World Athletics is working on contingency plans for a 2021 season where competition continues to be impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic in a similar way as 2020.

There are fears of a second coronavirus wave in Europe, while areas such as the Americas and Africa are

Bathurst, in Australia, host of next year’s World Athletics Cross Country Championships, has requested a postponement from the current scheduled date of March 20 because of travel restrictions currently in place during the COVID-19 pandemic.

protected windows mean that the National Federations in Europe, North America and Caribbean and Northern Africa

Global Calendar Unit is working on similar suitable arrangements with Asia, South America, Southern Africa

The International Netball Federation (INF) has postponed the 2021 Netball World Youth Cup due to the COVID-19 crisis.

of eight editions of the competition to date.The INF had been forced to cancel qualifying events in Africa

The International Judo Federation (IJF) has teamed-up with clothing company Ippon Gear to launch a range of face masks.

where IJF development programmes take place.In addition, the company is supporting the IJF's Masks for Africa

offered a donation of €1,000 (£907/$1,170), enough for an additional 1,000 masks.To date, Masks for Africa

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has confirmed the launch of the Men’s Cricket World Cup Super League, which will determine seven qualifiers for the 2023 World Cup.

ICC members Afghanistan, Australia, Bangladesh, England, India, Ireland, New Zealand, Pakistan, South Africa

An original drawing of the Olympic rings sketched by Baron Pierre de Coubertin sold for €185,000 (£169,000/$216,000) at an auction in Cannes today.

green and red on a white field.It is believed he intended the rings to represent the five continents of Africa

It is sad that I am no longer surprised when the Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) announces that several Kenyan runners have fallen foul of anti-doping rules.

The AIU helped to fund the first World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA)-approved laboratory in East Africa,

Oregon-based Nike has served notice of impending job cuts that it says are expected to result in pre-tax "employee termination costs" of some $200 million (£154 million/€168 million) to $250 million (£192.5 million/€210 million).

two geographic regions: Carl Grebert becomes vice-president, general manager Europe, Middle East and Africa

In 1980, there were two hockey shocks at the Olympics. In February, an unfancied team of American college players beat the Soviets en route to ice hockey gold at the Winter Games in Lake Placid. They called it the 'Miracle on Ice'. Their story inspired a movie. Few could have imagined there would be an even greater sensation on the hockey field that summer in Moscow.

against the Rhodesian National Olympic Committee (NOC) were very similar to those which had seen South Africa

excluded from the Olympic Movement in 1970.Abraham Ordia, President of the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa

Stewart was an experienced player who had won representative honours with South Africa."

stood me in good stead and it taught me how to fight to the top and never give up," she told Forbes Africa

65.She had been a teacher and then sports administrator at the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa

The World Rugby Executive Committee has recommended a revised and temporary international calendar for 2020, with the aim of making the most of the recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

and travel.The Rugby Championship 2020, which features Argentina, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

World Surf League (WSL) has confirmed the cancellation of its Championship Tour and qualifying series due to the coronavirus pandemic, while outlining plans for the 2021 season.

a WSL event in Saquarema during May, with California and Indonesia set to host events in June.South Africa

An original drawing of the Olympic rings sketched by Baron Pierre de Coubertin is set to go up for auction in Cannes next Sunday (July 26) and is estimated to sell for as much as €100,000 (£91,000/$114,000).

green and red on a white field.It is believed he intended the rings to represent the five continents of Africa

Alain Rolland is to step down from his role as World Rugby's 15s high performance match official manager at the end of this month.

The Irishman refereed the final of the 2007 Rugby World Cup between South Africa and England ©Getty ImagesRolland

Forty years ago today, the most politically charged Olympics of modern times began when the distinctive chimes of the Kremlin were relayed to the Lenin Stadium by loudspeaker.

World Cups.In the 10,000m in Moscow, he did not wear the colours of Ethiopia but the bright orange Africa

Proposals introducing gender and continental quotas for representation on the Badminton World Federation (BWF) Council have been approved during the body's Annual General Meeting (AGM) today.

configuration; 10 Asian representatives, nine from Europe, three from the Americas, three representing Africa