ON THIS DAY: 2008

Controversial Dwain Chambers won silver for Britain in the 60 metres at the World Indoor Championships in Valencia.

2001: The Cheltenham Festival was abandoned in the wake of the footand-mouth crisis.

2014: Former British tennis No.1 Elena Baltacha revealed she had liver cancer. She died two months later. 2015: Newcastle’s Papiss Cisse and Manchester United’s Jonny Evans were given suspensions of seven and six matches for spitting.

2016: Maria Sharapova announced she had tested positive for the banned substance meldonium at January’s Australian Open.

2017: Team Sky’s Sir Dave Brailsford said “mistakes were made” by Team Sky relating to anti-doping and medical procedures, but that “there is a fundamental difference between process failures and wrongdoing”.