By Gary AndersonFIFA President Sepp Blatter has said goal-line technology will be used for the first time by European football governing body UEFA at the 2016 European Championship in France.

Premier League last season.Calls for goal-line technology came to a head following the last World Cup in South

Africa in 2010 when a shot from England's Frank Lampard was disallowed despite replays showing the ball

0 win over Italy in which he appeared to bite an opponent ©AFP/Getty ImagesAt the last World Cup in South

Africa, Suarez left the pitch chaired by his fellow players having effectively sacrificed his own interests

the awarding of the finals to France when they claimed it should have gone by agreed rotation to a South

By Gary AndersonThe International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has announced the composition of six of its 11 Standing Committees, with 21 countries represented in the 37 positions filled, while two places remain vacant.

Australian Nicki Vance, Greek George Tsamis, Katarzyna Rogowiec of Poland, Chin Sim Teoh of Singapore, South

respectively.Hart will be joined by Germany's Jürgen Schwittai, Italian Francesca Porcellato, Scott Field of South

Africa, Australian Sean Tweedy and Graham Arthur of Great Britain.The Medical Committee will be composed

of Dutchman Jaap Stomphorst, South Africa's Wayne Derman, Briton Nick Webborn, James Kissick of Canada

American Carla Qualtrough of Canada, Zimbabwean Winnet Kanyerere, Mark Copeland of New Zealand and South

The IOC meetings in London coincided with the Middlesex versus South Africa tour match.

By Duncan MackayNew Zealand today joined England and withdrew its bid to host the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2018 Under-20 Women's World Cup. 

It leaves France, South Africa and South Korea in the race to host the tournaments. 

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Africa to bid for 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup

By Gary AndersonHockey Australia has revealed the men's and women's squads that will be targeting gold at Glasgow 2014 as they look to maintain their dominance at next month's Commonwealth Games.

Glasgow National Hockey Centre.They are joined by Delhi 2010 runners-up India, hosts Scotland, Wales and South

Africa while Pool B is made up of Manchester 2002 silver medallists New Zealand, 1998 silver and bronze

champions India as well as Delhi 2010 silver medal winners New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Canada and South

By Gary AndersonWales interim coach Laura Williams claims the team's netballers are "united" as the squad was revealed for this year's Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games just two weeks after head coach Melissa Hyndman was sacked.

against world champions Australia and three-time Commonwealth Games bronze medallists England.Barbados, South

Africa and Trinidad and Tobago complete the Group B line-up.Defending champions New Zealand have been

By Emily GoddardThe English Football Association (FA) has dropped its bid to host the 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2018 Under-20 Women's World Cup.

France, South Korea, New Zealand and South Africa remain in the running to host the 2019 Women's World

Cup, while all but South Africa are bidding for the 2018 Under-20 Women's World Cup.South Africa was

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By Gary AndersonSouth African Jaco Peyper will take charge of the opening match of this year's Rugby Championship after the International Rugby Board (IRB) announced match official appointments for the tournament along with a number of upcoming qualifiers for the Rugby World Cup 2015.

Sydney on August 16.On the same day, Irishman John Lacey will be in the middle for the clash between South

Clancy will be in charge for Australia against South Africa at Patersons Stadium in Perth on September

Pascal Gaüzèr and Jérôme Garcès will referee All Blacks games at home against Australia, Argentina and South

only man to be handed control of two games in the Championship and will be the man in the middle when South

place on the final day of the Championship, which will also see England's Wayne Barnes officiate the South

By Gary AndersonFour-time Paralympic champion Leo-Pekka Tahti of Finland celebrated his 31st birthday in style by claiming his second win of the weekend at the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletics Grand Prix meeting in Berlin.

his rising status on the international stage by pushing London 2012 bronze medallist Arnu Fourie of South

Africa right to the end in their T44 200m clash.Fourie crossed the line just 0.03 ahead of Streng with

By Philip BarkerBaron Pierre de Coubertin certainly hit on something special when he designed the Olympic rings. He had been looking for a symbol to reflect the Olympic idea  ever since he had persuaded the sporting leaders of the world to revive the Games back in 1894.June 23 is Olympic Day so this is an appropriate time to celebrate the five famous linked circles which were revealed to the public 100 years ago. They are now one of the most instantly recognisable symbols in the world.

One was black for Africa,another yellow for Asia and the third green for Oceania.

With the famous old  flag is set to fly at a South American Olympics for the first time.In such spectacular

World Championship crown after a superb defensive display in the final few minutes saw them overcome South

Africa 21-20 in a pulsating affair at Eden Park in Auckland.

Junior Boks captain Handre Pollard, to reduce the deficit to a single point with 15 minutes to go.The South

piled on the pressure with the men in white camped in their own half for the final ten minutes.The South

A superb defensive rearguard by England saw them squeeze over the line against a determined South Africa

By Nick Butler"Increased collaboration" will take place between the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and the United Nations (UN) following a meeting in Lausanne today between respective chiefs Thomas Bach and Ban Ki-moon.

signed between Thomas Bach and Ban Ki-moon ©IOCTwo of the specific areas up for discussion concerned Africa

Sudan and Central African Republic.In South Sudan, where war has forced millions of people from their

of famine, the IOC is working with the Sudan Olympic Committee, as well as representatives from the South

Sudanese sporting movement to identify and assist athletes with the potential to qualify for Rio 2016.South

Using sport to unite war-torn countries, such as South Sudan, is a key aim of the IOC and UN partnership

By Gary AndersonThe Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centre has been officially opened today, latest London 2012 venue to become operational again as part of the Olympics and Paralympics legacy following a £30 million ($50 million/€37 million) redevelopment.

eight teams taking part in the invitational event from July 9 to 13.England, Ireland, Scotland and South

Africa are set to compete in the men's competition while the women's line-up includes England, Scotland

, South Africa and Wales."

But in 2012 things came to a head in a series against his birth-country South Africa.

second test, it was alleged Pietersen had sent defamatory text messages about his teammates to several South