Road Cycling

Jai Hindley took out the Giro D'Italia and has become the second Australian ever to win a grand tour event, joining Cadel Evans (2011 Tour de France).

The challenging 2022 Giro time trial event is contested across three countries, 21 stages and 3,445.6km which includes 50,580 metres of climbing.

The win, by one minute and 18 seconds over Richard Carapaz, carries extra meaning for Jai who finished second at the event in 2020.

Rugby 7s

There's been an exciting breakthrough for the Aussie men's sevens team as we near the end of the 2021-22 World Rugby Sevens Series, as they became London Sevens Champions.

Our Trans-Tasman rival was the last hurdle to overcome in the final, with the Aussies prevailing 19-14.

The Aussie men are sitting second overall on the World Series season standings with 122 points, just behind South Africa (124 points) with one more tournament left in Los Angeles in August.

In the London quarter-finals the Blitzboks raced out to a 17-0 lead, but the Aussies clawed back the deficit and prevailed 21-17.

Next up for the men's and women's sevens sides is the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham from 28 July to 8 August.

Basketball

The Opals have split the opening two games with Japan in their best of three friendly series.

The first game on Friday night was a close contest and finished in a 72-66 Australian victory, with 19-year-old Jade Melbourne the energiser of a fourth-quarter comeback on both ends of the court.

Japan adjusted in the second game on Sunday and held on in another tight one (56-55).

This series marks the first opportunity the Opals have had to play on home soil this year, as they ramp up their preparations for the 2022 FIBA Women's World Cup in Australia.

Game three is set to be hosted at the Newcastle Entertainment Centre on Tuesday night at 7:30pm AEST, after the first two games were held at Sydney Olympic Park's Quaycentre.

BMX

Logan Martin has come away from the first International Extreme Sports Festival (FISE) Freestyle Park World Cup event of the season in second place.

The Olympic champion scored 94.50 in the final at Montpellier, France which was only behind Japan's Rimu Nakamura (95.30).

This week's event marks 10 years since Logan made his World Series debut in 2012.

Canoe Sprint

The Australian Canoe Sprint team has added to the five International Canoe Federation (ICF) World Cup medals won last weekend, as the circuit headed to Poznan, Poland.

Jackson Collins was the best performer in Poland, winning silver in the men's K1 500m. It was tight at the top, as Jean van der Westhuyzen was only +1.05 seconds behind the leader and finished fourth.

Jackson also teamed up with Aly Bull and together they achieved bronze in the mixed K2 500m.

The team will return home to Australia to sharpen their preparation for the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Canada, set to be held from 3-7 August.

Athletics

Oliver Hoare has gone one better than last week's silver over 1500m at the Diamond League's Birmingham stop, this time earning second place in the Prefontaine Classic.

At the Oregon event, home of the 2022 World Athletics Championships in July, Oliver posted a Personal Best time of 50.65 seconds and was only beaten by the 1500m Olympic champion Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR).

Back home the Australian 4x100m U20 record has been broken by Lachlan Kennedy, Calab Law, Connor Bond and Aidan Murphy.

They are gearing up for the World U20 Championships to be held in Columbia this August.

Tennis

A week after winning the Strasbourg doubles Daria Saville was the best performing Aussie in the Roland Garros singles draw.

At the clay court Grand Slam she significantly outperformed her WTA tour singles ranking (127th), with her biggest scalp being two-time Grand Slam champion Petra Kvitova 6-4 6-2 in the second round.

Dasha's run to the third round at the French Open, her best at a Grand Slam since Wimbledon 2018, came to an end against world No.59 Martina Trevisan (ITA) but it has improved her singles ranking to 103.

Gymnastics

Aussie artistic gymnasts have had an ideal tune up for Commonwealth Games competition, performing a clean sweep of the Oceania Continental Championships.

In the women's team Breanna Scott, Emily Whitehead, Kate McDonald, Lucy Stewart and Olena Edmeades combined for a score of 156.029.

On the men's side - represented by Clay Stephens, Heath Thorpe, James Bacueti, Jesse Moore and Mitchell Morgans - Australia overall outscored New Zealand 245.262 to 240.294, having posted the best results in four of the six apparatus (floor, rings, high bar and pole vault).

These results have given Australia entry into the men's and women's Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at Liverpool in October.

In Italy, Australians Ethan McGuinness and Jack Hemmings have taken out gold and bronze respectively in the men's tumbling final at the International Gymnastics Federation (FIG) Trampoline World Cup.

Breanah Cauchi also came away with a medal, bronze in the women's tumbling final.