As International Hockey Federation (FIH) President Leandro Negre jokingly said during his speech to guests at the recent Hockey Writers' Club lunch at the Royal Thames Yacht Club in London, the Spanish are no strangers to revolution.

IOC, who he feels were unwilling to “set a precedent for the future” by going against SASCOC.South Africa

Africa in the women's tournament at Rio 2016 ©Frank Uijlenbroek/FIHThat in itself goes against another

Africa would have been detrimental to the event as a whole due to the apparent lack of strength in-depth

Africa and other national teams.

In the women’s, Spain is about the same standard as South Africa but there is a big gap to the next

Dubai-based company Channel 2 Group have been appointed as the official audio rights partner of the International Cricket Council (ICC) for an eight-year period, it has been announced.

“Our group has come a long way since 2007 ICC World Twenty20 in South Africa, where we had only the Cricket

Angola will compete in an Olympic sailing competition for the first time in 24 years after Matia Montinho and Paixao Afonso secured a quota place at the 470 African Championships.

proved good enough to claim the sole spot as all five teams to finish above them were all representing South

Africa. 

Afonso with 55 points, with Algerians Hakim Djoulah and Samir Ksouri finishing down in 10th with 119.South

Africa pair Asenathi Jim and Roger Hudson won the regatta but have already qualified for Rio 2016 ©World

Northern Ireland's Government has reiterated their support for a "compelling" all-Irish bid to host the 2023 Rugby World Cup despite problems surrounding the redevelopment of Casement Park, one of the proposed venues.

with rugby union one of the few sports in which the two compete under a single umbrella.Many stadiums south

South Africa, France and Italy are other countries to have confirmed bids, with tender documentation

Jordan and hosts Poland will make their debuts when 26 countries - representing all five continents - contest this year's Men's World Junior Team Squash Championship in Bielsko-Biała in August. 

Kong China, India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, South

Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United States and Zimbabwe.

Part two of the World Anti-Doping Agency’s (WADA) Independent Commission report revealed a nepotistic cabal surrounding former International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) President Lamine Diack, which, instead of taking on the parasitic culture of doping eating away at the sport, reacted by bribing and extorting their way to a personal fortune.It stuck another dagger into the already-punctured heart of athletics but also the entire structure of global sports administration.

, the best parallel appears to be with the heads of major business conglomerates in a country like South

politics like many sporting leaders are able to ©Getty ImagesIt is only in places like Russia, parts of Africa

You don’t have to cast your mind too far back in the past to remember a period when corruption and scandal were as synonymous with cricket as the words bat and ball.

Africa in 2002, was vilified and hounded out as one of the biggest cheats in the sport’s history.

fix‚ or otherwise improperly influence, aspects of the 2015 Ram Slam T20 Challenge Series by Cricket South

Africa.

seen how far the ICC choose to take the case, but it already appears bleak for the 37-year-old.Former South

African international Gulam Bodi has this week been implicated in a match-fixing scandal in South Africa

Barcelona star Lionel Messi has been named as the winner of the FIFA Ballon d’Or for a record fifth time at a glittering ceremony in Zurich, beating off competition from Real Madrid forward Cristiano Ronaldo and Brazilian team-mate Neymar.

Florenzi's 55-yard strike in the Champions League against Barcelona was third.Former Leeds United and South

Africa captain Lucas Radebe announced all football clubs and organisations supporting refugees as the

Three qualification spots for this year's Olympic football tournament in Rio de Janeiro will be up for grabs at the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Under-23 Championships, due to begin in Doha tomorrow,  at a time of heightened tensions in the Middle East.

Sixteen sides will compete, led by South Korea, who will be targeting a 10th Olympic appearence and an

continental event in Oman in 2014, in Group C, alongside Uzbekistan and minnows Yemen.Japan, beaten 2-0 by South

Brazil, these consist of Algeria, Argentina, Denmark, Fiji, Germany, Honduras, Portugal, Nigeria and South

Africa. 

medallist Oscar Pistorius have today lodged official appeal papers to the Constitutional Court in South

Africa in a bid to get his murder conviction overturned.

His bail was also set at R10,000 (£413/$600/€553) by Judge Aubrey Ledwaba last month, who said the South

wait for the constitutional court to make a ruling on whether or not they will hear the appeal.”The South

was released from prison and placed under house arrest on October 19 having been eligible under the South

World ParaVolley is currently holding a series of sitting volleyball courses in Cape Town in South

Africa, with representatives of several African nations taking part.

Held in collaboration with the Agitos Foundation and ParaVolley South Africa at Stellenbosch University

coaches, classifiers and referees.Participants from Malawi, Namibia, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe and South

Africa are among those in attendance, while Norway is also represented.  

World ParaVolley sport director Denis Le Breuilly and ParaVolley South Africa’s Anton Raimondo put together

Paralympic Committee’s development arm awarded a grant for sitting volleyball development in Western Africa

Botswanan rugby sevens players failed doping tests during the Olympic Games qualifying tournament in South

Africa, it has been confirmed.

Two women have been added by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to its previously all-male Ethics Commission, it was announced today. 

Former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa Catherine O’Regan and Singapore National Olympic

Nations Internal Justice Council between 2012 and 2014 and oversaw allegations of inefficiency in the South

World Rugby chairman Bernard Lapasset is predicting a "game-changing" year for the sport as the sevens version makes its debut at the Olympic Games and the international governing body bids to continue what is said to be record participation growth.

sport via World Rugby's Get Into Rugby mass-participation programme with major growth experienced in Africa

for the 2023 Rugby World Cup will "continue to gather pace this year" with Ireland, France, Italy and South

Africa all having made formal expressions of interest.The 2023 World Cup hosts are due to be announced

The New Year promises no lessening of the turmoil and controversy within which football’s international governing body, FIFA, is currently embroiled. And while the game continues to purge itself of the corruption which appears to have reached so many of its loftiest branches, its roots – namely, the Laws of The Game – are also subject to imminent, sweeping change.

rule recommendations are considered – or implemented.In the lead-up to the 2010 World Cup finals in South

Africa, FIFA came under increasing pressure to install technology that was already established in

Scotland, where Australia won 35-34 thanks to a last minute penalty awarded for a deliberate offside by South