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South African Olympic Committee seeks new partnership with ROC

  • ANOC News

Barry Hendricks, President of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has proposed a closer partnership with the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in the build-up to the Paris 2024 Games.

acting chief executive Ravi Govender invited Pozdnyakov to head up an ROC delegation visit to South Africa


Cairo chosen to host Sitting Volleyball World Cup in December

  • Volleyball News

Egypt's capital Cairo is set to host a Sitting Volleyball World Cup in December to round off the season and a variety of sporting events held in the city in 2021.

World Fencing Championships this year.It also hosted the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa


Burkina Faso, Togo and Congo approved as African Sambo Confederation members

  • Sambo

Three more countries have been accepted as African Sambo Confederation (CAS) members at the organisation's Congress in Cairo - Burkina Faso, Togo and Congo.

Seidou Nji Mouluh of Cameroon.Mohamed Aberouz, CAS technical director, reported on competitions held in Africa

during the pandemic and measures taken by the continental body to develop sambo in Africa.



Italy's Tokyo 2020 medals herald "a new era for weightlifting"

  • Weightlifting

In the first half of the weightlifting programme at Tokyo 2020 Asia has cleaned up, winning 16 of the 21 medals while only one European nation has been represented on the podium.

Our method might not be ideal perhaps in Asia, in Africa, but it is correct for European culture."



Rights for data and video coverage of Teqball Series sold

  • Teqball

Real time sports data provider, FeedConstruct, has secured the rights for data and video coverage for the Teqball Series.

Federations (GAISF), Olympic Council of Asia (OCA), and Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa


Bamako set to host Zone 2 Africa Games after Memorandum of Understanding signed

  • ANOCA

The Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA), Zone 2 of ANOCA and the Government

of Mali signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) detailing the plans for Bamako to host the Zone 2 Africa

Mustapha Berraf, President of ANOCA, to discuss the possibility of the Malian capital hosting the Zone 2 Africa

Malian coup d'état ©Getty Images"This Memorandum of Understanding's aim shall be to organize Zone 2 Africa

Games of the Association of National Olympic Committee of Africa (ANOCA) and to strengthen the partnership

for the organisation of the Zone 2 Africa Games in conformity with resolutions adopted during the Cairo

Among these projects, we have Africa Zone Games, which will be held next December and bring together


ISA President Fernando Aguerre proud as surfing makes Olympic debut

  • Surfing

One of the biggest talking points in the build-up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics has been in the introduction of five new sports - something that has not been witnessed for a century.

think it’s a great opportunity for surfing to grow the sport and take it to parts of the world like Africa



Dominant Dutch out for Olympic redemption in women's hockey at Tokyo 2020

  • Tokyo 2020

The Netherlands women's hockey team will be looking for Olympic redemption when they compete here at Tokyo 2020 as they aim to maintain their record of winning every major tournament since their shock loss in the final at Rio 2016.

stage of the event.They are joined by Rio 2016 bronze medallists Germany, Ireland, India and South Africa

strong hopes for gold.Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands are in Pool B with Canada, Britain and South Africa


Serbia and United States primed to defend Olympic water polo titles at Tokyo 2020

  • Water Polo

Serbia and United States will hope to repeat their Rio 2016 triumphs as men’s and women’s water polo competition begins at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center on the first official day of Tokyo 2020 competition.

ImagesWorld champions Italy head Group A with their opponents including hosts Japan, Greece, Hungary, South Africa


Japan open Tokyo 2020 campaign with win over COVID-19-hit South Africa

  • Football

football campaign at the postponed Olympic Games off to a winning start as they beat a COVID-19-hit South Africa

spectators inside the stadium due to the ban on fans attending the majority of events at Tokyo 2020.South Africa

contacts within the squad were identified, and it showed in their sluggish first-half performance.South Africa

with space in the box but his tame effort was safely collected by Japanese goalkeeper Kosei Tani.South Africa


David Owen: Bach’s big moment arrives as thoughts begin to stray towards succession

  • Inside the Blogs

These are probably the most important weeks of Thomas Bach’s International Olympic Committee (IOC) Presidency.

go-to guy for detailed statistical analysis of the pandemic, and my friend David Pilling, the paper’s Africa

; no doubt you can hunt the article down for yourselves.But it asserts, for example, that last week Africa


"Impact 2024 International" call for projects promoting social impact of sport in Africa launches

  • Paris 2024

2024 International" call for projects that promote the value of sport in sustainable development in Africa

2023.Associations, foundations, local authorities, companies, sports clubs and state structures in Africa

During this difficult economic and social context for the whole of Africa, we wish more than ever to

2024 are strengthening their partnership to support sports projects with a high social impact across Africa