Squash: Winning debut for Shelley Kitchen

Aucklander Shelley Kitchen's debut was easier than she expected as she dispatched Canada's Margo Green in the first round of the women's squash competiton.

Kitchen took the match 9-2, 9-4, 9-0 to set up an appointment with England's No 3 seed Cassie Jackman in the next round.

Rough passage An 800m stretch of ancient paving laid by Roman invaders about AD79 is likely to play a decisive role in determining the mountainbike medals.

The jagged section of cobblestones, nicknamed Snakebite Alley, wrought havoc at the British national championships last month, accounting for half the field of 60 through punctures or mechanical failure when the course at Rivington, 40km from Manchester, was used for the first time.

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