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International Rugby League reviewing programme for 2020 over coronavirus

  • Non-Olympic Sports

International Rugby League (IRL) has said the organisation are reviewing its full international programme for 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic.

returned to the IRL Board ©Getty ImagesThe MEA Championship, featuring teams in the Middle East and Africa

, will currently take place in October.Lebanon, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa are due to compete


Zambia holds first youth Baseball5 tournament

  • Baseball and Softball

More than 100 players, representing seven different clubs, took part in the first youth Baseball5 tournament ever held in Zambia.

 Africa has two spots available at the tournament, but qualifying has not yet begun on the continent


Philip Barker: The unluckiest IOC President

  • Inside the Blogs

Forty years ago, International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Lord Killanin was only a few weeks from retirement, but he found himself at the centre of a bitter Olympic crisis as the campaign to boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics raged around him.

Images"The Montreal problems never seemed to go away," lamented Lord Killanin.A rugby union tour of South Africa

blatant disregard for human dignity, by its avowed and open support and collaboration with racist South Africa


World Rugby election "too close to call" as voting closes

  • Rugby Sevens

The election for the chairmanship of World Rugby, which is being contested by Sir Bill Beaumont and Agustin Pichot, is being described as "too close to call" as voting closes tonight.

a lot of self-protection from existing players versus those of us, particularly the SANZAAR (South Africa

Romania, Samoa and Fiji.Not all unions have declared which way they have voted, with Japan and South Africa

their stance.Some reports suggest Japan are leaning towards Sir Bill, while other reports claim South Africa


Skhosana among four candidates to win arbitration cases to stand for SASCOC Presidency

  • ANOCA

Acting South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) President Aleck Skhosana is one of four officials to have been cleared to stand for the role on a full-time basis, after winning a case against the organisation.

Athletics South Africa President Skhosana, Netball South Africa President Cecilia Molokwane‚ Free State

contest for a position as a Board member of SASCOC for the next Olympic four-year cycle," Athletics South Africa

Athletics South Africa highlighted that the decision was their second successful arbitration award against

become embroiled in disputes, amid allegations made over the blocking of the candidates.Tennis South Africa


Trial of Al-Khelaifi and Valcke over World Cup broadcasting rights to begin in September

  • Football

The trial of Paris Saint-Germain President Nasser Al-Khelaifi and former FIFA secretary general Jerome Valcke over the alleged illegal awarding of media rights for World Cup tournaments will begin in Switzerland in September.

excluding the Club World Cup, between 2015 and 2022 in 23 territories across the Middle East and North Africa




NOCZ President Foloko pays tribute to Zambian air disaster victims on 27th anniversary

  • ANOCA

National Olympic Committee of Zambia (NCOZ) President Alfred Foloko has visited the Heroes' Acre burial site to commemorate the 27th anniversary of the plane crash which killed the country's national football team and technical staff.

after the disaster ultimately missed out on reaching the World Cup by one point, but did reach the Africa

1994, losing to Nigeria.In 2012 in Libreville, not far from the site of the disaster, Zambia won the Africa


Rugby Europe back Beaumont in World Rugby leadership race

  • Rugby Sevens

Rugby Europe have announced they are supporting Sir Bill Beaumont in his bid to be re-elected as World Rugby chairman.

 South Africa, New Zealand, Australia and Argentina (SANZAAR) and Six Nations countries have three


SAFA urges SASCOC to "stop this exercise of wasting money" over election dispute

  • ANOCA

The South African Football Association (SAFA) has weighed in on what it called "recent shenanigans" concerning the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) Presidential election.

Gideon Sam stood down in 2019 after reaching the age limit of 70, sparking the election.Athletics South Africa

President Aleck Skhosana, Free State Rugby President Jerry Segwaba and Netball South Africa President

 Tennis South Africa has also felt the need to act over the debacle, announcing a review into the


FIA Gran Turismo Championships 2020 begin with start of Online Series

  • Non-Olympic Sports

The Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) Certified Gran Turismo Championships 2020 started yesterday with the hosting of the first three of 30 rounds in the Online Series.

and 16.It will also be split into five regions globally with those being Europe, the Middle East and Africa


Toomua calls for change to "outdated" Super Rugby model

  • Rugby Sevens

Australia and Melbourne Rebels flyhalf Matt Toomua has said there should be a rethink of the Super Rugby competition once rugby union can restart after the coronavirus pandemic.

His comments come after South Africa Rugby (SA Rugby) announced it wants to launch a new domestic club

competition needs to be replaced by more local tournaments.Clubs from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa

VdJned2rat#StrongerTogether pic.twitter.com/Nq6LOhyTPa— Springboks (@Springboks) April 21, 2020In South Africa

happening across various sporting codes all over the world - we are not shielded from this in South Africa

Staging a new domestic competition this summer may prove wishful thinking as South Africa is currently


Exclusive: Pichot "happy" with reports of late Six Nations support on eve of World Rugby election

  • Rugby Sevens

Argentina’s former scrumhalf and captain Agustín Pichot, who is running to be World Rugby chairman against the incumbent Sir Bill Beaumont in a vote that starts tomorrow, has acknowledged a late report of a possible split in the expected Six Nations bloc vote for his English rival.

unions in the Six Nations and Rugby Championship, another two each to the six regional associations - Africa

Union Weekly podcast that he was starting 20 votes to 14 down - counting on the 12 votes held by South Africa

nation that hosted the 2019 Rugby World Cup with such spectacular success.The two votes held by Rugby Africa

future involves using the Olympic Movement to help expand rugby union worldwide, especially in Asia, Africa