The pool allocation draw for the 2019 Rugby World Cup will take place in host nation Japan in May 2017, it has been announced here today.

Argentina, Australia, England, France, Georgia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Scotland, South Africa

take solace from winning three of their pool games, including a memorable 34-32 victory over South Africa

Nineteen teams will contest the 2016 World Squash Federation (WSF) Women's World Team Squash Championship, it has been announced after entries closed for the biennial event.

due to compete.The list of participants is completed by Mexico, The Netherlands, New Zealand, South Africa

Pyeongchang 2018 and Tokyo 2020 will be broadcast in the Czech Republic on public channel Česká Televize (CT) after the company signed a deal with Discovery Communications for the two editions of the Olympic Games.

possible,” Kasia Kieli, President of Discovery Networks Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa

It is regularly mentioned by athletes in interviews during the build-up to an Olympic Games about the number of hours they have trained for what could be their only chance at claiming gold on the greatest sporting stage. Their moment in the Olympic spotlight could be just a minute, but it's a potentially life-changing portion of their career. Often it is their different journeys to that point which prove to be the most fascinating.

Based in South Africa, Japan, South Korea, Argentina and a recently launched centre in New Dehli, India

New Zealand have surged to the summit of the International Cricket Council (ICC) Twenty20 world rankings for the first time after they reached the semi-finals of the format’s flagship event in India last month.

ICC World Twenty20 in Sri Lanka.The West Indies have an advantage of three points ahead of South Africa

2015 tournament along with their rivals from across the Tasman Sea, by a commanding 11 points.South Africa

World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) President Sir Craig Reedie President has insisted that the recent suspension of the accreditation of three laboratories will not affect the efficiency of their work in the build-up to this year's Olympic and Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

two.A total of 31 WADA-accredited laboratories now remain in the world, but there are currently none in Africa

A host of Olympic and world champions have gathered in Doha to take part in tomorrow’s season-opener for the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) Diamond League series – and Sebastian Coe is looking to the meeting to provide the kind of entertainment that will draw more young people in to the sport.

progressing to a further three efforts.And 2016 will be the year in which the IAAF Diamond League arrives in Africa

 “If we consider Africa we find that it is one of the main continents in athletics and I think

that it was time for Africa to get into the Diamond League circuit.

Cricket Ireland are targeting reaching Test status by 2020 as part of a new five-year strategic plan, which aims to establish cricket as one of the country’s main sports.

against fellow ICC member nations.Ireland’s men are due to face Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Pakistan, South Africa

The top of the United World Wrestling (UWW) freestyle rankings have remained largely unchanged, despite a flurry of Rio 2016 Olympic qualifying events last month.

Many of the winners at the Africa-Oceania and European qualifiers, held in Algeria’s capital Algiers

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) has suspended the South African Doping Control Laboratory in Bloemfontein until September 30.

of the Moscow Laboratory in Russia last month ©Getty ImagesWADA will be making site visits to South Africa

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has denied that it has splashed out on an all expenses paid trip to the Rio 2016 Olympics for three politicians - which was said to include business class flights.

from the country often observe overseas international events for their own research and planning.South Africa

tradition that has seen selected guests attend the Olympics and Paralympics, Commonwealth Games and Africa

South Africa has already faced criticism for not sending hockey teams to Rio, despite qualification

©Getty Images"In order to protect the integrity of the exercise in sending Team South Africa to any Olympic

oversight role and, secondly to experience a global event that could be potentially hosted in South Africa

Hosts South Africa topped the senior medal standings at the Commonwealth Judo Championships after claiming

the two bronze medallists along with Botswana’s Gavin Mogopa.There were also gold medals for South Africa

Championships took place at the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth ©Judo South Africa

The Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) has played host to a table tennis training camp at the Botswana University of Agriculture and Natural Resources in Gaborone.

and technical manager for national teams and clubs in a number of countries.He became the ITTF’s Africa

Italy's five-time World Championship rowing medallist Niccolò Mornati has been suspended and faces missing the Rio 2016 Olympic Games after testing positive for a banned drug normally used for treating breast cancer, it has been announced. 

he failed a test for the breast cancer drug anastrozole on his return from a training camp in South Africa

Cape Town is to host South Africa's first ever Fistball World Cup in October, it has been announced.

event, due to take place on October 14 and 15, will be organised by the Fistball Association of South Africa

grass variant of volleyball, is a popular sport in Germany and in other countries ©Getty ImagesSouth Africa