
Governing body investigates how to reduce waste and carbon emissions from Olympic equipment as the sport confronts its environmental impact, writes JENNIFER McDERMOTT
Still the only black man to win the US Open tennis title, a statue of the legendary champion, Arthur Ashe, is now the only one remaining on Monument Avenue in his Richmond, Virginia hometown, where confederate leaders of the Civil War were also once displayed, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER