UP - Greg Rutherford - Greg Rutherford is unfortunately always likely to go down as the forgotten man after the Super Saturday of London 2012 after collecting a gold medal alongside the poster boy and girl Mo Farah and Jess Ennis. As well as sharing his gold medal success he also, until this week, shared the British long jump record with Chris Tomlinson. However, this week he leapt a huge 8.51m to claim the British crown for himself during an event at the Olympic Training Centre.
UP - Couch and Barrow - All the talk during this weeks World Series diving event was about Tom Daley and which medal he would win. Well it turns out the answer is none as he finished fifth. Instead it was the women's pair of Tonia Couch and Sarah Barrow who led the way for Britain, picking up a superb silver medal with 321.24. They weren't the only pair who leapt to success as Rebecca Gallantry and Hannah Starling narrowly took the bronze medal with a 302.88.
UP - Paddy Power - Paddy Power have become the ultimate trolls of the sporting world this year with a spat of hilarious and controversial publicity stunts and television adverts. After condemning David Moyes to unemployment last weekend with their Grim Reaper stunt they capitalised on the sacking, erecting a statue of Moyes outside of Anfield thanking him 'For Services to Liverpool Football Club'. They may be making enemies but at least they're doing it in humourous style.
UP - Rajiv Ouseph - It isn't often that the loose-wristed sport of badminton makes the sports ladder but this week Rajiv Ouseph collected Britain's first singles medal for four years when he last won a bronze medal. This time Ouseph was able to go one better, collecting a silver medal to go alongside his European Team Championship medal of the same colour from February. Perhaps in four years time he can go one better and get the gold.
UP - Broady Siblings - It's a rare occurrence that we get to applaud British tennis success but this week we got to congratulate not one, not two, but four British Champions for the first time since 2008. Whilst Eleanor Dean won in Antalya and Alexander Ward won in Heraklion it was the two Broady siblings that led the way. With Liam winning in Bournemouth and Naomi winning in Namangan it was a fantastic weekend for them and British tennis. Success clearly runs in the family.
DOWN - Giro d'Italia - For many casual fans the Giro d'Italia is considered the second largest annual cycling event behind the Tour de France. Yet British interest will be decidedly short for this years event after a number of key withdrawals this week. Both Chris Froome and Sir Bradley Wiggins have joined Mark Cavendish in skipping this event in order to prepare for the Tour. At least it leaves us guessing between Wiggins and Froome for the Tour.
DOWN - Emile Heskey - Don't you just hate it when the public start a petition to get you knighted and the government throw those plans back in your face? The problems of the common man ey? Well that's what happened this week to Emile Heskey as a petition set up by Daniel McCarthy to get the England legend knighted was turned down by the government. Come on Mr Cameron, I know its a knighthood and everything but where's your sense of humour!
DOWN - Wirral Cricket Club - As a cricket club, you know you're having a bad day at the office when you have more ducks than a Chinese restaurant. Wirral's week was absolute quackers as they bowed out of a Cheshire League Division Three fixture with just three runs. It gets even worse if only one of those comes from your batsman and the other two are from extras. At least they saw the funny side, tweeting some old legends for some coaching advice.
DOWN - Jose Mourinho - He used to be the man who just oozed charm. The man we all loved for his quirky but brilliant nature. Since his return though he has just become increasingly dislikable. Whether it was his permanent delusion that they weren't in the title race, or the way he accused West Ham of '19th Century football', before playing in an identical way on multiple occasions. His multiple touchline runs and celebrations have lacked class and, to me at least, he is no longer the 'Special One'.
DOWN - Rafael Nadal - Well, well, well. Mr Nadal seems to be tumbling down the ladder in recent weeks doesn't he? Another huge loss on clay to further dent the world number ones confidence as he fell this week to Nicolas Almagro in Barcelona for the first time since 2003, ending a 41 match unbeaten run. This was also the first time he has lost to his fellow Spaniard. With the French Open approaching rapidly Rafa needs something to change, and fast.
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