By Nick ButlerSeptember 1 - Some of the world's best Paralympic skiers will be descending on, and down, the slopes at Thredbo this week for the first ever International Paralympic Committee (IPC) skiing World Cup to be held in Australia.

impaired slalom and giant slalom classes while entrants will also come from as far afield as South Africa

Angeles held the Games.For 1936, there came bids from Buenos Aires in South America and Alexandria in Africa

By Duncan MackayAugust 29 - France's Olympic gold medallist Jean-Christophe Rolland leads the three candidates seeking to replace Denis Oswald as President of the International Rowing Federation (FISA) at the election in Chungju on Monday (September 2) but will face opposition from Australia's John Boultbee and Canada's Tricia Smith, it was announced today. 

led to the Socceroos qualifying for both the 2006 and 2010 FIFA World Cup finals in Germany and South Africa

By James CrookAugust 29- The Canadian under-23's national wheelchair basketball team will step up their preparations for next month's World Junior Championships in the Turkish city of Adana with a series of friendlies against Great Britain at the birthplace of the Paralympic Movement, Stoke Mandeville.

have been drawn in Group A for the World Championships, alongside Canada Germany, Iran, Mexico, South Africa

By Emily GoddardAugust 29 - The 2014 Champions Challenge 1, the winner's of which will qualify for the 2016 Champions Trophy, for men and women will take place in Malaysia and Scotland respectively, the International Hockey Federation (FIH) announced today.

starting a day later but finishing on the same date.Featuring teams from New Zealand, Spain, Korea, South Africa

Pahang state capital.The women's tournament, meanwhile, will see South Korea, the United States, South Africa

By James CrookAugust 28 - Paralympic champion Naomi Riches has won her sixth world title at the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju as part of the British Para-rowing mixed coxed four team that stormed to gold today.

half-a-second of the world best time - as the Italians won silver more than five seconds behind and South Africa

By Gary AndersonAugust 26 - A new Ryder Cup style match-play event between the leading players from Europe and Asia is set to take place at the Glenmarie Golf and Country Club in Malaysia next year.

the Nedbank Golf Challenge, which will take place at the Gary Player Country Club in Sun City, South Africa

year from December 5 to 8.The tournament is co-sanctioned by the Sunshine Tour - based in Southern Africa

Today I am a role model to many children across the world and mostly in Africa.

When I visit cities in the poor communities in Africa, people from all over the place come to greet me

By James CrookAugust 21 - National Basketball Association (NBA) Commissioner David Stern has announced that NBA International President Heidi Ueberroth will leave her role at the end of 2013.

proud of the team of more than 300 NBA colleagues now based in our offices throughout Europe, Asia, Africa

By Gary AndersonAugust 20 - Windhoek, Namibia's capital city, will host the World Squash Federation (WSF) 2014 World Junior Squash Championships, it has been announced.

staged in an African country following Egypt, which hosted the 2008 women's Team Championships and South Africa

deal to become the title sponsors of England Netball's three-match international series against South Africa

England will take on South Africa in the Fiat International Netball Series next monthBrane Bosancic,

World number six-ranked South Africa are sure to offer the hosts a stern test, but England will go into

But while the authorities are more relaxed about imposing it than some others in the Middle East and Africa

against a Jewish opponent.Only once has the IOC really bowed to moral pressure - banning apartheid South Africa

By James CrookAugust 19 - Organisers of the inaugural Lagos International Table Tennis Classic have declared themselves "overwhelmed" by the quality of entrants for the tournament, which is due to get underway on Thursday (August 22).

The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) and Africa Table Tennis Federation (ATTF) approved tournament

ITTF/ATTF is looking to organise a brand new event next year tagged '2014 ITTF-Africa Top 16 Cup,' which

International Classics will be among the ITTF World Tour Calendar in 2014 and this is to prove to ITTF that Africa

By Gary AndersonAugust 19 - The fourth International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Shooting World Cup in Bangkok saw shooters from South Korea dominate the event, taking 22 of the 42 medals available as 140 athletes from 20 countries battled it out.

pistol standard SH1, while Brazil's Geraldo Rosenthal finished just ahead of Vonnie Kohne of South Africa

By Duncan MackayAugust 19 - A date was today set for the trial of South Africa's six-time Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius for the premeditated murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp at a hearing at Pretoria Magistrates' Court.

date.A judge will preside over the trial and ultimately pronounce Pistorius innocent or guilty as South Africa

Pistorius at the hearing, including a witness list and forensic reports.It has been reported in South Africa

A court in March eased his travel restrictions, allowing him to leave South Africa to compete as long