By Paul OsborneThe Agitos Foundation is continuing in its aims to boast participation in Para-sport after hosting its latest workshop for National Paralympic Committee (NPC) youth coordinators in Kigali, Rwanda.

By Zjan ShirinianThe 2015 World Triathlon Series calendar is being expanded to include a new event in the next Commonwealth Games host city of Gold Coast.

Gold Coast, host of the 2018 Commonwealth Games, making its debut on April 11 and 12.Cape Town, South Africa

By Gary AndersonThe International Rugby Board (IRB) has announced Prozone as the official performance analysis partner of the World Rugby Conference and Exhibition (ConfEx) taking place in London later this year.

worldwide.It has worked with the last three winners of the Rugby World Cup - New Zealand in 2011, South Africa

By Nick ButlerInternational Skateboarding Federation (ISF) President Gary Ream has reacted to news, revealed by insidethegames, that the governing body remains ineligible for SportAccord membership by insisting they will not push to enter a "closed club" of international sporting organisations.

Grand Prix that organises the annual Kimberley Diamond Cup event, due to place in Kimberley, South Africa

By Nick Butler"Exciting discussions" have taken place at the first meeting of the Association of National Olympic Committees (ANOC) Youth Working Group in London, it has been claimed. 

of London 2012 , consists of two young representatives from Azerbaijan, Brazil, Jordan, Palau, South Africa

By Gary AndersonGermany ended the Para-cycling Road World Championships on a high as three athletes claimed road race gold medals on the final day of action in Greenville, South Carolina.

his duel with big rival Alex Zanardi in Greenville ©Getty ImagesNicolas Pieter Du Preez ensured South Africa

By Gary AndersonBritain's four-time world champion Simon Lessing was among six athletes inducted into the inaugural International Triathlon Union Hall of Fame as the organisation's first President, Les McDonald, was honoured with a lifetime achievement award.

headquarters from Vancouver to Lausanne earlier this year.Lessing, who was born in Cape Town, South Africa

There are few World Championships in the world bigger than that of basketball's. In fact, there may be only one - the FIFA World Cup. The International Basketball Federation (FIBA) wants to change that, however. Since its debut in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1950, following the growing success of basketball at the Olympic Games, FIBA has been looking at ways to expand, improve and cement the Championships as a major player on the international sporting calendar.From its initial growing pains through teams' unwillingness to participate, to its eventual expansion into the realms of professional stars and its current 24 team...

system.Currently, teams qualify for the World Cup via a continental Championship in each FIBA zone, Europe, Asia, Africa

By Mike RowbottomFamiliar names assumed their places on top of the rostrum on the penultimate day of competition at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam.

sculls after setting a world best time in qualifying, were beaten to the world title today by South Africa

Langridge and Foad following in second ahead of bronze medallists, Vincent Breet and Shaun Keeling of South Africa

By Nick ButlerSenegalese company JSPORTS consolidated its position as the leading African sporting goods manufacturer by providing kit for 18 National Olympic Committees (NOC) at last month's Summer Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing, the company has revealed.

wishes to support more and better their efforts in the hope of increasing sports performance through Africa

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By Gary AndersonGerman skier Andrea Eskau swapped the snow for the tarmac to claim more gold at the Para-Cycling Road World Championships in Greenville as she secured the women's HT time trial title with an impressive performance.

ImagesMeanwhile, Alex Zanardi picked up his second gold of the Championships by beating Ernst van Dyk of South Africa

respectively.Canada's Shelley Gautier in the T1, Australian Carol Cooke in T2, Justine Asher of South Africa

By Mike RowbottomOn a night of dramatic reversals of fortune as the International Association of Athletics Federations Diamond League reached its climax in half of its scheduled events, Great Britain's young 4x100 metres women's relay team provided the Zurich Weltklasse meeting with its greatest drama in a final flourish of a victory over Jamaica and the United States.

Javier Culson, maintained his crucial advantage as he finished second to Cornel Fredericks of South Africa

By Mike RowbottomAustralia took the lion's share of the medals as the Para-rowing events held their finals at the World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, taking two golds - through Erik Horrie in the Arms and Shoulders (AS) men's single sculls and Gavin Bellis and Kathryn Ross in the Trunk and Arms (TA) mixed double sculls.

crossed the line in 3:20.45, with the US crew clocking 3:25.49 and Italy sprinting through to pass South Africa

By Gary AndersonArgentina's Horacio Muratore has been elected President of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) after being the only candidate in the running at the organisation's World Congress in Seville.

positions on the FIBA Central Board, which saw 11 new members appointed at the Congress.Representing Africa

Bongarts/Getty ImagesThey will be joined by the Presidents of FIBA's five continental zones Hamane Niang - Africa

bulldozer of a New Zealand rugby union player named  Jonah Lomu who turned the Rugby World Cup in South Africa