By James CrookMarch 28 - Host nation for the Li Ning Badminton World Federation (BWF) Sudirman Cup, Malaysia, claim they are content with their draw for the tournament this May, and are setting their sights on reaching at least the quarter-finals.

in Group 3A and Switzerland, Vietnam, Australia and Lithuania are in Group 3B.Group 4 features South Africa

By Duncan MackayMarch 24 - At least nine cities on five continents, including London for the World Championships, will feature in the new Para-triathlon season as the sport prepares to make its Paralympic debuat at Rio 2016. 

Para-triathletes are also expected to participate in the Continental Championships in Asia and Africa

fierce after all.Besides London, the other bid hitter out there would be 2010 FIFA World Cup hosts South Africa

South Africa could produce a formidable bid for the 2022 Commonwealth Games after successfully staging

By James CrookMarch 20 - With 100 days to go until the tournament kicks off, the match schedule for the 2013 International Rugby Board (IRB) World Cup Sevens in Moscow has been announced, pitting reigning champions Wales against Uruguay in their opening fixture.

Sevens with many potentially spectacular fixtures, including Fiji v Wales, Australia v France, South Africa

are the favourites to clinch the World Cup with British bookmakers, best-priced at 9/4, with South Africa

Australia will take on China in the third game of the day in their first Pool B fixture, with South Africa

By Tom DegunMarch 20 - Commonwealth Games England (CGE) have welcomed London's interest in mounting a bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games in the city but said they are still assessing whether or not to move for the event.

choice, Johannesburg, was stripped of the event amid concerns of concerns about the way South Africa

By Duncan MackayMarch 19 - SportAccord, the umbrella organisation for Olympic and non-Olympic international sports federations and organisations, has signed an exclusive partnership with the global communications firm Burson-Marsteller, they announced today.

Dennis Landsbert-Noon, chairman of Burson-Marsteller's Sport Practice in Europe, the Middle East and Africa

By Tom DegunMarch 18 - London is set to launch a bid to host the 2022 Commonwealth Games, according to the Mayor of London Boris Johnson's Olympic legacy adviser.

choice, Johannesburg, was stripped of the event amid concerns of concerns about the way South Africa

end any hopes that Cardiff has of staging the Commonwealth Games in 2026.Canada, New Zealand, South Africa

By Duncan MackayIf Marius Vizer was looking to pick the brains of a couple of political heavyweights to get some tips for his campaign to become the new President of SportAccord then he had the perfect opportunity during London 2012.In what was a stunning picture opportunity for the head of the International Judo Federation (IJF), Russian President Vladimir Putin showed up at ExCeL to spend his only day at the Olympics  in London watching judo, and was accompanied by British Prime Minister David Cameron.

Games, because we have to know the reality of sport in some countries in the world, particularly in Africa

By Duncan MackayMarch 14 - International Judo Federation (IJF) President Marius Vizer has put himself forward to be the next head of SportAccord, and at the heart of his manifesto will be a radical plan for all the sports to hold a united World Championships once every four years.

Games, because we have to know the reality of sport in some countries in the world, particularly in Africa

By Emily GoddardMarch 12 - The International Hockey Federation (FIH) has named the 16 teams heading to Rotterdam and London in June to compete at the last of the two women's Hockey World League semi-final tournaments.

League semi-final Meanwhile, hosts England, Argentina, Australia, China, the United States, South Africa

third-seeded team, when they finished ahead of Spain – who they could meet again in the semi-finals.South Africa

England will face South Africa Australia and Spain after being drawn in Pool B Argentina, China, the

US and Italy will feature in London's Group A, with England, Australia, South Africa and Spain playing

By Duncan MackayMarch 11 - The Queen's Baton Relay for next year's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow will travel nearly 120,000 miles around the world, covering 71 countries and territories in 248 days, before arriving in Scotland in time for the Opening Ceremony on July 23, it was announced today.

Delhi, host city of the 2010 Commonwealth Games.It will then travel sequentially through Asia, Oceania, Africa

Nauru, the smallest island on the route, and St Helena, following a unique four day crossing from South Africa

By Duncan MackayMarch 10 - Issa Hayatou has been officially re-elected unopposed as President of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) for a record seventh four-year term.

Danny Jordaan, organiser of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, was again overlooked for a place

By Emily GoddardMarch 9 - New Delhi has been named as the host of two of the International Hockey Federation's (FIH) major upcoming events, with the men's tournaments of both the Hero World League Finals and Hero Junior World Cup set to take place in the Indian capital.

England, Spain, Egypt, France, Germany, Korea, Malaysia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa

By James CrookMarch 9 - The World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) has held a demonstration atop the iconic Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai prior to the launch of the 2013 Fujairah Open International Championships.

this year, and are starting by rewarding the loyal taekwondo supporters in the Middle East and North Africa

South Africa were banned from competing in the Olympics on the eve of Tokyo 1964 due to its apartheid

South Africa returned to the Olympics and Paralympics at Barcelona in 1992 while Rhodesia was renamed