By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 28 - South Africa's hopes of

country could cope with at the moment despite the success of the FIFA World Cup will be a major jolt to South

overseeing Rio de Janeiro's preparations for the 2016 Games, the first time they have been staged in South

"I know South Africa did a wonderful job with the FIFA World Cup, right from the airport, going

Africa has many unique problems and other priorities to handle at the moment.

Africa officially enter race for 2020 Olympics July 2010: Rogge - It is up to South Africa to decide

July 28 - Lufthansa has christened one of its new A380 aircraft "Munich" to help promote the city's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics.

"Hopefully next July, they will be sharing our celebrations on the journey back from South Africa

By Duncan Mackay in London British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 25 - Britain's Alistair Brownlee hit the wall in spectacular fashion as he suffered his first-ever defeat in the Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championships Series in Hyde Park here today as Spain's Javier Gomez won his second consecutive race.

caps comeback with sensational World Championship series victory March 2010: You can keep Florida and South

Africa, Yorkshire is where my heart is says Brownlee

By Mike Rowbottom July 23 - Britain’s world champion Alistair Brownlee will defend his title on Sunday (July 25) in the World Championship event that takes place in Hyde Park, the triathlon venue for London 2012.

caps comeback with sensational World Championship series victory March 2010: You can keep Florida and South

Africa, Yorkshire is where my heart is says Brownlee March 2010: Brownlee waits on scan to find out

pictured), the President of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), has encouraged Africa

The success of the tournament has led to South Africa launching a bid for the 2020 Olympics and Diack

"But what South Africa did proved them wrong.

"South Africa has proved to the world that we are ready and what we are waiting for is a city to

"   The earliest Africa could stage the event would be in 2017.

Africa officially enter race for 2020 Olympics July 2010: Rogge - It is up to South Africa to decide

July 18 - Sweden's Lisa Norden won a thrilling sprint finish against Australia's world champion Emma Moffatt to claim victory in today's Dextro Energy Triathlon ITU World Championship Hamburg as Ireland's Aileen Morrison made a major breakthrough to finish third.

" Rounding out the top five were Kate Roberts of South Africa in fourth and Vicky Holland of Britain

By Mike Rowbottom July 16 - Triple world record holder Usain Bolt had said he was capable of running 9.70sec in tonight’s Samsung Diamond League meeting in Paris, but he managed to beat his fellow Jamaicans Asafa Powell and Yohan Blake with a time of 9.84 on an evening when David Oliver (pictured) came within two hundredths of a second of the world 110 metres hurdles record.

still far, far, too good for the rest of the field and was a magisterial winner in 1:43.50, beating South

Africa’s world champion Mbulaeni Mulaudzi into second place.

By Mike Rowbottom A group of female athletes are lying on mats by the running track attached to Tonbridge School, in Kent. They are being taken through core exercises, designed to strengthen the body, by Tonbridge’s famous favourite daughter - Kelly Holmes. Dressed in black shorts and crop top, Holmes, who turned 40 this year, still has the lean look of a competing athlete, although she insists that nowadays, with her commitments to the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust and her work as President of Commonwealth Games England, she hardly gets time to train.

In fact, it’s South African weather...

Six years ago, in the South African city of Potchefstroom, the newly adorned Olympic 800 and 1500 metres

"It could have been the case that Kelly came over to South Africa for part of the time to get things

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 14 - David Beckham has revealed that he still harbours ambitions of playing for Britain at the London 2012 Olympics when he will be 37.

Beckham, who is currently recovering from the Achilles injury that kept him out of the World Cup in South

Africa, hopes to carry on playing until the 2014 World Cup in Brazil.But the bookmakers do not rate

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 14 - London 2012 are to launch the first-ever Olympic and Paralympic sticker collection after confirming that Panini has become an licensee of the Games.

from football collections, to pop, to TV series and toy brands, including the FIFA World Cup in South

Africa, which finished earlier this month.

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 13 - South Africa will bid to host

The decision to put themselves forward followed a Board meeting of the South African Sports

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge, who met with South Africa President

Jacob Zuma in Johannesburg on Sunday, had always said that they would welcome a bid from South Africa

, especially as Africa is the only continent never to have been awarded the Games.

Africa to decide whether to bid for Olympics July 2010: Cape Town refuse to commit to Olympic bid for

July 12 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge claimed today that South

 Africa hosting the Olympics and Paralympics would be a natural progression after successfully 

"From the start, when South Africa were named as World Cup hosts, we all knew the country would

"This country has hosted a very successful All Africa Games [in 1999], a Rugby World Cup [in 1995

" Rogge (pictured third from right) held informal discussions with South African President Jacob

Gideon Sam, the President of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (

African public want us to bid for Olympics admits President June 2010: Exclusive - South Africa could

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 12 - Britain's Sports Journalists' Association (SJA) are to seek an urgent meeting with London 2012 officials over proposals from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to sell some seats usually reserved for the media to the public.

empty seats in stadiums that were supposed to be sold-out that overshadowed the FIFA World Cup in South

Africa and the Beijing Olympics in 2008.

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 12 - A new study released today claims that if Australia is chosen to host the 2022 World Cup it will be worth $35.5 billion (£20.6 billion) for the country's economy - more than four times the amount generated by the Sydney Olympics.

Australia's bid as the campaign moves into a critical new phase following the end of the World Cup in South

Africa.

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year July 11 - The Olympics is a "second-class" event compared to the FIFA World Cup, Formula One President Bernie Ecclestone claimed today.

The 79-year-old admitted that the success of the World Cup in South Africa had shown him the potential

that Africa offers but he was concentrating first on establishing a race in Russia.

"Africa is limited for all the people who are involved in F1 for business, whereas Russia is wide