Sport in brief

Cycling

Stephen Park, British Cycling’s performance director, has indirectly criticised the head of the sport’s world governing body, David Lappartient, for going public with his views on Chris Froome’s salbutamol case. Lappartient, the UCI president, had suggested Team Sky voluntarily suspend Froome while the case is continuing but Park said: “I think it’s incumbent upon us, and particularly those of us who work within governing bodies, to operate within the rules. If we don’t like the rules there is a perfectly good process in place for us to go about changing them.”

Golf

Tiger Woods will serve as one of the vice-captains in the United States Ryder Cup squad that will try to end a 25-year drought on European soil later this year. Jim Furyk, who will be the captain when United States defend the title against Europe in September at the Golf National on the outskirts of Paris, also announced 12-times PGA Tour winner Steve Stricker as a vice-captain.

Boxing

Nieky Holzken has replaced the flu-hit Jurgen Brahmer as Callum Smith’s opponent in Saturday’s Ali Trophy super middleweight semi-final in Nuremberg. George Groves, who is already through to the final, is expected to learn today the results of an MRI scan on the shoulder he dislocated in last weekend’s defeat of Chris Eubank Jnr.