Great Britain missed out on Para-cycling medals on the third day of action at the Road World Championships in Zurich, Switzerland.

Chris McDonald and pilot Adam Duggleby placed fifth in the men’s B individual time trial – two minutes 09.33 seconds behind Dutch champions Tristan Bangma and Patrick Bos, and 1:18.22 off the podium places.

Paralympic medallist Archie Atkinson, 20, was sixth in the men’s C4 individual time trial, 1:25.07 behind bronze, while Will Bjergfelt missed out on the medals by 1:01.07 in sixth in the C5 event.

Meanwhile, Ben Wiggins – the 19-year-old son of 2012 Tour de France winner Bradley – placed 18th in the men’s Under-23 individual time trial.

Team-mate Josh Charlton was 20th, as Ireland’s Darren Rafferty finished sixth – 1:01.52 behind Spanish champion Ivan Romeo Abad and 20.84 secs off the podium places.

Debutants Dylan Sage and Finlay Tarling finished 12th and 24th respectively in the men’s junior individual time trial, in which France’s Paul Seixas triumphed.

There are 55 Great British athletes taking part in the first combined UCI Road and Para-cycling Road World Championships from 21-29 September, with most races being shown on the BBC Sport website and app.

London Broncos owner David Hughes has confirmed he has put the club up for sale after 27 years at the helm.

In a brief statement posted on the club’s website, external, Hughes wrote, “After 27 eventful years, of which we spent 20 years in the Super League, I have decided on behalf of myself and the Hughes family that we will step down at the end of the season.

“We will make every effort to facilitate anyone interested in taking over the club to lead it through the Championship.”

Despite starting the season knowing they faced relegation because of the IMG’s new grading system, Broncos’ entertaining performances have outperformed expectations.

They finished second in Super League during Hughes’ first full year at the club, before a memorable journey to the 1999 Challenge Cup final which ended in defeat against Leeds Rhinos at Wembley.

London returned to Super League this year following a four-year stay in the Championship, after beating Toulouse Olympique in the Million Pound Game last October.

Following their bruising 54-0 defeat on Friday at Warrington Wolves, Broncos finished bottom of Super League on points difference below Hull FC.

World number one Judd Trump and Mark Allen, ranked third, won their first-round ties.

Trump showed the fine form which has seen him win the Shanghai Masters and Saudi Arabia Masters this season as he saw off Robert Milkins 4-1 in just 50 minutes.

A break of 104, the 999th century of his career, put him 1-0 ahead and he followed that up with an 81 in the next to lead 2-0.

Milkins replied with a 62 to reduce his deficit, but Trump responded with runs of 74 and 81 to progress, the latter break comprising 11 reds and 10 blacks before he broke down.

Allen came through a hard-fought encounter with Gary Wilson, the world number three from Northern Ireland triumphing 4-3 to book a meeting with Aaron Hill in the second round, the Irishman having beaten Ding Junhui 4-3.

Allen, the 2022 runner-up, took the first two frames against the 2021 losing finalist but breaks of 78 and 50 helped Wilson draw level, before Allen won a drawn-out fifth, which lasted almost an hour.

A run of 97 drew the Englishman level but Allen came out on top in the decider to advance to round two.

World champion Kyren Wilson, Mark Selby and Shaun Murphy are among the other players in action later on Monday.

Conor McGregor is anything but an owner in name only when it comes to his investment in BKFC.

The former two-division UFC champion—who became a part owner in BKFC back in April—is so serious about his passion for bare-knuckle fighting that he’s promising to eventually take the gloves off and set foot in the ring for a fight himself. With only two fights remaining on his current UFC contract and the chance to act as his own promoter, BKFC president and founder David Feldman is taking McGregor’s declaration seriously.

“Unless he’s the best salesman in the world, the talks that we’ve had it’s like ‘I’m fighting here,’” Feldman told MMA Fighting. “I’m like yeah, OK. He [said] ‘I’m fighting here.’

