reached their first quarter-final of the 2013-2014 HSBC Sevens World Series as England, South Africa and New

Zealand won all their games on the opening day at the Prince Chichibu Memorial Ground in Tokyo. 

Africa in the quarter-finals with the unbeaten Fiji set to play Kenya.South Africa, runners-up to hosts New

Zealand in the last leg of the Series, recorded comfortable wins against Argentina, Kenya and Japan

encounters with Spain and Scotland.They will now face Canada in the with runners-up Australia meeting New

Portugal on the way to an impressive six tries on the opening day of action at the Tokyo Sevens ©IRBNew Zealand

Ground tomorrow with the quarters, semis and finals of the Cup, Bowl, Shield and Plate competitions.New Zealand

By Zjan ShirinianMarch 22 - The Turkish Basketball Federation (TBF) has named the person who will lead its men's team through to Rio 2016.

are due to begin their 2014 campaign, for which they have been given a wildcard, on August 30 against New

Zealand, with their group also containing the United States, Dominican Republic, Finland and Ukraine.Turkey

successful coaches in Europe, and I believe that for Turkish basketball this will mark the beginning of a new

By Paul OsborneMarch 21 - Stoke Mandeville Stadium is getting set to host the 2014 International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting World Cup, an event that will have added importance because it is the first opportunity to begin earning qualifying points for Rio 2016. 

2013: IPC Shooting World Cup returns to birthplace of ParalympicsMay 2013: Johnson to lead Paralympics New

Zealand shooting team at UK World Cup in Stoke Mandeville

By Gary AndersonMarch 21 – Eleven nations will take to the field in Whitehorse, Canada after the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC) revealed the line-up for this year's Men's Under-19 Youth Softball World Championships, which will run from July 11 to 20.

2012 and they will head to Canada in search of a fifth under-19 world crown, while two-time winners New

Zealand also make the trip to North America.European representation comes in the form of the Czech Republic

by Summerside in 1989 and 2005, St John's in 1997, while Whitehorse also hosted the 2008 event.New Zealand

By Gary AndersonMarch 19 - Fiji's participation in team events at Glasgow 2014 is "under consideration" following their reinstatement into the Commonwealth, insidethegames can reveal.

seizing power, Bainimarama has now promised to hold fresh elections in September this year while a new

StoriesMarch 2014: Fiji reinstated into Commonwealth paving way for Glasgow 2014 participationAugust 2011: New

Zealand bans head of Fiji Rugby Union from attending World CupMarch 2010: Fiji wait to hear whether

The next Rugby League World Cup will be jointly hosted by Australia and New Zealand in 2017 and I'm sure

By Gary AndersonMarch 17 - Ahead of the upcoming Hong Kong Sevens at the end of this month, Sevens World Series sponsors HSBC has enlisted the help of some of the game's biggest stars to take part in a special promotional video challenging fans around the world to "bring their game".

DJ Forbes, Tim Mikkelson and Tomasi Cama from reigning World Series champions New Zealand have joined

the Sevens World Series since 2010.Reigning World Series champions and Rugby World Cup Sevens holders New

Zealand head into the competition in Tokyo two points clear of South Africa on the overall rankings

to be streamed live online for the first timeOctober 2013: Promotion and relegation introduced for new

By Gary AndersonMarch 17 - National public broadcaster CBC/Radio Canada will provide coverage of this year's Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games in Canada it has been announced.

Canada is one of only six countries, along with Australia, England, New Zealand, Scotland and Wales,

weeks of Olympic followed by Paralympic sport and - as Dmitry Kozak said tonight - it has shown that a New

- across the Stadium. 21:01 Not just the old and new but also the west and east that segment combined

Russia sets new record in the number of medals won at #Paralympics!

Zealand: Corey Peters (alpine skiing)Norway: Nils-Erik Ulset (Nordic skiing)Poland: Wojciech Taraba

That is a new Paralympic record, beating Austria's total of 70 at Innsbruck 1984.

By Mike RowbottomLast week's decision by the International Rowing Federation (FISA) to introduce health screening to check for potentially fatal heart conditions among international competitors is a profoundly important step.The system is based on the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Pre-Competition Health Screening which follows on from the finding that the leading cause (more than 90 per cent) of non-traumatic sudden death in athletes is related to pre-existing heart problems.The statistics relating to this subject are stark. More young athletes between 14 and 24 die of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) than from any other cause.

risk of sudden cardiac death increases 11-fold among those who exercise regularly and vigorously.New Zealand

Zealand Herald at the time that atrial fibrillation was the commonest heart arrhythmia."

He's obviously got one of the strongest hearts in New Zealand, but electrically it's rather excitable

Zealand discovered that he had supraventricular tachycardia (SVT).

Zealand Herald at the time."

By Emily GoddardMarch 15 - Spain and New Zealand have been awarded the hosting rights to the Women's

in 2017 to compete in the Women's Hockey World League, which will take place at the newly developed New

Zealand National Hockey Centre.Meanwhile, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) named the Netherlands

year's Commonwealth Games are up by 800 per cent on Delhi 2010 according to official ticket agents in New

Zealand as Kiwi fans get set to flock to Glasgow this summer.

Around 2,000 New Zealanders have bought 8,000 event tickets for Glasgow 2014 inside the first two weeks

Zealand Olympic Committee (NZOC) and House of Travel, has exclusive rights to resell tickets to the

Games and the company's managing director, David Williams says that New Zealanders are benefitting from

Zealand's pool of tickets.New Zealand supporters will be keen to get a ticket for the netball finals

which sold out in three hours, after it moved the matches to the SSE Hydro following huge demand.New Zealand

That took him above New Zealand's Corey Peters, who also won his country's first medal of these Games

New Zealand's Corey Peters, who led after the first run, slipped to second while Austria's Roman Rabl

coming to the end of the first run of the men's giant slalom sitting and the top three remain with New

He remains out in front, raising hope that New Zealand are on course for their first medal of these Games

We are now straight into the first run of the men's giant slalom sitting where the early leader is New

By Gary AndersonMarch 14 - Fiji has been reinstated to the Commonwealth of Nations today following a meeting of the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group, paving the way for Fijian athletes to make their first appearance at the Games in Glasgow since Melbourne 2006.

to demands to hold elections.But Bainimarama has now promised to hold elections in September while a new

Contact the writer of this story at [email protected] StoriesAugust 2011: New Zealand

in second and third after winning one and two golds respectively today.But the snowboarding brought new

Zealand leads but then Josh Duck of Canada, takes over at the top.15:49 Nikolay Polukhin leads by over

Luscombe is next, but the Canadian slips out midway through and fails to finish. 15:21 Adam Hall of New

Zealand splits the two Australians for an Oceania 1-2-3.

Three of them are Americans and the clean sweep can only be prevented by Carl Murphy of New Zealand.