Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Ahmad Ahmad has called for the continent to show cohesion in supporting Morocco's bid for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Zimbabwe all publicly supported the United bid against the wishes of Ahmad.Others, including South Africa

Cricket Australia chief executive James Sutherland has announced his resignation from the role just two months after the ball-tampering scandal involving three high-profile Australian players.

Australia launched an investigation into the scandal, which occurred during the third Test between South Africa

South Africa have been crowned as the overall men's World Rugby Sevens Series champions after a day of

maximum of 13 points for finishing fifth - which they duly did by beating the United States - but South Africa

that, seeing off England 24-14 in the final and winning the overall title by just two points.South Africa

tournament we said we don't want to focus on the result, we want to play some fantastic rugby," said South Africa

Next Wednesday (June 13), the FIFA Congress is due to convene in Moscow to decide the host of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

 The German bid narrowly defeated the 2010 World Cup host South Africa in the 2006 race; Beckenbauer

Kwesi Nyantakyi has resigned as President of the Ghana Football Association (GFA) and the country's Government has begun a process to dissolve the organisation after the FIFA Council member was banned for 90 days.

journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas shows Nyantakyi, considered among the most powerful football officials in Africa

their first World Cup in 2006 in Germany before competing at the 2010 and 2014 editions in South Africa

United States' Suzanne Hartwig-Gary was among the winners as action continued at the International Powerlifting Federation's (IPF) Classic World Championships in Calgary.

dominated a competition in which Canada's Jayne Egan was a distant second with 300kg.Carol Anthony of South Africa

Defending champions New Zealand topped Group A of the World Rugby Under-20 Championship by beating rivals Australia in France today.

second in the group, with the European side coming out on top by a 30-26 score.France clashed with South Africa

Having accrued the more points in their group than fellow second placed teams Wales and Italy, South Africa

Fiji's men will seek a fifth successive World Rugby Sevens Series win when the final leg of this year's season begins at the Stade Jean Bouin in Paris tomorrow.

 They still only hold a seven point lead over South Africa at the top of the men's standings, however

so there is still all to play for with 22 points available for a victory.Fiji beat arch-rivals South Africa

 "We have a lot of respect for South Africa and the teams in our pool, but we're focusing on one

France 2019 have organised artistic events to mark the one-year countdown to the FIFA Women's World Cup.

place.Three automatic spots will be claimed by CONCACAF teams in their qualification process, with Africa

A schism between athlete representatives from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has deepened after the two organisations clashed over a perceived lack of international spread at the latter's Global Athlete Forum.

Letters were sent to WADA by the chairs of Athlete Commissions in Europe, Asia and Africa complaining

Senegalese 400 metres hurdler Amadou Dia Ba, who chairs the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

countries in attendance at the Forum.The continental representation from athletes at the Forum was 14 from Africa

Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has denied any involvement in or awareness of alleged bribes paid before Rio de Janeiro was awarded the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

Brazil was the closest country to Africa," he said."

I travelled 34 times to Africa, visited 29 countries, opened 19 embassies in Africa.

Top seed Rafael Nadal booked his place in the quarter-finals of the French Open with another straight sets victory as Serena Williams withdrew from a Grand Slam for the first time with an arm injury prior to her eagerly-anticipated clash with Maria Sharapova.

Argentinian 11th seed Diego Schwartzman, who fought from two sets down to beat Kevin Anderson of South Africa

Hong Kong will play the Cook Islands in the next round of qualifying for the 2019 Rugby World Cup after beating South Korea 39-5 to win their first-ever Asia Rugby Championship title.

2019 Rugby World Cup in Japan and will go into Pool B along with world champions New Zealand, South Africa

International University Sports Federation (FISU) members were among those in attendance at the seventh edition of the World Conference on Women and Sport, which took place in Botswana's capital Gaborone.

Equality Committee member.They were joined by Shoni Masutha, a student representative of the Federation of Africa

Fiji claimed a fourth successive win on the World Rugby Sevens Series circuit by beating South Africa

June 3, 2018But the Irish recovered to beat England 21-19 in a nailbiting bronze medal match.South Africa

begin the day while Ireland had continued their superb run with a 22-10 success over Ireland.South Africa