Adam Peaty won gold and Jazz Carlin secured silver in the pool as Team GB found their first medals of the Rio Olympics on the evening of day two.
Russian track and field athletes will not be able to compete for their country at the upcoming Rio Olympics over claims the country ran a state-wide doping programme.
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) have denied rumours in the British press that the Olympics could return to London in 2016 amid reports that preparations in Rio are “critical on the ground”.
A German competitor at the Sochi Winter Olympics faces a hearing over an “anomalous” result in a drug test.
Stephen Fry has written an open letter to prime minister David Cameron and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) about the persecution of LGBT people in Russia