SPEEDWAY: Premiership table-toppers Ipswich returned to winning ways on Thursday night as they raced to a 49-41 victory at King’s Lynn.

Ipswich are four points clear of second-placed Sheffield, who have a game in hand, after they came from behind to see off Oxford 50-40.

Sam Masters top-scored with 13 points as Leicester improved their play-off chances by thumping Belle Vue 55-35 to earn an aggregate point win.

MEN’S CYCLING: Iranian-born Amir Ansari representing the Refugee Team will be the first cyclist down the ramp at tomorrow’s Olympic time-trial for men.

With defending champion Primoz Roglic out injured World champion Remco Evenepoel is favourite to take the title on a flat 32.4km course around Paris.

Britain will be represented by  Aberaeron-born European champion and World championship bronze medallist Josh Tarling.

MEN’S CRICKET: Suryakumar Yadav will captain world champions India as they continue their intensive Twenty20 campaign with two matches against Sri Lanka in Pallekele over the weekend.

Yadav averages over 44 and is ranked as the world’s second-best batsmen behind Australia’s Travis Head in the short-format game.

Charith Asalanka replaces Wanindu Hasaranga as Sri Lanka’s captain after they failed to make the super-8s at the recent world cup.

WOMEN’S FOOTBALL: Mallory Swanson scored twice as the USA beat Zambia 3-0 in their opening Olympics fixture on Thursday.

The game also marked ex-Chelsea boss Gemma Hayes’s first competitive match in charge of the Americans who meet Germany, 3-0 winners over Australia, in their next fixture on Sunday.

The USA were bronze medallists in Tokyo and have won four of the last seven women’s Olympics football tournaments.