JULY 18 - DOUBLE-AMPUTEE sprinter Oscar Pistorius (pictured) will not compete for South Africa against

Athletics South Africa president Leonard Chuene said four other runners had faster times, and two others

 ENGLAND and Scotland had another successful day at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, winning four gold medals, four silver and three bronze between them.

58.43 metres, nearly eight metres further than the best throw of silver medallist Maria Badenhorst from South

Africa. 

He beat Warren Karsten of South Africa and Singapore's Jia Hao Ng into second and third place respectively

  SEPP BLATTER (pictured), the President of FIFA, tonight handed England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup a massive boost when he appeared to rule out five of their biggest rivals.

all of who would be attractive and unusual host countries, as the 2010 event is due to take place in South

Africa.  

    SOUTH AFRICA'S successful Paralympic team, led by swimmer Natalie du Toit (pictured) and sprinter

  South Africa finished sixth in the final medals at the Paralympics in Beijing, winning 30 medals

The fund is the biggest offered to the South African Paralympic team since they were readmitted to world

silver medal in the long jump at the Olympics, received R500,000 (£28,130) from an incentive fund from South

He was also given a further R1 million (£56,410) by Athletics South Africa.  

    HARLOW shooter James Huckle (pictured) crowned a memorable debut for England by winning his third gold medal today in the men’s 10 metre rifle competition at the Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India.  

to her personal best in the women’s 800m to take the silver medal behind Mokgadi Caster Semanya of South

Africa, who set a Games record, while Shaunagh Brown from Gillingham took bronze in the women’s discus

  RICK PARRY (pictured), the chief executive of Liverpool Football Club, is set to be the shock choice to head up England's bid to host the 2018 World Cup, as DAVID OWEN exclusively reveals

Africa because it was attracting substantial new investment into the game.  

There has been “a fundamental shift in the commercial nature of the game in South Africa,” Mosola told

Africa was awarded the tournament.  

It is clear too that if South Africa don’t win the competition (all but impossible without further massive

Big year for South Africa   The other point that had escaped me is what a big year for South African

 BRITAIN'S young swimmers in action on the FINA World Cup series rounded off the tour of Stockholm and Berlin with more medal winning performances today.

Gold went to Katheryn Meaklim of South Africa in 4min 29.41sec , Smithurst touched in 4:34.11 and bronze

In the women's event it was Germany's Theresa Michalak who won gold in 2:10.92 while bronze went to South

  PREPARATIONS for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi will be top of the agenda when officials gather in Banjul, Gambia, for the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) annual assembly, which starts tomorrow.

It hosted the South Pacific Games in 2007.  

This will be the first CGF assembly to be held in Africa since Kenya was the host 22 years ago.  

  JULY 13 - BRITAIN'S Stephanie Twell (pictured) and Emma Pallant claimed the gold and bronze medals in the 1500 metres at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz today.

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  JULY 28 - GETTING rugby sevens into the Olympics is one of the key recommendations of a new report into the future of the sport published today.

report said that 97 per cent of the 33 million people who watched last year's World Cup final between South

Africa and England came from the eight so-called foundation countries - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland

, France, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.  

  JULY 28 - GETTING rugby sevens into the Olympics is one of the key recommendations of a new report into the future of the sport published today.

report said that 97 per cent of the 33 million people who watched last year's World Cup final between South

Africa and England came from the eight so-called foundation countries - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland

, France, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa.  

  FIFA PRESIDENT Sepp Blatter today called England a "strong candidate" to host the 2018 World Cup but said he expects the bidding process to be fair and highly competitive.

favourites to win the 2018 event, which is widely expected to be awarded to Europe after it is staged in South

Africa in 2010 and Brazil in 2014.  

  FIFA'S announcement yesterday that they will award the 2018 and 2022 simultaneously has dramatically raised the stakes but as Andy Anson, the chief executive of England's bid, exclusively tells DAVID OWEN it will not affect his focus

of the world to focus primarily on 2022 in anticipation of Europe [as well as the 2014 host region South

And after staging two consecutive World Cups - South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014 - outside the sport’

For example, there can be no African or South American bidders for the 2018 competition and South American

  SPAIN is England's biggest rival in the race to host the 2018 World Cup, the chairman of the Football Association claimed today.

I would like to think after several years in the southern hemisphere [2010 in South Africa, 2014 in Brazil

  JAPAN is set to bid to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, despite Tokyo already hoping to stage the 2016 Olympics, it was announced today.

Japan co-hosted the 2002 World Cup tournament with neighbouring South Korea.  

It is widely expected that the 2018 tournament will be awarded to Europe because South Africa are hosting