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Hosts Colombia continue perfect start to campaign at WBSC Under-23 Baseball World Cup

  • Baseball and Softball

Hosts Colombia eased to victory over South Africa today to maintain their 100 per cent record at the

Taipei 3-1 today, while Mexico defeated The Netherlands 14-7.Chinese Taipei, The Netherlands and South Africa

tomorrow.The Group A schedule is made up of matches between Mexico and Japan, The Netherlands and South Africa



Philip Barker: Dakar 2022 the latest chapter in African sport

  • Inside the Blogs

It is not without a certain irony that Africa will become the last of the five continents to stage a

President Thomas Bach borrowed a phrase from Shakira's 2010 World Cup song to insist "it's time for Africa

Session, their President Baron Pierre de Coubertin told his fellow members: "Let us not hesitate to let Africa

IOC Session, the first to be held in an African country.Thomas Bach passes the Youth Olympic flag to Africa

had it not been for the rule of apartheid in South Africa.

Jean Claude Ganga and the Supreme Council for Sport in Africa kept up the pressure and South Africa were


Japan seeking to retain title at WBSC Under-23 Baseball World Cup

  • Baseball and Softball

Japan are set to begin the defence of their Under-23 Baseball World Cup title tomorrow with action set to begin in Colombia.

in the final of the event’s inaugural edition in 2016, are due to open their campaign against South Africa




Zimbabwe win Rugby Sevens 2018 Africa Championship

  • Rugby Sevens

Zimbabwe beat Kenya in the final of the Rugby Sevens 2018 Africa Championship in Monastir to qualify

The top 12 African teams - excluding South Africa - competed in the tournament in Tunisia, including

Zimbabwe celebrate winning the Rugby Sevens 2018 Africa Championship ©Rugby AfriqueNyamutsamba added:



IAAF delay implementation of new testosterone rules amid Semenya challenge

  • Athletics

The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) have agreed to delay the implementation of their new rules on female participation amid the challenge from South Africa's Caster Semenya.

force on November 1 but will now be delayed until March 26.It comes with Semenya and Athletics South Africa



Fifty years on, the political shock waves from the Mexico Olympic Games still resonate

  • The Big Read

Politics has been intermingled with sport in every one of the modern Olympics. That mixture was at its most violent and shocking at the 1972 Munich Games, when the Palestinian Black September group took 11 Israeli Olympic team members hostage, seeking a release of prisoners, and ended up killing them along with a West German police officer.

Tokyo Olympics by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) because of its apartheid system, South Africa

Olympics.However, African countries and African-American athletes promised to boycott the Mexico Games if South Africa

In April 1968, the IOC conceded that "it would be most unwise for South Africa to participate".South

Africa would remain isolated from the Games, and much of world sport, until the ending of the apartheid


Birmingham 2022 ask for public input on Commonwealth Games

  • Birmingham 2022

Birmingham 2022 have launched a consultation period where local people will be given the chance to shape the next edition of the Commonwealth Games.

August 7 in 2022.The city was only awarded the Commonwealth Games in December 2017 after Durban in South Africa