WOMEN’S ATHLETICS: Elaine Thompson-Herah will not defend her Olympic 200 metres title this summer after pulling out of the Jamaican national trials.

The five-time Olympic champion was the first woman to win back-to-back sprint doubles after picking up the golds at Tokyo and Rio, and was also part of the winning 4x100 metres relay team in 2020.

She is second behind Florence Griffith-Joyner as the fastest ever female athlete.

MEN’S RUGBY LEAGUE: Hull Kingston Rovers will move level on points with Wigan and St Helens at the top of the Super League if they can continue their good form with a win at struggling Castleford tomorrow evening.

Reigning champions Wigan will again be without the injured Jai Field, who damaged a hamstring two weeks ago, when they play bottom club London Broncos on Friday before St Helens travel to Salford on Sunday.

MEN’S CRICKET: The remaining teams at the Twenty 20 World Cup are now scheduled to play on every other day as the Super Eights tournament kicks in.

Following England’s Group Two match with the West Indies on St Lucia in the early hours of Thursday morning, Group One gets under way when Afghanistan take on India in Barbados the afternoon.

Australia face Bangladesh in the other Group One game later tomorrow night.

WOMEN’S CYCLING:

Demi Vollering claimed her third win of the four stages to seal an emphatic victory at the Tour of Switzerland on Tuesday.

The Dutch rider finished the race almost a minute-and-a-half clear of second-placed Neve Bradbury with Elisa Longhi Borgini in third.

Becky Storrie was the highest-placed British rider in 41st. Vollering has also won this year’s La Vuelta, tour of Burgos and Basque Itzulia.