Swimming: Women's 400m Freestyle Final
Aquatics Centre, 8.15pm
If Michael Phelps hadn't been in Beijing, then Rebecca Adlington's astonishing gold in the women's 400m freestyle, overhauling her US rival Katie Hoff with a phenomenal final 50 metres, would have been the enduring swimming image from the 2008 Games. Sunday sees the now 23-year-old attempt to defend her title; we shall be tuning in to see if she can defeat world champion Federica Pellegrini and Camille Muffat, the fastest girl in the world this year – we suggest you do likewise.
Sailing: Men's Finn Race 1
Weymouth & Portland, 12pm
Ben Ainslie's bid to emulate Matthew Pinsent as a goldmedallist at four consecutive Olympic Games begins down off the south coast on Sunday lunchtime. Granted, sailing isn't the most riveting spectator sport in the world; heck, it's possibly one of the worst – but this could be history in the making, and the early races will probably be the ones to watch. By the time Ainslie and his fellow Finn competitors get to the medal race on August 5, gold could already be his.
Cycling 12pm
It's the turn of the girls to have a crack at two laps of Box Hill, as defending champion Nicole Cooke and Lizzie Armistead go for gold in the women's road race. The main danger, so we believe, is two-time Giro d'Italia winner Marianne Vos of the Netherlands.
Basketball 2.30pm
A first chance to see LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Kevin Durant and the rest, as the United States get their Olympic carnival under way against... well, it doesn't really matter who the hell it is, does it? France, it says here – as if anyone will notice.
Archery 3pm
What, more archery? You bet – this time the quarter finals of the women's team competition, in which Great Britain came a heartbreaking fourth in Beijing. Can the team of Naomi Folkard, Amy Oliver and Alison Williamson go at least one better?
Football 7.45pm
Wembley Stadium is the venue as Stuart Pearce's ragtag bunch of Brits take on the mighty United Arab Emirates in their second group game. Something to keep an eye on while you're waiting for Adlington to take to the pool, perhaps.
