By Tom DegunJanuary 7 - The International Cycling Union (UCI) have announced the list of initial places allocated to National Paralympic Committees for the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

Luxembourg, Malaysia, Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Oman, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, South

Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States and Venezuela.The women's countries are: Australia

Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Slovakia, South

Africa, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States.A UCI statement said: "The announcement

eight (final) position.Regular trips over the winters to warm weather and altitude training camps in South

Africa, Australia, United States, French Pyrenees and Kenya have provided the perfect environment for

coached, advised and managed a number of Olympic and World Championship athletes from Britain, Australia, South

By David OwenJanuary 6 - The Vancouver Winter Olympics were one of very few events to challenge the National Football League's (NFL) dominance of a new table outlining the United States's most-viewed sports events of 2010.

and the Closing Ceremony on the same day 21.4 million, putting it in 58th spot.The FIFA World Cup in South

Africa also proved reasonably popular with US audiences, with three matches making the list, headed

By Andrew WarshawJanuary 4 - Sepp Blatter has laid down the gauntlet to any potential challengers by clearly indicating he aims to continue as FIFA President and be re-elected halfway through 2011 for what would be an unprecedented fourth term.

) member, has had a mixed deal in 2010, successfully breaking new ground by taking the World Cup to South

Africa but suffering huge criticism over the decision to stage simultaneous votes for the 2018 and 2022

January 3 - Rio de Janeiro has hired IBM and other major international firms to help bolster its emergency response operations in the build-up to the 2014 FIFA World Cup and the 2016 Olympics and Paralympics.

sporting matches and traffic patterns, too.IBM has set-up similar systems in New York and Gauteng in South

Africa, but the Rio project will take it one step further as a full end-to-end crisis management system

It was this that prompted that Michael Platini's famous comment in South Africa.

After four of our five pool matches with wins against Spain, China, South Africa and a draw against South

and Principe Saudi Arabia Senegal Serbia Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands Somalia South

Africa Spain Sri Lanka Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Syria Tadjikistan Thailand Tonga Trinidad

By Tom DegunOf all the world's many famous Paralympians, it is South African swimming sensation Natalie

champion has already achieved more than most athletes have in a lifetime.Du Toit was born in Cape Town in South

Africa and spent her entire young life there where she attended Wynberg Girls' High School, an institution

A host of swimming experts felt certain that South Africa had a future Olympic champion on their hands

December 18 - The star of this year's football World Cup and three of the most exciting golfers playing today are being cited as among the favourites to win nominations for the 2011 Laureus World Breakthrough of the Year Award.

Thomas Muller (pictured) won the Golden Boot for scoring the most goals in South Africa in the summer

By Tom DegunDecember 15 - C K Wu (pictured), the International Boxing Association (AIBA) President, has claimed he is extremely happy the World Series of Boxing (WSB) has got off to a successful start.

Africa and South America have great potential - the former because of the numerous African boxers who

with another impressive display as they finished runners-up to New Zealand in the Emirates Airlines South

Africa Sevens, part of the HSBC Sevens World Series, at Outeniqua Park.

Kenya and Russia carried them through on Friday (December 10), and yesterday Ryan's troops defeated the South

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearDecember 8 - Cardiff has been chosen as the pre-London 2012 training camp by Trinidad and Tobago, whose team is expected to include sprinter Richard Thompson who is set to be one of Usain Bolt's main challengers at the Olympics.

The Caribbean country are the first Olympic team to sign-up to train in Wales and join Australia and South

Africa, whose Paralympic squads have already announced that they will base themselves there before the

December 4 - England clinched the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens title, part of the HSBC Sevens World Series, with a 29-21 victory over reigning world series champions Samoa.

South Africa went on to win the Plate competition, defeating Australia 19-12 in the final, while Argentina

By Duncan MackayBritish Sports Internet Writer of the YearDecember 5 - South Africa's bid for the 2020

Africa on the way they hosted the World Cup," he told the delegates, who included IOC Executive

The overall principle is that South Africa is prepared to host the Summer Olympics."

Africa candidate for 2020 OlympicsJuly 2010: Africa is 20 years away from hosting the Olympics, claims

senior IOC memberJuly 2010: South Africa officially enter race for 2020 OlympicsJuly 2010: Rogge - It

is up to South Africa to decide whether to bid for Olympics