New Zealand's Val Smith played the 500th match of her career today at the World Bowls Championships in Christchurch, but it was a day to forget for the experienced bowler as the Kiwi women's triples team lost all three of their games.

South Africa denied Smith a win in her celebratory match as her team, also consisting of Katelyn Inch

hosts 13-11.The English team went on to make it six wins from six games after they also beat South Africa

New Zealand's Jo Edwards and Angela Boyd secured a vital win over Australia as they went unbeaten on the opening day of the women's pairs competition at the World Bowls Championships in Christchurch.

Boyd were the only team to secure three wins in their pairs section, while Wales, Scotland and South Africa

Club.Scotland, skipped by Alex Marshall who is widely regarded as the top male bowler in the world, and South Africa

Sepp Blatter has been unsuccessful in his appeal at the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) against a six-year ban from all footballing activity.

CHF23 million (£18 million/$23 million/€21 million) in December 2010 following the World Cup in South Africa

Airline sponsorships have been permitted by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take place outside the designated international promotion phase of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games bid process.

during the campaign.This included long-haul Airbus A380 and Boeing 777 flights to Asia, the Americas, Africa

and Oceania, and medium-haul A320 Airbus flights to Europe, Africa and the Middle East.A marketing campaign

Tournament debutants Japan secured a ninth-place finish at the Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup after beating Asian rivals China 2-0 at the Club Deportivo Manquehue in Santiago today.

fans the fairytale ending by scoring the decisive goal.New Zealand finished 13th after beating South Africa

8-2 ©FIHEarlier in the day, New Zealand defeated South Africa 8-2 in the 13th-place play-off following

Nigeria have won the Africa Women's Cup of Nations for a tenth time after a 1-0 win over hosts Cameroon

opportunities count.In the second-half, Oparanozie, who also scored the winner in the semi-final against South Africa

becoming the first individual to win the tournament as both a player and coach.Ghana had edged South Africa

South Africa produced a fine display to claim the season’s first men’s HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series

We just needed to stick to our game plan and structure and that's exactly what the guys did," South Africa

South Africa thrashed New Zealand 40-0 in the quarter-finals on their way to the Dubai Sevens Cup title

to finish fifth, while the United States secured the Challenge Trophy by beating Samoa 28-14.South Africa

Television coverage of the Women’s European Handball Championships is set to be available in 135 countries as Norway prepare to begin their title defence when the tournament is due get underway in Sweden tomorrow.

Kristianstad and Helsingborg.BeIN Sports will broadcast the tournament in the Middle East and North Africa

Argentina will play The Netherlands in the final of the Women’s Junior Hockey World Cup after both teams came through their last-four encounters at the Club Deportivo Manquehue in Chile’s capital Santiago.

classification matches, the 15th-place play-off.This will be followed by New Zealand’s clash with South Africa

On Monday (December 5), a five-day inspection of preparations for the 2018 Commonwealth Games in the Gold Coast is due to begin in the beautiful Australian city, with Coordination Commission members likely to be greeted by glorious weather and a genuine feeling of warmth for the event from local residents.

, organisers have a bigger hill than the nearby Drakensberg, the highest mountain range in Southern Africa

, to climb - even with six years still to prepare for the first Commonwealth Games in Africa.

were replaced by London due to concerns about how black and Asian athletes would be treated in South Africa

Ghana edged South Africa 1-0 to claim the bronze medal at the Africa Women Cup of Nations at the Stade

scored the winner on 49 minutes when she headed the ball home from close range following a corner.South Africa

in an encounter in which they were by far the better side for large periods.In the first half South Africa

almost paid dividends for the South Africans but it proved too late as Ghana held on for victory.South Africa

New Zealand got revenge for their defeat to Australia in the final of the OIympic Games in Rio de Janeiro as they beat their arch-rivals 17-5 to clinch victory at the opening World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series event of the season in Dubai.

season-opener by sweeping aside Russia 24-5 in the last four, which came after they had thrashed South Africa

Fiji were among four countries to reach the quarter-finals with an unbeaten record, along with South Africa

ensured they completed their Pool A campaign with a third straight win by beating Argentina 22-19.South Africa

12.Fiji will clash with France in the quarter-finals tomorrow, while Olympic bronze medallists South Africa

Usain Bolt earned a record sixth World Athlete of the Year award here tonight after acknowledging the efforts by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) to reform itself in the wake of the scandal that has beset the sport within the last year.

ceremony, where he was overwhelming favourite to win ahead of challengers Wayde van Niekerk of South Africa

The Gambia National Olympic Committee (GNOC) has hosted a session of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Adecco's Athlete Career Outreach Programme (ACP) at the Olympic House at Mile 7 in Bakau.

The workshop was delivered by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) Athlete

Croatian brothers Martin and Valent Sinkovic are among the Rio 2016 gold medallists who have been named as winners in the 2016 World Rowing Awards honours list announced today.

, who has spearheaded the development of elite rowing in his country.Four years after guiding South Africa

, and Africa as a whole, to its first-ever Olympic gold medal in rowing with success in the men’s lightweight

coxless fours, he took a squad of five boats to Rio - the biggest South Africa has ever fielded at a