A stand-alone Para-triathlon World Championships and five Continental Championships are scheduled to be held in the forthcoming year after the International Triathlon Union (ITU) confirmed their complete calendar.

February 20 to 21.Bloemfontein will host the African Championships on March 12, with competition in the South

ImagesMeanwhile, the 2016 World Para-triathlon event series is set to get underway on March 19 in Buffalo City, South

Africa, with Penrith in Australia hosting the second event from April 23 to 24.The Japanese city of

International Cycling Union (UCI) President Brian Cookson believes the governing body have made significant steps to boost its integrity and credibility in 2015, citing progress made in anti-doping following publication of the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) report.

agreements with National Anti-Doping Organisations in countries such as Switzerland, France, Denmark, South

Africa and the United Kingdom, the UCI believe the reputation of the sport is improving, citing the

The joint 2018 World Cup bid by The Netherlands and Belgium is to be scrutinised by the FIFA Ethics Committee following allegations of vote buying in Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant.

continued allegations of corruption within the 2006 and 2010 World Cup bid races, won by Germany and South

Africa respectively.Germany’s bid has been shrouded in claims that a slush fund was set up to buy

votes, while the accusations around South Africa’s victory have forced FIFA Presidential candidate Tokyo

corrupt payment of $10 million (£7 million/€9 million) made to former vice-president Jack Warner.The South

As if FIFA didn’t have enough problems at present, the recently-published television audience report for last year’s World Cup in Brazil gives rise to the question, "Has the governing body’s flagship tournament plateaued out as a global TV phenomenon?"

Africa 2010.The average in-home television audience per live match was 186.7 million; this compared

with 188.4 million in South Africa, a decline of just under one per cent.And if you expand the focus

Africa 2010.These figures and trends, by the way, are critically important to FIFA, with television

Then again, that South Africa figure was itself down 19 per cent from Germany 2006, when the Socceroos

Africa”.Not that declines in audience reach were confined to Asia.

FIFA Presidential candidate Tokyo Sexwale has appeared in front of a Grand Jury in the United States as a potential witness and was questioned over an alleged corrupt payment of $10 million (£7 million/€9 million) made to former vice-president Jack Warner, according to BBC Sport.

Sexwale, the South African who is one of five candidates standing to replace Sepp Blatter as FIFA President

Africa the rights to host the 2010 World Cup.The United States Department of Justice, currently investigating

Africa in the 2004 vote.South African Sports Minister Fikile Mbalula dismissed claims the money was

Africa as the host nation for the 2010 World Cup".Tokyo Sexwale was reportedly questioned over a $10

South Africa is clean and we had a clean World Cup."

South African Rugby Union (SARU) commercial marketing general manager Andy Marinos has been appointed

chief executive of South African, New Zealand and Australian Rugby (SANZAR), it has been announced.

Southern Hemisphere, as well as the annual Rugby Championship, played between Australia, Argentina, South

Africa and New Zealand, on January 1.A replacement for Marinos at SARU is expected to be revealed

“I’d like to congratulate Andy on behalf of the South African rugby community,” SARU chief executive

sorely missed at SARU but the consolation is that he takes with him a keen understanding of rugby in South

Africa which I’d like to think will have benefits for all the partners.”

Hockey New Zealand’s chief executive Malcolm Harris today announced his resignation, two years after taking on the role. 

women, to Rio 2016 last week after an appeal to the International Olympic Committee designed to force South

Africa to send its teams was rejected.Both South African sides earned a place at the Games after winning

their respective African Championships in November, but the South African Sports Confederation and

Argentina and hosts Brazil claimed titles at the second edition of an invitational rugby sevens competition on Ipanema beach, which was aimed at promoting the sport ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

rolling substitutions.The hosts proved once again to be dominant having emerged unbeaten against their South

believe the competition was crucial to their preparation for next year’s Games, having earned the South

reached the final of the Cape Town HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series where they were beaten by hosts South

Africa, saw their unbeaten record at the event draw to close.Brasil é bicampeão do Beach Rugby com

has prolonged its term as title sponsor of the Super Rugby competition and associate sponsor of the South

Vodacom joined the South African Rugby Union (SARU) sponsorship family a year after launching in South

Africa as a sponsor of the 1995 Rugby World Cup.The following year, Vodacom extended its partnership

Super Rugby officially started in 1996 with 12 teams from Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.

South African outfit, Vodacom Bulls, compete in Super Rugby ©Getty ImagesVodacom’s Godfrey Motsam, chief

The International Wheelchair & Amputee Sports Federation (IWAS) has held a series of wheelchair fencing training courses in Sharjah om the United Arab Emirates, resulting in 27 new wheelchair fencing coaches, referees and classifiers from nine countries.

The two-day coaching course saw six participants from Malaysia, the UAE, Slovenia and South Africa successfully

Imagine securing a place at the Olympic Games only to have it snatched away from you by the organisation that are ultimately supposed to aid and help the development of sport in your country.

stage.With that in mind, it’s no wonder heads are being scratched amid strong voices of dissent in South

Africa after the country's National Olympic Committee refused to send their men’s and women’s hockey

Usually, that is enough.But not for South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC)

, who are maintaining their harsh stance on a matter which has caused widespread debate in Africa and

Africa competitors will not get to experience during the summer of 2016.And what a shame that is.

Netball powerhouses South Africa, New Zealand, England and Australia have joined forces in a ground-breaking

respectively, will stage the inaugural event late next year.The competition will then move to England and South

Africa, ranked third and fifth in the world respectively, who will host in early 2017.A review will

England, Singapore, Wales and hosts India booked their place in the semi-finals of the women’s competition at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships in Surat.

ImagesBoth teams’ players won each of their three singles matches against Trinidad and Tobago and South

Africa to ensure their progression.England and Singapore will complete their group stages matches

Spain's women to Rio 2016 after an appeal to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) designed to force South

Africa to send its teams was rejected.

Both South African sides earned a place at the Games after winning their respective African Championships

Africa turn down invitation to send women's rugby sevens team to Rio 2016December 2015: Nigeria win

2015 African Under-23 Championships as South Africa earn Rio 2016 berthNovember 2015: South Africa Hockey

Africa to turn down Rio 2016 qualification offers on back of FIH African Championships successNovember

2015: South Africa claim men and women's double at FIH African Championships

International rugby sevens teams are set to compete in the second edition of an invitational beach competition to help promote the sport ahead of the Rio 2016 Olympics.

reaching the final of the Cape Town HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series where they were beaten by hosts South

Africa. 

Brazil will compete against South American rivals Argentina, Colombia and Uruguay in the women’s event

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