Paralympic Games: Cundy rant a YouTube hit with GB team

Butterworth won C4/5 one-kilometre time-trial silver last Friday when Cundy was denied a restart and the chance to defend his Paralympic title by race officials, sparking an expletive-laden rant. Cundy later apologised, vowed to ride on to Rio de Janeiro to reclaim his title, and has begun to joke about the incident. Butterworth, who apologised after hitting the headlines for the wrong reasons on the eve of the Games for criticising the Beijing display of the athletics team, said: “We’ve had a good laugh in the team about it and the YouTube clip is a favourite. It is quite funny, you can only laugh about it. I was there at the time in the pits and to see it unfold... I had an experience in the media a few days before that and I was sitting there going ‘right, I’ve learnt my lesson and I wouldn’t be doing that’. I’m quite glad it happened to someone else, rather than myself.”

• London mayor Boris Johnson was put on the spot by the North Greenwich Arena announcer when he dropped in to watch some of the action in Great Britain’s women’s wheelchair basketball match against China yesterday. Boris appeared on the big screen just as the entertainment crew were starting their ‘Dance Cam’, and the mayor had little choice but to offer the crowd a quick jig. Whether LMFAO’s ‘Sexy And I Know It’ would have been his first choice, we’ll never know. He made a swift exit after his moment in the spotlight.

• Nobody should doubt that David Weir is becoming a superstar. At one point on Wednesday night, the wheelchair racer was the number one autosearch option for David on a popular search engine, ahead of Beckham, Bowie and Lloyd. In further bad news for the Conservative party, who have seen George Osborne and Theresa May booed when presenting medals at the Olympic Stadium this week, the Prime Minister did not even feature.