Caroline O'Hanlon has been named as Northern Ireland’s flagbearer for the Opening Ceremony of the Commonwealth Games here. 

seventh place after beating Wales in a classification match.Australia, Barbados, Fiji, Jamaica and South Africa

Athletics is always of a high standard at the Commonwealth Games but the programme at Christchurch 1974 was perhaps the best ever.

African nations in boycotting the Games in protest against the All Blacks' rugby union tour of South Africa

South African wheelchair tennis player Bongani Dlamini has died following a short illness.

away just three weeks after being diagnosed with meningitis and tuberculosis.He represented South Africa

Mohlamonyane.Bongani Dlamini won 13 quad singles titles in his career ©KZN Tennis AssociationWheelchair Tennis South Africa

Suriname's korfball side has been named as team of the month for March by the International World Games Association (IWGA).

city Cali with an undefeated record.This earned them a place at the 2019 World Championships in South Africa

Australian Cricketers' Association President Greg Dyer has said the bans handed to the trio of players involved in the country's ball tampering scandal are "disproportionate" and should be reconsidered.

comes after a plot to tamper with the ball during the third day of the third Test against South Africa

A Commonwealth Sports Universities Network (CSUN) has been launched on the eve of Gold Coast 2018, with the aim to build closer ties between the multi-sport event and the higher education sector.

Ottawa and the University of Toronto.The list is completed by the University of Johannesburg from South Africa

Injury and illness have forced changes to New Zealand's men’s and women’s rugby sevens teams on the eve of the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games here.

and Zambia in Pool C.The four-time champions will be aiming to bounce back from their defeat to South Africa

the favourites for the inaugural Commonwealth Games crown and will take on Canada, Kenya and South Africa

He was a champion of local farmers, a newspaper man who left school at 13 and worked his way up, a lover of athletics who founded a prestigious club and became Canada’s Olympic team manager, a man who would never take "No" for an answer, and who could not stand arrogant Americans. 

recovered.Before the week was out an Empire Games Federation had been formed, New Zealand and South Africa

At the Imperial Conference of 1926, held in London, South Africa asked for a constitutional definition

An Australian cricket scandal and discussions about future editions of the Commonwealth Games may have dominated the past week but it is just a few days before sporting action gets underway on the Gold Coast.

champions Fiji and regular World Sevens Series competitors Australia, England, New Zealand and South Africa

Even the more cynical among us will reluctantly admit the International Olympic Committee (IOC) probably did the right thing when they awarded two editions of the Games at the same time.

additional fee Birmingham has had to pay to stage 2022 - nearly double what was asked of the South Africa

 When that "right time" for Africa will be remains a key question the CGF need to answer.The withdrawal

The Gambia will compete at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games after they were officially readmitted as a member of the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) at the organisation’s General Assembly here today.

ourcommonwealth #LoveTheCommonwealth #gc2018 #CommonwealthGames #goldcoast #queensland #australia #africa

Hosts Morocco won four gold medals as action concluded today at the African Taekwondo Championships in Agadir.

Republic of Congo’s Naomi Katoka were the bronze medallists.The World Taekwondo President's Cup for the Africa

A "wide-ranging" review of player behaviour and the spirit of the game has been launched by the International Cricket Council (ICC) following the ball-tampering scandal engulfing the Australian team.

for his role in the plot to tamper with the ball during the third day of the third Test against South Africa

to intimidate opposition players - during the fiercely-contested series between Australia and South Africa

Sixth seed Jeļena Ostapenko of Latvia will face American Sloane Stephens for the women's singles title after both players came through their respective semi-finals at the Miami Open.

Croatia.Zverev will take on Spain's Pablo Carreño Busta after he knocked out sixth seed Kevin Anderson of South Africa

simplified" host city selection process for the 2022 Summer Youth Olympic Games, which have been promised to Africa

in either 2032 or 2036.An Olympic event has never been held in Africa before.

 Cape Town in South Africa came closest when reaching the candidature stage of the 2004 edition,

 "Africa is the home of so many very successful Olympic athletes," Bach said in February."

Africa is a continent of youth.

 "That is why we want to take the Youth Olympic Games 2022 to Africa."