“I go, ‘Why wouldn’t you fight here?’ Because you have equity in the company and if you fight here, you’ll probably make more money than anywhere else in the world because of what it’s going to do for the company. So I truly believe what you said — I think 100 percent he fights here.”

The UFC recently announced that Michael Chandler would fight Charles Oliveira in November after he spent nearly two years waiting for a matchup against McGregor, which prompted the Irish superstar to suggest a co-promotion with BKFC so he could get back in action sooner rather than later.

While there’s no doubting McGregor’s immense drawing power and the influence he holds with UFC, Feldman knows there’s no chance UFC would ever co-promote with him but it’s not because there isn’t mutual respect between the promotions.

“The UFC doesn’t need us,” Feldman said. “They don’t need us. We need to [co-promote] with them, they don’t need to [co-promote] with us, which would be phenomenal — they’re not going to do it. If they do Conor McGregor with anything, he don’t need to [co-promote] with us.”

That means McGregor would need to leave UFC to fight for BKFC, but Feldman has stopped doubting his new business partner after seeing his commitment over these past few months.

McGregor could have easily injected some cash into BKFC, called himself a co-owner and then faded into the background after grabbing a few headlines. Feldman says that interpretations of McGregor’s involvement couldn’t be further from the truth.

“He’s been unbelievable,” Feldman said about McGregor. “He’s really been a partner so far. Blew away my expectations. Doing the interviews, he did the post-fight press conference, he’s meeting the guys. He’s going over and hugging the fighters and telling them, ‘Come on let’s do this!’ He’s sitting there ringside cheering for them. He’s posting all the time about it. He’s all in.

“We had a great talk this weekend, it was just me and him talking and I said to him ‘I don’t know if you really believe me, but this is going to be the biggest thing in the world in a few years, there’s nothing that’s going to be bigger than this, trust me.’ He goes, ‘It’s going to be two years.’”

Considering that just about everything McGregor touches turns to gold, it’s tough to imagine he won’t find a way to build BKFC into a powerhouse that will go toe-to-toe with just about any other combat sports organization out there.

Feldman is realistic when it comes to size and scale because he knows the UFC is a promotional juggernaut that won’t be toppled. Still, he admits that the exponential growth of BKFC over these past few years has blown away even his biggest expectations and he expects McGregor to help them grow even bigger in the future.

“[Conor] sees the vision,” Feldman said. “Are we ever going to be the biggest combat sport in the world? Probably not honestly but we’re definitely going to be one of the biggest. Absolutely. The numbers just keep going up.”

Former Worcestershire all-rounder Alex Hepburn has been banned from cricket-related activity in England and Wales for 10 years.

Hepburn was jailed for five years for rape in 2019 and released in 2021.

The 28-year-old’s ban is backdated to the point when he was released from prison.

Hepburn, now living in Australia, was found guilty at a retrial in 2019 on charges relating to an attack at a flat in Worcester in 2017 and his conviction was upheld at the Court of Appeal in 2020.

The attack on 1 April 2017 took place on the first night of a sexual conquest competition with team-mates, which he helped set up on a WhatsApp group.

The Australian-born Hepburn was charged by the Cricket Regulator with two breaches of the 2017 England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) Directives earlier this year.

The first related to his arrest and subsequent criminal conviction, and the second to his participation in an offensive WhatsApp group.

Hepburn did not respond to the charge letter and the independent Cricket Discipline Commission (CDC) – the body that hears disciplinary cases in the professional domestic game in England and Wales – reached its decision in his absence.

In addition to serving a 10-year ban, Hepburn is also required to undergo appropriate professional treatment for the issues leading to his criminal conviction and undertake appropriate training and education courses before resuming any cricket related activity.

Team-mates Joe Clarke and Tom Kohler-Cadmore were charged with bringing the game into disrepute by the ECB in 2019 after being named as members of a WhatsApp group which came to light during Hepburn’s trial.

Neither Clarke nor Kohler-Cadmore were charged with any criminal offence.