By Tom Degun   October 23 - Coca-Cola will not block plans by London 2012 to let spectators attending the Olympics bring in their own drinks to venues despite its own multi-million pound sponsorship of the Games.

  At the Cricket World Cup in South Africa in 2003, for example, stewards searched fans' cool-boxes

By Tom Degun October 23 - Coca-Cola will not block plans by London 2012 to let spectators attending the Olympics bring in their own drinks to venues despite its own multi-million pound sponsorship of the Games.

sponsoring prevent spectators from bringing in drinks not made by them.At the Cricket World Cup in South

Africa in 2003, for example, stewards searched fans' cool-boxes for its rival's fizzy drinks and a Johannesburg

October 24 - Caster Semenya's gender is being questioned because her critics are jealous that she broke a South

 African junior record held by Zola Budd (pictured), a leading member of Athletics South Africa

Simon Dlamini, the chairman of the ASA finance committee, made the allegation after Harold Adams, South

"   Budd, who is white, earned notoriety in 1984 when, with South Africa banned from

Africa's Olympic governing body, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc

Africa to discuss Semenya’s gender test with her and the Government, had cancelled the trip.

Africa and a report on the said tests sent to the IAAF.

October 24 - Caster Semenya's gender is being questioned because her critics are jealous that she broke a South

 African junior record held by Zola Budd (pictured), a leading member of Athletics South Africa

Simon Dlamini, the chairman of the ASA finance committee, made the allegation after Harold Adams, South

"   Budd, who is white, earned notoriety in 1984 when, with South Africa banned from

Africa's Olympic governing body, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc

Africa to discuss Semenya’s gender test with her and the Government, had cancelled the trip.

Africa and a report on the said tests sent to the IAAF.

October 24 - Caster Semenya's gender is being questioned because her critics are jealous that she broke a South

 African junior record held by Zola Budd (pictured), a leading member of Athletics South Africa

Simon Dlamini, the chairman of the ASA finance committee, made the allegation after Harold Adams, South

"   Budd, who is white, earned notoriety in 1984 when, with South Africa banned from

Africa's Olympic governing body, the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc

Africa to discuss Semenya’s gender test with her and the Government, had cancelled the trip.

Africa and a report on the said tests sent to the IAAF.

October 22 - A Briton who has had a sex-change operation has been appointed by Triathlon South

Africa (TSA) as the high performance manager to oversee preparations for the London 2012 Olympics, it

year.Her main role with TSA will be to help provide managerial, administrative and logistical support for South

officially begin her new role on November 1, will also assist in improving the standard of coaching in South

Africa by conducting coaching courses and presenting lectures, seminars and workshops, thereby transferring

faith in her ability to manage the High Performance Programme, improve the standard of coaching in South

Africa and to lay the foundation for performance excellence by our junior athletes to perform on the

By Duncan Mackay   October 22 - A successful World Cup in South Africa next year will provide

  He said: "The IOC decided to give South America its first Olympics, so the only continent

  Since the end of apartheid and the first elections with universal suffrage in 1994, South Africa

  Next year's World Cup is soccer's first in Africa.

  "Therefore, Africa must wait.

Africa considering bidding for 2020 Olympics  

By Duncan Mackay   October 22 - A successful World Cup in South Africa next year will provide

  He said: "The IOC decided to give South America its first Olympics, so the only continent

  Since the end of apartheid and the first elections with universal suffrage in 1994, South Africa

  Next year's World Cup is soccer's first in Africa.

  "Therefore, Africa must wait.

Africa considering bidding for 2020 Olympics  

By Duncan Mackay   October 22 - A successful World Cup in South Africa next year will provide

  He said: "The IOC decided to give South America its first Olympics, so the only continent

  Since the end of apartheid and the first elections with universal suffrage in 1994, South Africa

  Next year's World Cup is soccer's first in Africa.

  "Therefore, Africa must wait.

Africa considering bidding for 2020 Olympics  

October 20 - The International Olympic Committee has been granted observer status by the United Nations general assembly, it was announced today.

Truce at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and welcomed the first staging of the football World Cup in Africa

, in South Africa next year, in another resolution.

  South African UN Ambassador Baso Sangqu told the General Assembly that the World Cup was

October 20 - The International Olympic Committee has been granted observer status by the United Nations general assembly, it was announced today.

Truce at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and welcomed the first staging of the football World Cup in Africa

, in South Africa next year, in another resolution.

  South African UN Ambassador Baso Sangqu told the General Assembly that the World Cup was

By Mike Rowbottom in London   October 19 - Triple Olympic champion Johann Olav Koss (pictured) has criticised the decision to stop the Olympic Torch Relay from travelling outside host countries.

"Africa often suffers in the same way.

and many great opportunities for investment, but because there are some bad things going on there too Africa

Minister of Youth and Sports for Ghana, applauded the decision to host the next World Cup finals in South

Africa, but said more needed to be done to highlight the host nation.

  "We need to re-think how we look at Africa, and we need to look again at our PR.

By Mike Rowbottom in London   October 19 - Triple Olympic champion Johann Olav Koss (pictured) has criticised the decision to stop the Olympic Torch Relay from travelling outside host countries.

"Africa often suffers in the same way.

and many great opportunities for investment, but because there are some bad things going on there too Africa

Minister of Youth and Sports for Ghana, applauded the decision to host the next World Cup finals in South

Africa, but said more needed to be done to highlight the host nation.

  "We need to re-think how we look at Africa, and we need to look again at our PR.

October 17 - Caster Semenya (pictured), the world 800 metres champion, is set to take university exams despite the row over her gender, her father said, contradicting earlier reports she was too traumatised to study.

"   The IAAF has been criticised in South Africa and abroad for publicly acknowledging tests

  ANC spokesman Jackson Mthembu also called on the IAAF to apologise, and criticised South African

  Leonard Chuene, the President of Athletics South Africa (ASA), has admitted that he knew gender

claims ANC October 2009: ANC threaten to boycott bank over withdrawal of sponsorship September 2009: South

October 16 - Cardiff is hoping to bid the 2022 Commonwealth Games, 64 years after they hosted the Empire Games, they have announced today.

    The Welsh capital city is hoping to enlist the support of the South Wales region

  Others interested include Auckland in New Zealand, Durban in South Africa, the Gold Coast