By Andrew WarshawSeptember 17 - FIFA and Brazil 2014 have announced that a yet to-be-named armadillo will be the World Cup mascot.

England – a lion dressed in the Union Jack flag and named Willie.The mascot of the 2010 World Cup in South

Africa was a leopard, an animal commonly found in that country.

It was yellow and green - the South African colours - and was called Zakumi.

By Tom DegunSeptember 16 - International Paralympic Committee (IPC) chief executive Xavier Gonzalez admitted that the organisation would like to have seen more coverage of the Paralympic Games in the United States after American broadcasting giant NBC declined to show a single minute of live coverage on its network from London 2012.

Brazil's Alan Oliveira's (left) victory over Oscar Pistorius (right) of South Africa at the London 2012

highlights were shown in the United States and, unlike the Olympics, little at all in many countries in Africa

Meadows were worthier than those of Oscar Pistorius and co in the Olympic Stadium.Oscar Pistorius of South

Africa wins the men's T44 400 metres on day eight of London 2012 but his feat was overshadowed in the

September on the second day of the Games.Another star of the Games was the famous Oscar Pistorius of South

Africa, also known as the "blade runner" due to the appearance of his prosthetic legs.

were hosting the Olympic Games, these plans never materialised.The national federations of Denmark, South

Africa and the Netherlands offered to host the Games and the Netherlands, through the Dutch Sports Association

  Amongst growing unrest, South Africa were banned from the Games due to opposition against its

Montreal, Toronto hosted the Paralympics.The Games faced several boycotts due to the participation of South

Africa whose policy of apartheid was widely criticised.

By Mike Rowbottom at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonSeptember 8 - Victoria Arlen denied home favourite Ellie Simmonds a third gold medal tonight as she won the Paralympic 100 metres freestyle S6 title in a world-record time of 1min 13.33sec.

start and comfortably fought off a brief challenge from Beijing 2008 gold medallist Kevin Paul of South

Africa and Furong Lin of China.Lin's team-mate Qing Xu (pictured below) proved himself another London

with the organisation's President, Sir Philip Craven, contentiously handing his full backing to the South

We're waiting for the National Paralympic Committee of South Africa to go through the official channels

blades after controversial Paralympic 200m defeatAugust 2012: Pistorius named flag carrier for South

Africa as team departs for Paralympics

with the organisation's President, Sir Philip Craven, contentiously handing his full backing to the South

We're waiting for the National Paralympic Committee of South Africa to go through the official channels

By David Gold at the BMW Pavilion in the Olympic Park in LondonSeptember 4 - Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has claimed that Oscar Pistorius' comments after his defeat in the Paralympic 200 metres T44 final to Brazil's Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira will reopen the debate on whether amputees should be allowed to run in able-bodied events (pictured top).

200m, an event he has never lost in before, as Oliveira crossed the line 0.07 seconds faster than the South

previously questioned the issue of blade length with the International Paralympic Committee (IPC).The South

half made 43 compared to his rival's 46 – meaning his stride length was actually longer.However, the South

blades after controversial Paralympic 200m defeatAugust 2012: Pistorius named flag carrier for South

Africa as team departs for ParalympicsAugust 2012: Pistorius "honoured" to carry South African

the T44 200-metre final, however the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) could still punish the South

after controversial Paralympic 200m defeat August 2012: Pistorius named flag carrier for South

Africa as team departs for ParalympicsAugust 2012: Pistorius "honoured" to carry South African

flag at Olympic Closing CeremonyAugust 2012: Amputee Pistorius still has Olympic medal shot as South

Africa wins relay appeal

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Stadium in LondonSeptember 2 - Oscar Pistorius is not used to finishing behind other Paralympic athletes and it showed here tonight as he reacted poorly to being beaten by Brazil's Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira, losing his long unbeaten record over 200 metres at London 2012.

On his return to the stadium where he had competed in the Olympics last month, the South African was

standing next to him - said that an official meeting would be held tomorrow to discuss the matters the South

this story at [email protected] storiesAugust 2012: Pistorius named flag carrier for South

Africa as team departs for ParalympicsAugust 2012: Pistorius "honoured" to carry South African flag

at Olympic Closing CeremonyAugust 2012: Amputee Pistorius still has Olympic medal shot as South Africa

By Tom Degun at the Olympic Stadium in LondonSeptember 1 - Jason Smyth and Michael McKillop (pictured top) ensured it was a magical night for Ireland as the duo both smashed world records to claim a Paralympic Games gold medal apiece.

a full-house Olympic Stadium.Cuba's Luis Felipe Gutierrez finished a distant second in 11.02 while South

with none more popular than the new 200m T44 mark set by Oscar Pistorius, the double-leg amputee from South

Africa, who recorded a time of 21.30 in his heat."

By David Gold at the Aquatics Centre on the Olympic Park in LondonSeptember 1 - Britain's Ellie Simmonds sent the Aquatics Centre into raptures as she broke the world record in winning a pulsating 400 metres freestyle S6 tussle with controversial American rival Victoria Arlen.

and Louise Sarah Rung from Norway took the gold in the women's 200m freestyle S5.Charles Bouwer of South

Africa won the men's freestyle 50m S13, and Kate Becherer of the United States claimed the women's title

character drained from them by intense media scrutiny.Wayne Rooney, left, during the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South

Africa So essentially, we treat our footballers differently and expect a different standard of