By Duncan MackayJune 22 - Bavarian Prime Minister Horst Seehofer is to join German supporters on a special fan flight to Durban to offer his backing to Munich's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

The specially-chartered Lufthansa plane will touch down in South Africa on on the eve of the vote on

Ampie Louw, the long-standing coach of four-time Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius, has backed the South

Pistorius ran a personal best of 45.61sec in the 400 metres in South Africa in March but looks set

By Duncan MackayJune 15 - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak is to show his support for Pyeongchang's

South Africa's Sam Ramsamy, who is also a member of the IOC, revealed that Lee will be attending the

Pyeongchang's bid...is a national priority and we are delighted that our delegation in Durban will be led by South

Winter Olympics and Sochi for 2014.Lee will spearhead an impressive Korean team that will also include South

"We have already had confirmation that German and South Korean Presidents are also expected to be in

In the 117 years of the IOC, this event has never been hosted in Africa.

By Duncan MackayJune 15 - South Africa could still launch a bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics

South Africa has until September 1 to submit bid documents to the International Olympic Committee (IOC

South Africa's Cabinet said it had considered a request by the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee

African Tourism Services Association, told·the South African press that the decision to pull the

Africa to launch bid for 2022 Commonwealth GamesMay 2011: South Africa will not bid for 2020 Olympics

after Government decisionMay 2011: Exclusive - South Africa hope to make decision on 2020 Olympic bid

By Tom DegunJune 12 - Paralympic sprint stars Oscar Pistorius of South Africa and Jason Smyth of Ireland

By Duncan MackayJune 12 - Olympic skating champion Kim Yu-Na is set to put in the air miles during the next few weeks on behalf of Pyeongchang's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics by travelling to represent them in Lome before jetting to Durban for the final presentation.

The South Korean teenager is due first to be part of Pyeongchang's delegation when, along with rivals

Annecy and Munich, they will make a presentation to the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

television show, "Kiss and Cry" - where singers show off their figure skating skills -·with IU, one of South

By Tom DegunJune 2 - South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius admits that he does not expect to

Championships in Daegu and the London 2012 Olympics.He ran a personal best of 45.61sec in the 400m in South

Africa in March but he needs a time under 45.25 by June 20 to automatically qualify for the World Championships.That

same time would also likely earn the South African a spot at the London 2012 Olympics as the qualifying

athletics programme for 2012March 2011: Pistorius secures qualifying time for London 2012 Olympics in South

Africa

By Duncan MackayJune 2 - South Africa are planning to launch a campaign to host the 2022 Commonweatlh

The event has been never staged in Africa and a bid from South Africa will be welcomed by the Commonwealth

African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASOC),"It has never been to Africa and so we want

 South Africa was widely expected to bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics following the success

Africa had previously stepped back to allow other countries to bid for the Commonwealth Games."

Africa will not bid for 2020 Olympics after Government decision

By Mike RowbottomMay 31 - Usain Bolt won his second 100 metres in the space of five days at tonight's Ostrava Golden Spike meeting, recording the same time as he had at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Rome – 9.91sec.

South Africa;s LJ van Zyl equalled his world-leading performance of 47.66 in the 400m hurdles, with Britain's

By Tom DegunMay 31 - Double Paralympic gold medallist Jason Smyth will continue to enhance his growing reputation against the world's best able-bodied sprinter as he lines up on the blocks in next month's prestigious Samsung Diamond League meeting in New York.

fitness.The Diamond League meeting in New York will also see Smyth's fellow Paralympian Oscar Pistorius of South

Africa compete in the 400m, as he looks to secure the Olympic and World Championship A qualification

standard of 45.25.Pistorius' current person best of 45.61, which he set earlier this year in South Africa

May 29 - South Africa staged a superb comeback to beat Australia 36-35 and win the Emirates Airline Edinburgh

most remarkable turnaround performances by any team in a HSBC Sevens World Series Cup final.Injury-hit South

Africa, who had only two fit reserves available for the final, came back from being 7-28 down to snatch

HSBC Sevens World series standings with 140 points, 16 behind champions New Zealand.Paul Treu, the South

"They refused to give in and South Africa can be very proud of these young men."

The New Zealanders dominated the series, finishing on 166 points, 26 clear of second-placed South Africa

And, in 2010, the year of the World Cup in South Africa, FIFA made $2.408 million (£1.459 million) 

The South African World Cup generated $1.072 billion (£649 million), the marketing income from the other

Britain has an outstanding sporting distinction looming on the horizon – that of hosting the Commonwealth Games immediately after an Olympics.And all those involved in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow are proceeding in the expectation that it will benefit from the huge surge of energy and interest the London 2012 Games engenders.It is not quite a unique opportunity - one other nation experienced this particular sporting double when Canada staged the 1978 Commonwealths - the first to bear the current name of "Commonwealth Games"- in Edmonton two years after the Montreal Olympics.

African nations which had boycotted the 1976 Olympics because of a New Zealand rugby tour to apartheid South

Africa were not provoked once again.Glasgow 2014, thankfully, will not have to address such issues.Indeed

By Duncan MackayMay 26 - South Africa will not launch a bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics after

South Africa's Cabinet said it had considered a request by the SA Sports Confederation and Olympic

week that they would not bid unless they have the full support of President Jacob Zuma and the rest of South

World Cup for now and rather focus the country's attention on the delivery of basic services to all South

the writer of this story at [email protected] storiesMay 2011: Exclusive - South

Africa hope to make decision on 2020 Olympic bid this monthMay 2011: IOC officially launch bid process

By Duncan MackayMay 24 - South Africa are hoping to make a decision by the end of the month about whether

Johannesburg and Port Elizabeth have all expressed an interest in bidding for the Games but the South

still waiting to hear whether the Government will back a campaign to try to become the first city in Africa

to host the event.There is strong support for a South African bid following the success of last year's

Under the bid procedures launched yesterday by the IOC, South Africa has until September 1 to nominate

Africa must decide on candidate for 2020 Olympics says Sports Minister