BRAD GILBERT: Playing a long match against Rafael Nadal can be like drinking eight pints of Guinness - you can feel it for quite a long time afterwards.

The 2019 Wimbledon Championships get underway on Monday. Sportsmail 's Brad Gilbert gives his view on the top contenders in both the men's and women's tournaments.

MATT LAWTON IN PARIS: Wiggins and Thomas believe Team Ineos will continue to dominate the Tour de France with a young Colombian cyclist who could turn out to be the greatest in history.

The 39-year-old was the first Briton to win the Tour de France in 2012 and took Olympic time trial gold just days later, but said he no longer wants to be defined by his sporting success.

He is one of a select few holding two of most coveted prizes in British sport - the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award and a knighthood - but Sir Bradley Wiggins 'smashed' them up.

Sir Bradley Wiggins, from London, has revealed he won't be pushing his 'very talented' son into becoming a professional cyclist - claiming that doing so to bask in the reflected glory would be 'cruel'.

CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: There are certain people whose position of trust is so great that lying in a professional capacity is unacceptable. And Freeman was acting in a professional capacity.

MIKE KEEGAN: Questions over the 'integrity and credibility' of former Team Sky head coach Shane Sutton will be used as part of Dr Richard Freeman's defence over the delivery of banned testosterone.

Sir Bradley Wiggins has launched a bizarre foul-mouthed tirade at Mickey Mouse during a recent trip to Disneyland Paris. In the clip, the Olympic legend can be seen shouting obscenities at the resort.

In a profanity-laden tirade from one of TV's most famous liaisons of science and learning, viewers were dealt a stark warning about the disastrous effects of climate change.

The Mrs Doutbfire actress seemed positively thrilled by her own civil disobedience, flashing a smile as she triumphantly raised her cuffed hands in the air.

A survey found that the Colorado River's flow has decreased by 20 percent over the past century and climate change is the cause of more than half of the loss, as less snow is falling in the region.

The UK's departure has left the bloc with a €75billion (£63billion) hole in its finances and the budget battle has exposed bitter divisions between EU members.

Former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd has given an explosive interview in which he claims Scott Morrison is 'unfit for office'. 

Cable channel Fox, has adapted HG Wells' classic sci-fi novel The War Of The Worlds, months after a BBC1 series. Nicole Lampert, reveals how the latest adaptation set in Britain and France differs.

The American bank said huge numbers of people may have to leave their countries because of rising sea levels or farmland left barren by sweltering heat.

The Handmaid's Tale author Margaret Atwood, 80, from Canada, told France24 that those who 'want to suppress women' are the same people who often 'want to pretend there is no climate crisis'.

Asking the prime minister if this is 'the sort of world' he wants for his daughters, the campaigners said the country had been hit by 'unprecedented' disasters.

Software giant Atlassian paid no income tax despite making more than $1billion in one financial year. Its co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes also has a penchant for preaching about climate change.

The Monkeyface prickleback, scientific name Cebidichthys violaceus, swims in the rocky waters off the West Coast of the USA.

Australian scientists say the fires are categorically linked to climate change and worsened by a year-long drought linked to climate change.

The Labour leader has been praised across the world for acting on issues of climate change, social justice, equality and how she handled the Christchurch terror attack and White Island tragedy.

Bristol City Council and Avon and Somerset Police cautioned the public not to 'underestimate the scale of this protest' in Bristol where Greta Thunberg is due to speak.

The government has effectively washed its hands of the battle for the £14billion Heathrow project after the Court of Appeal ruled that it had not yet met environmental standards.

A Russian scientist reveals the animals are feeding on each other in the Arctic as melting ice and fossil fuel extraction companies are forcing the animals out of their traditional hunting grounds.

The emergency service heroes of Australia's devastating bushfire crisis will have a moment in the spotlight during this year's Sydney Mardi Gras.

The Arora Group said it lodged appeal papers in the Supreme Court in a bid to 'put Heathrow expansion back on track' as the airport's owner also stated it will appeal.

Dr Liam Fox, former Secretary of State for International Trade, said the Prime Minister was making a serious error by allowing the legal system to hijack policy.

The Cairngorms Sleddog Centre, in Scotland, has decided to close its doors after 20 years in business as rising temperatures turn the once snow-covered mountains to a barren muddy landscape.

Married At First Sight star Connie Crayden has revealed she will be adopting rather than having biological children due to concerns over climate change.

At-risk areas include Surfers' Paradise in Queensland, St Tropez, Honolulu, Copacabana, the Costa del Sol and Weymouth, the study reveals.

Ivanka Trump publicly confirmed that she'd switched her voter registration from Democrat to Republican so she can vote for her father Donald Trump in the New York state primary next month.

Experts led from the University of Leeds found that drought and higher temperatures are reducing the amount of carbon dioxide being stored in trees.

Greenhouse gas emissions need to be slashed by more than 7 per cent a year for the next decade to avoid 'climate disaster', warns a new study of 10 years of UN climate reports

Climate change has revealed a Viking's missed shot that laid hidden in Norway's the Jotunheimen glacier, a glacier for 1,500 years. Made of iron, it is seven inches long and weighs just over an ounce.

Boffins at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation have developed FutureFeed, an additive made from a red seaweed called asparagopsis.

Orange Is The New Black star Yael Stone recently returned to Australia over concerns about the carbon footprint she was creating by travelling to the US to work. 

The Court of Appeal ruled that the £14billion Heathrow expansion project was illegal because the Government did not take its duty to curb climate change into account.

Climate neutrality by 2050 is unlikely for the UK without drastic technological and societal changes including limiting aviation and halving meat production, a report has found.

Researchers from Bangor University in Wales used computer models to discover that ecosystems were collapsing at a 'significantly faster rate' than first thought.

Two Russian pranksters Alexei Stolyarov and Vladimir Kuznetsov 'tricked' Prince Harry into believing they were climate change activist Greta Thunberg and her father Svante.

The world is 'way off track' for meeting targets to curb rising temperatures as the impacts of climate change increase, warned United Nations experts.

The Duke of Sussex was duped into believing he was speaking to 17-year-old environmentalist Greta, who told him she wanted to one day marry Prince George (pictured).

A damning report compiled by the UN's World Meteorological Organisation highlights 2019's increasing heat, accelerating sea level rises, and extreme weather.

The Russian pranksters who tricked Prince Harry into believing he was talking to Greta Thunberg have today warned they will release more audio.

The Duke of Sussex says that Greta Thunberg could outsmart US President Donald Trump, discusses changing mindsets on climate change and the possibility of the activist marrying Prince George.

Researcher from Rutgers University in New Jersey found that four times as many people will be impacted by heat stress by 2100 than are today.

Danish experts found that hyenas had undergone complex migrations across various continents, with African and Eurasian lineages being more distinct than thought.

Pashmina goats, source of the world's most valuable form of cashmere wool, are facing a growing threat from climate change as heavy snows kill the grasses they depend on as a food source.

The lonely vessel was captured as it passed the broken off remains of a glacier in Disko Bay, Greenland, as it headed towards Canada.