OCTOBER 19 - THE British Volleyball Federation (BVF) have been busy interviewing prospective candidates to oversee preparations for the 2012 Olympics from the 120 applications received.

 Applications came from every part of the World including South America, North  America, Europe, Asia

and Africa.  

  OCTOBER 19 - THE British Volleyball Federation (BVF) have been busy interviewing prospective candidates to oversee preparations for the 2012 Olympics from the 120 applications received.

  Applications came from every part of the World including South America, North  America, Europe,

Asia and Africa.  

  SEPTEMBER 11 - ENGLAND'S team manager Pete Nicholson (pictured) today claimed he was happy with his side's performance at the World Hockey Cup in Moenchengladbach despite them failing to qualify for the semi-final.

England are now fourth in Pool B, four points off a semi-final spot with one group game left, against South

Africa.

  SEPTEMBER 10 - GERMANY inflicted a potentially fatal blow on England's hockey players at they beat them 2-1 in the third match of their World Cup campaign in Moechengladbach today.

  With Holland and South Africa still to play in Group B, England face an extremely tough task if

  SEPTEMBER 7 - ENGLAND'S hockey players came from behind to beat India 3-2 in their opening World Cup match in Moechengladbach today.

England face Korea in Pool B tomorrow and then take on hosts Germany on Sunday, Holland on Monday and South

Africa next Wednesday.  

  SEPTEMBER 7 - ENGLAND'S hockey players came from behind to beat India 3-2 in their opening World Cup match in Moechengladbach today.

England face Korea in Pool B tomorrow and then take on hosts Germany on Sunday, Holland on Monday and South

Africa next Wednesday.  

  JUNE 25 - LONDON'S brilliant promotional video, credited with having last July helped the Capital win the bid to stage the 2012 Olympic Games, is to be turned into a Hollywood film.   Daryl Goodrich, director of the original which cost just £400,000 to make, and Caroline Rowland, the producer, will also make the Hollywood version, a £19 million production by Paramount studios due to be released on the eve of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. They have been advised by David Puttnam, director of Chariots of Fire.

The children in the film were a Mexican who wanted to become a cyclist; a South African runner; a Chinese

international level in karate; Rowland, who was born in Britain and has lived here for 18 years, swam for South

Africa.  

    JUNE 23 - SHEFFIELD’S next move to raise its profile on the international sporting stage ahead of the 2012 Olympics and Paralympics will be at the Wheelchair Basketball Congress in Holland next month.  

rsquo;s teams and eight women’s teams from countries including Australia, Canada, USA, Brazil, South

Africa and Japan are attending the congress which combines the 2006 Gold Cup event from July 3-16.

part of the festival, an Inter-Empire Championships were held in which teams from Australia, Canada, South

Africa and the United Kingdom competed in boxing, wrestling, swimming and track and field athletics.

the Edmonton Games saw many boycotts from the African nations because of a New Zealand rugby tour of South

Africa, who were banned from competing in most international sporting events due their policy of apartheid

about because of the Thatcher Government's attitude towards British sporting links with apartheid-era South

Africa.

South Africa return to the Games Following a 36 year absence from the Commonwealth Games, South

Africa returned to the XV Games which were held in Canada for the fourth time.

With the apartheid era over and with their reinstatement to the Commonwealth in 1991, South Africa

The return of South Africa to the Commonwealth Games ensured that the era of threatened boycotts was

November 29 - The 10 sportsmen and women who will battle it out for this year's BBC Sports Personality of the Year award have been revealed.

opponents on the international cricket scene in 2010, producing brilliant displays in Test series against South

Africa, Bangladesh and Pakistan, while Haye delivered two successful defences of his world heavyweight

March 30 - Fiji's win in the prestigious Hong Kong Sevens event shows the increased global appeal of rugby as it bids to regain its Olympic status, the International Rugby Board's (IRB) Bernard Lapasset claimed today.

  The Fijians defeated South Africa 26-24 in thrilling final in front of a full house of 40,000 fans

March 31 - 2010 will be Africa’s year as far as football is concerned.  

The main reason, of course, is South Africa’s World Cup.  

Furthermore, with Lord Coe having taken a leave of absence as chairman of FIFA’s Ethics Committee, Africa