But so it is in Pakistan, India and parts of Australia and South Africa where Test cricket is played

If we said 20 years ago that Rio would host the Olympics or South Africa the World Cup, few would have

By Paul OsborneOctober 17 - London University Student James Cook has been named as the first winner of the Parmigiani Spirit Award

received for the award with the six shortlisted nominees coming from Australia, Britain, China and South

over $40,000(£25,000/ €29,000) for Village Water, a charity dedicated to helping small communities in Africa

By Paul OsborneOctober 17 - Kenya has finally been given permission to host the hockey African Cup of Nations in November after security issues caused the tournament to be postponed.

also hosted the Olympic qualifiers for Beijing 2008 in 2007.Lloyd Norris-Jones is expected to be among South

stretches back to 1993, the last occasion Nairobi staged the event"It is an honour for us to edge out South

Africa to stage this tournament," said aid Nashon Randiek, chairman of the KHU."

"We are determined to make it a success," South Africa will go in the tournament as firm favourites

men's and women's competitions.The men's team have been victorious on the last six occasions with the South

By Gary AndersonOctober 14 - After seeing his Fiji side lose out to England at the quarter-final stage of the Gold Coast Sevens yesterday, Ben Ryan will renew rivalries with his former team again after both nations have been drawn in the same pool for next month's Dubai Sevens.

face a tough three games to start off the defence of their title as they have been drawn against a South

Africa side who looked impressive on their way to the semi-finals last weekend before losing out to

with 22 points from second-placed Australia on 19, with England lying in third on 17 points ahead of South

Africa on 15 and Fiji on 13.Contact the writer of this story at [email protected]

By Nick Butler at the London School of Economics in LondonOctober 14 - Sir Philip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) claimed here tonight that they have achieved considerable success in getting more people participating in sport around the world.

Welfare to the Ministry of Sport.He also cited the work done in countries as diverse as Germany and in Africa

but primarily at a "local" level.To make this point he used the example of an unnamed young girl in South

By David OwenOctober 14 - The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has served notice that no additional anti-doping laboratories will be approved over the next five years in either Europe or North America.

labs is likely to be restricted to 40 until at least 2018, and that growth is likely to be focused in Africa

to "developing a programme to strengthen the analytical capability of the Bloemfontein laboratory in South

Africa and a further new laboratory in the northern part of Africa".A third laboratory, "in the central

region of Africa", would be examined and thereafter development encouraged.Support was also noted for

By Gary AndersonOctober 14 - The French Football Federation (FFF) plans to ask world governing body FIFA to review the seeding system for the Brazil 2014 FIFA World Cup qualifying play-offs as it believes the current format is unfair.

Ironically, FIFA came in for criticism for employing the same seeding system for the 2010 World Cup in South

Africa which saw France benefit by entering the play-off draw as top seeds.

) called on FIFA to either sanction a replay of the match or allow the Republic of Ireland to go to South

Africa as a 33rd team, but these calls were quickly dismissed by President Joseph Blatter.Giovanni Trapattoni

By Gary AndersonOctober 13 - Defending World Sevens Series champions New Zealand came from behind to defeat hosts Australia in the final of the season opening Gold Coast Sevens, signalling their intent to hold on to the title they won in emphatic style last season.

impressive first World Series outing by clinching third place with a record-breaking 47-0 win over a strong South

yesterday's pool game but a gruelling extra-time defeat to Australia in the semi-final might go against the South

South Africa are a fantastic side but I think they just ran out of steam there."

Dan Bibby heads for the try line in England's record breaking 47-0 win over South Africa to secure third

By Nick ButlerOctober 12 - All of the top seeded nations negotiated the opening day of the 2013-2014 Rugby Sevens World Series on the Gold Coast, although it was defending champions New Zealand who were most impressive as they conceded not a single point in their three pool matches.

remains early stages of the tournament and indeed the season but, after they finished 41 points clear of South

Africa to win last year's series, they have certainly made an ominously strong start towards a title

try-scorer of the season courtesy of Waisake Naholo against the US in the opening match of the day.The South

Africa will face Wales.However the stand out quarter final match up will pit the defending Gold Coast

Africa reverse.England's Dan Bibby scored the first hat-trick of the season in the Spain match, while

By Gary AndersonOctober 10 - Members of the Team Bath netball squad, including double Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Pamela Cookey, visited the offices of sponsors Carter Jonas to mark the firm's role as official property partner of the Superleague champions.

Stacey Francis, Serena Guthrie and Mia Ritchie, fresh from their recent 3-0 series whitewash over South

Africa, which included a 49-38 win in the opening fixture at the University of Bath.

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By Gary AndersonOctober 10 - This year's African Men's Wheelchair Basketball Championships have been moved from Egypt to Angola as a result of ongoing security fears and political unrest in the North African country.

of at least seven protestors outside the Presidential Palace in the Egyptian capital last year.South Africa

cement their status as the top African wheelchair basketball team in Luanda Back on the court, South

Africa will go into the rearranged Championships in Luanda as hot favourites to retain the title they

South Africa have been the leading lights in African wheelchair basketball over recent years, having

people" has provoked a widespread reaction throughout a number of sports.England cricket's naturalised South

South Africa's cricket captain Graeme Smith would presumably agree with Shearer's take on this issue,

as he has has clearly never forgiven his former teammate Pietersen - who was born and raised in South

Africa but has an English mother - for electing to play for his adopted country of England.

By Gary AndersonOctober 9 - A new promotion and relegation system is to be introduced for this season's HSBC Seven World Series, which starts in the Gold Coast this week, it has been announced by the International Rugby Board (IRB). 

event.Argentina, Australia, Canada, England, Fiji, France, Kenya, New Zealand, Portugal, Samoa, Scotland, South

Africa, Spain, United States and Wales are the nations who currently hold core status.At the final round

the Mountain Rescue service helped carry the Baton at Llanberis.Over the next three days it headed South

from the 1970 Games.Many countries boycotted in 1986 over Britain's stance on sporting contact with South

Africa, so the Queen's words, read by the Duke of Edinburgh seem particularly poignant.

The Baton was divided and visited New Zealand's North and South Islands.

 (L-R) Arnu Fourie of South Africa, Jonnie Peacock of Great Britain, Richard Browne of the United

States, Oscar Pistorius of South Africa and Alan Oliveira Cardoso Oliveira of Brazil compete in the