McArthur was born in Dervock on February 10 1881 but emigrated to South Africa 20 years later.  

His victory in Stockholm ws controversial because, representing South Africa, McArthur and his teammate

He died in South Africa aged 79.

    By Martin Gillingham - 21 April 2009   A group of would-be Olympian women ski jumpers are suing organisers of the Vancouver Winter Olympics because they believe they’re being discriminated against. Meanwhile, the debate rages on over why riders likes Victoria Pendleton are unfairly treated because the women’s track cycling programme at the summer games doesn’t mirror quite so purely the men’s in the way it does at the sport’s World Championships.

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter

April 16 - China made history today when it chose its first-ever black player for a senior national squad when Ding Hiu was picked for the volleyball squad to prepare for London 2012.

  Ding's father is from South Africa, but he was brought up by his mother in Hangzhou, the capital

April 16 - Rugby sevens hopes of being admitted to the Olympic programme for the 2016 Games have been boosted by record television figures at the World Cup in Dubai last month.

as Europe and Oceania, there has been significant growth across emerging markets such as North and South

America, Asia and Africa where live coverage of the tournament was more than double that of 2005 levels

April 16 - Rugby sevens hopes of being admitted to the Olympic programme for the 2016 Games have been boosted by record television figures at the World Cup in Dubai last month.

as Europe and Oceania, there has been significant growth across emerging markets such as North and South

America, Asia and Africa where live coverage of the tournament was more than double that of 2005 levels

April 16 - India has sent eight of its most promising young runners to South Africa as part of a new

includes sprinters and middle-distance runners, aged between 17 and 25 have moved to Durban to train under South

who were based in Newham last year and competed in meetings in Britain.The plan to base the group in South

Africa in the build-up to London 2012 is expected to cost up to more than £100,000 a year.The group

I have already been to South Africa for a 20-day training camp and I thoroughly enjoyed it."

By Martin Gillingham - 15 April 2009   My grandfather’s been dead for more than 25 years but one of my abiding memories of the old boy is sitting in front of a crackling fire on a midwinter’s afternoon and being told how he, as a 19-year-old lad, had been at the 1923 FA Cup Final between Bolton and West Ham.  

Sixteen months earlier South Africa had been teetering on the brink of civil war, now black and white

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter

Sixteen months earlier South Africa had been teetering on the brink of civil war, now black and white

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter

April 11 - Lesotho, the tiny African enclave, has began preparing for the London 2012 Olympics with the hope of improving its performances and perhaps winning the country's first ever medal.

Lesotho, which is surrounded entirely by South Africa and has a population of only 1.7 million, made

April 10 - Cities across the United States, including the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles, which hosted the 1994 World Cup final, have been contacted to see if they want to be involved in the country's bid for 2018 and 2022.

South Africa needed to build or rebuild every stadium for next year's tournament, and Brazil is contemplating

interest in bidding for 2018 or 2022 have come from Australia, Japan, Qatar, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia and South

    By Dame Kelly Holmes - 8 April 2009   When Leona Lewis sang at the closing ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing, I found myself wondering why she did not sing 'A moment like this'. It seemed such a fitting song given the momentous occasion of the handover to 2012. If I had been a world class singer and not a double Olympic Champion, that's what I would have burst into song with when I had the opportunity to attend the dinner hosted by the Prime Minister's wife, Sarah Brown for the wives of the G20 World Leaders last week.

So flying off to South Africa where some of the girls on my ‘On Camp with Kelly’ mentoring initiative

So flying off to South Africa where some of the girls on my ‘On Camp with Kelly’ mentoring

    By Martin Gillingham - 7 April 2009   Few with a golfing bent will disagree that this weekend is one of the three most significant of the year – it’s the Masters at Augusta.  

It is an enduring hypocrisy that at the same time as South Africa was excluded from international sport

so the sporting world would focus its attention for one week every year on a golf club in America’s south

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter

It is an enduring hypocrisy that at the same time as South Africa was excluded from international sport

so the sporting world would focus its attention for one week every year on a golf club in America’s south

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter