The Commonwealth Games will never be the same again after Birmingham 2022.

aim.Only six per cent of the Commonwealth’s combined population of 2.4 billion live outside Asia and Africa

World Lacrosse and the Limerick 2022 Organising Committee have announced that a record 23 teams will play at next year's Men's Under-21 World Championship.

Poland, Puerto Rico, Sweden and Uganda.Five continents will be represented - Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa

South African athletes are using leftover supplies of the single-jab Johnson and Johnson vaccine as part of clinical trials in the country to ensure they have a full course of an inoculation against COVID-19 in time for this year's Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

were vaccinating with two shots," Govender told the Associated Press.According to the report, South Africa

with just 642,000 receiving at least one dose.Johnson and Johnson jabs are being rolled out in South Africa

take place between August 24 and September 5.More than 55,500 people have died from COVID-19 in South Africa

A date has been set for Algerian Olympic Committee's (COA) Presidential election - and incumbent Abderrahmane Hammad is to face at least one challenger.

Committee member Mustapha Berraf quit.Berraf still leads the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

Hosts Senegal won their third successive Beach Soccer Africa Cup of Nations title following a 4-1 victory

The Colombian Olympic Committee (COC) has announced that its athletes will be part of a prioritised programme of vaccination against COVID-19 in time to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

compete in Tokyo who have announced prioritised vaccination programmes for their athletes.Fiji, South Africa

Nigeria has stepped in to host this year’s African Athletics Championships after intended host Algeria had to postpone staging the biennial event for a third time earlier this month because of COVID-19 concerns.

Balogun stadium in Lagos.Their meeting coincided with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

General Assembly.Lagos to host Africa!

Athletes at the African Weightlifting Championships in Nairobi, Kenya say the organisation and training conditions are the worst they have seen and that the event has been "shameful" for the sport.

while athletes waited for their next lift.Khaled Mehalhel, President of the Weightlifting Federation of Africa

title in Nairobi should put him in the top eight places for Tokyo, told a Kenyan interviewer, "All of Africa

As a weightlifting technician since the 1980s I can see that sport in Africa is going downhill."

is no women’s super-heavyweight contest because there are no entries, and not a single lifter from Africa

seen in the video shot in a car park, is out on his own.If he finishes in the top eight in qualifying, Africa

Reigning champions and hosts Senegal earned a place in tomorrow’s final of the Beach Soccer Africa Cup

over Uganda in the second semi-final.By reaching the final, both teams have qualified to represent Africa

Hosts and reigning champions New Zealand are set to meet rivals Australia on the opening day of next year's rescheduled Rugby World Cup.

All the opening-day matches will be held at Eden Park in Auckland with South Africa and France clashing

B comprises of qualifiers from Europe and Asia as well as Canada and the US.England, France, South Africa

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) has reportedly confirmed it will begin vaccinating athletes and support staff against COVID-19 prior to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Several nations have taken up the IOC’s vaccine offer, including Britain, Fiji, South Africa and Brazil.The

Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas is in awesome form as she prepares to compete in tomorrow night's second Diamond League meeting of the season at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha, where she retained her world triple jump title in 2019.

a hurdles race since the 2019 World Championships final, but a 45.43 clocking on the flat in South Africa

Khaled Mehalhel has been re-elected for a third term as President of the Weightlifting Federation of Africa

Libyan, will continue as secretary general, and the new first vice-president is Kevin du Plooy of South Africa

of Nigeria and one of the WFA vice-presidents, said, ‘’The goal of the Weightlifting Federation of Africa

Yes, like many sports in Africa we are still coming up but here we have an advantage that weightlifting

Cameroon, Morocco, Ghana and Mauritius are represented in Nairobi, while others, most notably from South Africa

over Egypt today in their winner-takes-all match for a place in the semi-finals of the Beach Soccer Africa

meet UgandaThe two teams that reach the final of this continental tournament will qualify to represent Africa

Morocco will play a winner-takes-all match tomorrow for a place in the semi-finals of the Beach Soccer Africa

of one.The two teams that reach the final of this continental tournament will qualify to represent Africa