The biggest drug story in Olympic history. The biggest fish they ever caught. After his bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1984 Games (August 4), Canada's Ben Johnson decided he needed some extra ...

Formula One was agreed as a recognised formula. 1947 World drivers' championship formalised. It was to take three more years before the first championship race, although there were races under F1 ...

Jo Schlesser became the fourth driver to die during the 1968 season after getting trapped upside down in his blazing car. John Surtees had pronounced Honda's experimental RA302 car unsafe, but ...

Pete Sampras won the Wimbledon singles for the seventh and last time, equalling the record set way back in 1889 (8 July). Sampras had won three titles in a row before losing in the quarter-finals in ...

In track and field, that rarity of two Olympic gold medals for Britain on the same day. Dust off the old comparison with buses. After waiting years for Olympic gold, after enduring career-threatening ...

One of the great cheats in Olympic history, Boris Onishchenko, won Britain a gold medal. Consider his case for a second. In the modern pentathlon, he was world individual champion in 1971 before being ...

Another Jonny Wilkinson comeback. In his first match for England since the 2003 World Cup final, he scored in every way you can in a rugby match: try, conversion, penalty goal, drop goal. It made him ...

Nigel Mansell's first foray into the world of Indycar could hardly have gone better as he broke the track record at Phoenix Raceway in a Lola-Ford. Mansell tuned his back on F1 after winning the ...

2007 The day Marion Jones admitted in public what everyone privately knew. That she'd taken drugs before the 2000 Olympics, in which she won five medals (September 27). In a court in New York State, ...

The first fatality of a tragic weekend at Imola came when Roland Ratzenberger was killed after the front wing on his Simtek failed during qualifying and he flew off the track at high speed. He had ...

Formula One fans who are not enamoured with some of Ferrari's subsequent tactics will be permitted a wry smile at comments made by team boss Jean Todt who said that following the retirement of Michael ...

For two years Bernd Rosemeyer, who was born on this day in Lower Saxony, was one of the best drivers in the world driving one of the best cars (Auto Union). In his second grand prix at the Nürburgring ...