GYMNASTIC CHAMPS ...
The road to Rio continues for Olympic hopefuls at the British Gymnastics Championships on Sunday (BBC2 , 2.30pm), with the event in Liverpool part of the selection process for the squad that will be announced on 12 July. The standout battle will be between world champion Max Whitlock and world silver medallist Louis Smith on the pommel horse, but watch out for talented junior Giarnni Regini-Moran who could make the men’s floor final and challenge Olympians Dan Purvis and Sam Oldham. Commonwealth champion Claudia Fragapane will go up against world championship bronze-medal winner Amy Tinkler and Ellie Downie for the all-around title, while Becky Downie and Ruby Harrold are set to perform difficult routines on the asymmetric bars.
SWIMMING CHAMPS ...
There is further qualification and of an altogether more dramatic kind at the British Swimming Championships in Glasgow, with the results deciding the team for the Olympic Games. The championships run from Tuesday to Sunday and will be live on britishswimming.org, with 5 Live picking up selected sessions. This is an all or nothing selection process with the winner of the final of each Olympic event, subject to reaching the minimum time, going to Rio. For the men, world champions Adam Peaty and James Guy will be expecting to book their places, while in the women’s events, Siobhan-Marie O’Connor, who won her first medals at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, and Jazmin Carlin, a gold medallist in Glasgow, are likely to make the team.
PAVED CLASSIC ...
The famous cobblestones of Paris-Roubaix will take centre stage on Sunday with the seven hours of the race being broadcast in full for the first time (Eurosport, 9.15am). The “Hell of the North”, already a tough battle of attrition, features a new 50km uphill section of pavé as part of its 257km length. Peter Sagan will be attempting to pull off the Flanders-Roubaix double, having won the former last week. Fabian Cancellara is making his final appearance looking for a fourth win but the outsider to watch is Tom Boonen, aiming to make history at 35 years old by becoming the first rider to win on the cobbles five times.
WEIGHTLIFTING DECIDER ...
Another crucial Olympic event as the Team GB weightlifters head to the European Championships in Norway needing to claim ranking points in order to earn a spot for a British woman (from Monday, Eurosport). The team did not score enough at the 2014 and 2015 world championships and Zoe Smith , who seta British record at the London Games, and Sarah Davies will be trying to secure the place.
SUPERSTAR DJ ...
Having made the Rack Pack film celebrating snooker, BBC iPlayer’s fascination with the game continues with the release on Friday of the unlikely mash-up of Steve Davis and techno. The fly-on-the-wall documentary Steve Davis: Snookerstar DJ follows the player as he prepares to hit the decks at the Bloc Festival in Minehead. He is joined in this unlikely adventure by the fascinating Kavus Torabi, guitarist with world’s finest prog-punk outfit the Cardiacs. Back in reality the World Championship begins at the Crucible on Saturday (BBC/Eurosport).
