Great Britain's hopes of reaching the next Winter Olympics were dashed on Sunday when they were defeated 4-1 by their old rivals Hungary in a winner takes all clash.

British Cycling was subjected to a UK Sport review into the culture of its elite programme in 2016, but the sheer scope and breadth of this look into UK Athletics is thought to be unprecedented.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Alex Partridge won silver at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and bronze at London 2012. The 39-year-old now tells Sportsmail about his battle with depression.

Laura Lambert and Chief Sports Writer Martin Samuel are shortlisted for the Hugh McIlvanney Award for Sports Journalist of the Year.

If Laura Kenny wanted to forget about the injury she was told would rule her out of the Tokyo Olympics, her two-year-old son had other ideas.

The four-man, 4km event is one of Team GB's most successful in any Olympic sport - they won gold at Beijing 2008, London 2012 and Rio 2016. Veteran Ed Clancy was the only ever-present in those teams. 

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: New levels of bemusement were attained with this week's revelations of how he changed his story about an L-carnitine infusion to USADA investigators.

The coronavirus has rocked the sporting world this week with most taking measures to ensure that fans nor players are affected by the global pandemic that is spreading across the world.

World champion Mads Pedersen of Denmark has pulled out of the Paris-Nice race before the start of Saturday's final stage after his country asked its nationals to return amid the coronavirus outbreak.

The Premier League Darts season has already thrown up plenty of surprises as it nears the half-way mark of the 2020 campaign. Here, Sportsmail takes a closer look at what we've learned.

Sportsmail is shadowing seven British stars from a variety of sports as they prepare for Tokyo. Tom Bosworth takes the spotlight today. Here's an update on the other six...

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Race walker Tom Bosworth stands to miss out on as much as £20,000 this spring due to events that have been called off because of coronavirus.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Daley Thompson doesn't break people and crush souls these days unless he absolutely has to. As it happens, he had to on the morning we met.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Roman Abramovich, Gary Neville and anyone else who has had the decency to do what they can to help a few others in a unique time of crisis deserve enormous credit.

The World Snooker Championship is the latest major sporting event to be postponed because of the coronavirus. Judd Trump was due to start the defence of his title at the Crucible on April 18.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Sir Steve Redgrave has told Sportsmail that delaying the Olympic Games until the summer of 2021 'makes a lot of sense'.

EXCLUSIVE BY DAVID COVERDALE: Ed Clancy has decided to delay his retirement by another year in a bid to win a historic fourth Olympic gold medal at the age of 36.

The legendary road race is scheduled to start in Nice on June 27 but it will now either be postponed or scrapped altogether, with a decision expected later this week.

The Scot, a two-time winner of the World Championships at Ally Pally, was scheduled to take part in the event from the comfort of his own home in Somerset, but is now unable to.

O'Sullivan is a five-time world champion and his dad was spreading the word from when he was just a small child, including to one of the country's greatest ever footballers.

The Tour de France is in doubt once again after French prime minister Edouard Philippe said there could be no mass sporting events in the country until September.

EXCLUSIVE BY RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Then known as Ann Packer, she took gold in the 800m as Sportsmail caught up with one of Britain's sporting heroes at her lovely home in Congleton, Cheshire.

Ebdon famously defeated Stephen Hendry 18-17 to win the world championship in 2002, and also triumphed in the 2006  UK Championship in one of his other eight ranking event wins.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY DAVID COVERDALE: Going from globe-trotting gymnast to stay-at-home dad was not part of Max Whitlock's career plan for at least another four years.

Mark Wahlberg revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show that his children misinterpreted his hint about getting a new puppy and thought he invited Kim Kardashian and Kanye West to dinner.

Kim Kardashian was at her wits' end on Monday, after her youngest daughter, Chicago, two, stained her expensive white sofa.

The Keeping Up with the Kardashians star is currently studying to become a lawyer, and has now said that following in the footsteps of her late father Robert Kardashian has always been a dream.

Kim Kardashian flaunted her famous curves in a mini-skirt and crop top in sultry selfie that some followers suspect may not be completely authentic.

McDonald's debuted a new commercial called 'Famous Orders.' It includes Kim's order at the chain: a burger, fries, a six-piece nugget with honey, apple pie, and a vanilla shake.

The 39-year-old reality star and her sister Kourtney have a habit of rocking the kind of floor-length black coats and sunglasses that would appear in the Wachowskis' $1.6B-grossing sci-fi trilogy

Amber Rose has paid homage to both her children by getting their names tattooed on her forehead, in images first seen on social media on Friday.

The 39-year-old reality star opened up about the scary experience during an appearance on attorney Laura Wasser's podcast All's Fair which was released on Tuesday.

Kim Kardashian treated her 160 million Instagram followers to an eye-popping tour of her children's playroom on Wednesday. She and Kanye West share North, Saint, Chicago and Psalm.

Last week, Kim Kardashian gave her 160 million Instagram followers a behind-the-scenes look at her children's playroom - and fans were shocked to see how incredibly neat and orderly it is.

Kim posed on a red 1970 Lancia Stratos HF Zero concept car: 'How crazy 2 years ago I posted this one of a kind concept car ... and now I shot with the same car for my new @skims shoot!'

The curvaceous 39-year-old beauty posed in the desert for a striking photo shoot looking every inch a golden goddess.

Kim Kardashian eventually credited five-year-old rapper ZaZa for the song North West rapped over at the Yeezy Paris show after her parents (politely) called Kim out over it on Instagram.

She garnered much attention on Sunday, which she stepped out in no less than three exclusive latex ensembles from Balmain during Paris Fashion Week.

Critics of Kanye West's quirky choice of invitation have been slammed after it turned out the eggs included in his Yeezy Paris Fashion Week invite were fake.

Kim Kardashian has shared several images to promote the re-stock of her Fits Everybody. And on Thursday the 39-year-old TV staple posted another alluring image.

On Tuesday, TMZ reported that all events scheduled to take place at the 50,000 seat ballpark in New York's the Bronx have been canceled for the next two months.

The legendary hip-hop star, 42, opened up his wallet and donated money to two non-profit organizations that help feed people in need, according to Access Online.

On the latest episode of Antiques Roadshow, the husband of Kanye's first cousin appeared with a collection of artwork done by the rapper when he was just 17-years-old.

The 42-year-old fashion designer showed off a pair of unreleased bright yellow Yeezy boots while heading to his office in Calabasas, California on Tuesday morning.

As the rain poured, Kanye West shielded himself with a massive black jacket outside his office in Calabasas, California on Thursday. 

Kanye West has reportedly purchased his childhood home in Chicago's South Shore neighborhood, just a week after Forbes Magazine named him as a billionaire.

The singer, 32, has opened up about the bizarre feud she got in with the rap legend after telling one of their mutual friends that the 42-year-old hip-hop star is 'weird'.

Stephen Maguire produced what could well be the most astonishing shot in snooker history only to have his celebrations cut short by a cruel twist.

The Masters has been postponed with the world of sport rocked by the ongoing spread of coronavirus, its organisers have confirmed. No new date has been announced.

OLIVER HOLT - CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: In the midst of all this, in the midst of the lockdown and my dad in a care home no one can visit any more and my mum reaching for her shopping.