Olympics

Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya tells Krishnan Guru-Murhy about her experiences as an athlete with a difference in sex development, her tumultuous journey to the top of the athletics world, and what being a woman means to her, in this episode of Ways to Change the World.

Jim Walden, Grigory Rodchenkov’s lawyer, responds to accusations from the Russian state that the doping scandal was in fact all Dr Rodchenkov’s doing.

The Kremlin dismisses allegations that Russian athletes engaged in widespread, state-sponsored doping that sabotaged the London 2012 Olympic Games.

The doping allegations engulfing athletics came as a shock, Lord Coe has insisted, despite his influential position at the top of the sport’s governing body.

A World Anti-Doping Agency commission is recommending that Russia should be suspended from international athletics following doping claims.

Teenage cancer victim Stephen Sutton is honoured in the Queen’s birthday honours list, joining A-list celebrities and Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic champions.

Millie Knight, who carried the union jack at the Sochi Paralympics opening, is just 15, so taking part in skiing events for the visually impaired will give vital experience ahead of the 2018 Games.

A high-level performer in swimming and wheelchair basketball, 19-year-old Ben Sneesby is a gifted all-round sportsman. But skiing is his first love, and a medal at Sochi would be a career highlight.

James Whitley, 16, is ranked second in the world in slalom at under-18 level. Sochi should stand him in good stead as he pushes to become a medal prospect at the 2018 Paralympics in South Korea.

Visually impaired skier Kelly Gallagher and guide Charlotte Evans earn Great Britain their first-ever gold medal at the Sochi Winter Paralympics, taking the super-G title.

ParalympicsGB’s curling team – two men and two women, all from Scotland – will be hoping to emulate TeamGB’s medal achievements when they perform at Sochi this week.

Competing in five Alpine skiing events for the visually impaired, Kelly Gallagher is ParalympicsGB’s best chance for a medal at Sochi as the team goes for its first-ever gold.

Undeterred after shattering her spine during an event in 2006, Anna Turney made ParalympicsGB’s skiing team at Vancouver in 2010. At Sochi she hopes her experience will propel her to a podium place.

Ukraine sends out a symbolic solitary athlete, and Vladimir Putin shares a glass of champagne with the IOC president – this is what happened in Sochi.

After two disastrous performances in the last Winter Olympics at Vancouver, John Jackson and Britain’s four-man bobsleigh team will be hoping for greater success at Sochi this weekend.