April 5 - Adelaide is considering a bid to host the 2013 World Cup Rugby Sevens, the sport's leading administrator in Australia said today.

O'Neill, the chief executive of the Australian Rugby Union (ARU), said that they had held talks with the South

South Africa won the tournament with a 26-7 victory over Kenya in the final yesterday.

   April 5 - Adelaide is considering a bid to host the 2013 World Cup Rugby Sevens, the sport's leading administrator in Australia said today.

O'Neill, the chief executive of the Australian Rugby Union (ARU), said that they had held talks with the South

South Africa won the tournament with a 26-7 victory over Kenya in the final yesterday.

following a visit by the president of the National Olympic Committee, Floriano Massah (pictured) to the South

Malawi, which gained its independence from Britain in 1964, is located in southeast Africa and has a

They included Zahra Pinto, a 14-year-old swimmer who has to travel to South Africa to train in an Olympic-sized

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic ParkApril 3 - President Lula of Brazil (pictured), seeking to win the 2016 Games for Rio, made an impassioned plea for the Olympic Movement to recognise the new realities of world economic power after visiting London’s site today.

progress within the 2012 Olympic Park, insisted that now was the time for the Games to be awarded to South

We have also seen the emergence of China, India and South Africa."

April 2 - India is safe for holding sporting events, including the Commonwealth Games, and sporting events will go on as scheduled, Indian Sports Minister M.S. Gill (pictured) said today.

Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore last month, and the shifting of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to South

Africa, there have been apprehensions, especially among the Australians, if India was safe for sports

visit to Sydney and Melbourne, that there was no need to shift Davis Cup to be held from May 6 to 8 in South

"I made it clear to Australia that IPL being moved out to South Africa was not because of India's inability

  By Martin Gillingham - 2 April 2009 Two days, above all others, have convinced me that athletics has to change. The first was the second evening session at the Olympic Games in Beijing.  

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

By Martin Gillingham - 25 March 2009   In 2004, a bunch of South Africans waving wads of cash

The Tribe was to be a fully professional outfit funded by one of the world’s richest men (another South

The business plan is much the same – buy control of a club, stock it with a handful of top-flight South

Saracens are 50 per cent owned by a Johannesburg investment firm with similar interests in two of South

Griffiths does, though, boast a stunning cv from his time spent in South Africa during the Eighties and

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

By Martin Gillingham - 25 March 2009   In 2004, a bunch of South Africans waving wads of

Africa’s leading sides, the Bulls and Western Province.

  Griffiths does, though, boast a stunning cv from his time spent in South Africa during the Eighties

Africa’s bid to host the 2010 football World Cup.

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

    By Martin Gillingham - 18 March 2009   Until quite recently, UK Athletics employed a convicted British drugs cheat on not one but two salaries. A fortnight ago, they picked another for the British team at the European indoor championships, his umpteenth in a red, white and blue vest, since being banned for taking drugs.

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

March 17 - There will be eight bidders lined up against England for the right to host the 2018 World Cup, FIFA announced today.

Qatar and South Korea are only bidding for the 2022 tournament, which will be awarded at the same time

who compete in the event, is a strong favorite to host in 2018 after the 2010 finals were awarded to South

Africa and the 2014 tournament to Brazil.  

March 17 - Jonah Lomu today became the latest international star to throw his weight behind rugby’s campaign for Olympic re-inclusion at the 2016 Games.  

quarter-finals in Dubai – the first of four upsets in the round of eight that also saw England, South

Africa and New Zealand crash out.  

March 17 - Jonah Lomu today became the latest international star to throw his weight behind rugby’s campaign for Olympic re-inclusion at the 2016 Games.  

quarter-finals in Dubai – the first of four upsets in the round of eight that also saw England, South

Africa and New Zealand crash out.  

March 15 - South Africa's athletes, including swimmer Roland Schoeman (pictured), are to receive cutting-edge

It is another boost for South African sport after it was announced last month that a R400 million (£27.5

2002 and is based at the University of Pretoria, and is the first facility of its kind in southern Africa

medals at the 2004 Olympics in Athens, including a gold in the 4x100 metres relay - the only title that South

Africa have won in the last three Games.  

Gideon Sam, the new president of the South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC)