It took less than 11 seconds for Jonnie Peacock to go from promising Paralympic athlete to sporting superstar. Well, 10.90sec, to be precise.That is the time it took the 19-year-old single-leg amputee from Cambridge to win 100 metres T44 final in what was the blue-ribbon event of the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

world record in America three months earlier, there was defending champion Oscar Pistorius of South Africa

By Andrew WarshawDecember 6 - Blighted by an alarming crime rate, Brazil is boosting its 2014 FIFA World Cup security budget to 1.879 billion Brazilian real (£562 million/$903 million/€696 million) to make sure the event is "one of the most protected sports events in history," the Government has announced.

At the last World Cup in South Africa in 2010, the Government invested 640 million rand (£45 million/

foolproof system, and sent the manufacturers away to do more tweaking.That all changed after South Africa

By Andrew WarshawDecember 3 - The battle to take control of African football has taken a significant new twist with the announcement that the Ivory Coast is planning to nominate Jacques Anouma to stand against Confederation of African Football (CAF) President Issa Hayatou in next March's elections in Morocco.

is "incorruptible" claims former England 2018 bid adviserDecember 2011: IOC have "disrespected" Africa

By Lauren MatteraSince former World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) President Kim Un-Young, successfully placed taekwondo as an official sport into the Olympics in 2000, after being a demonstration sport for the 1998 Games in Seoul, the martial art has had its fair share of ups and downs.A sport criticised for its Korean dominance, shouldering fears over its safety, carrying the opinion that it is a poor spectator sport and the unforgettable controversy surrounding its transparency created during the Beijing Games.But the re-election of President Chung Won Choue in 2009, along with the growth of worldwide participating athletes, the increase in global...

Taekwondo activities have been going on for years in East Africa and I want to expand further and develop

Somalia.Djibouti's Balbala district is one of the poorest parts of the country"Developing sport in East Africa

I will be building on already existing infrastructure that's in place in Africa, and in particular one

living as refugees in the territory of other community member States.There may be questions of how East Africa

and more than the 51 who went to Sydney in 2000.Ten different countries, including Gabon in central Africa

By Duncan Mackay November 30 - A three-day workshop has started in Johannesburg for Africa's English-speaking countries to help them plan ahead for Rio 2016.

Committees (NPC) in Angola, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia, Tanzania and Uganda, as well as South Africa

encouraged to embark on strategic planning ahead of Rio following the success of London 2012, where South Africa

public relations.The purpose of the programme is to draw together NPC's and stakeholders within the Africa

By Andrew WarshawNovember 30 - Considerable work still needs to be done to bring Brazil up to speed for both next summer's Confederations Cup and the 2014 World Cup, according to FIFA secretary general Jérôme Valcke.

featuring Continental national champions, 13 times more than the amount sold at the same stage by South Africa

By Andrew WarshawNovember 29 - The power struggle to determine who can and who cannot challenge for the top job in African football is being taken all the way to sport's highest court of law, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS).

is "incorruptible" claims former England 2018 bid adviserDecember 2011: IOC have "disrespected" Africa

By Duncan MackayNovember 28 - Sir John Armit, the chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority (ODA), is to take on a new role next year as head of National Express, a multinational public transport company that operates bus, coach and tram services, it has been announced.

excellence while developing a new pipeline of opportunities across our portfolio in the US, Europe and North Africa

By Andrew WarshawNovember 26 - Samson Adamu, son of discredited Nigerian football powerbroker Amos Adamu, has hit back at allegations that he collaborated with the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup bid team in the build up to the ballot almost two years ago.

€780,000) to sponsor a high-profile gala dinner organised by Samson during the World Cup finals in South Africa

We wanted to market our bid by showing that Qatar cares about Africa and football in general," he was

By Duncan MackayNovember 26 - Fuleco is the name chosen by the Brazilian public for the controversial cartoon armadillo who will be the official mascot of the 2014 FIFA World Cup, it was announced today.

orange for Spain 1982, Pique the chili pepper in Mexico in 1986 and Zakumi the leopard at South Africa

By Duncan MackayBud Greenspan, who along with Leni Riefenstahl was undoubtedly the filmmaker who has done more than anyone to bring the Olympics to life on celluloid, was an unabashed fan of the 17 days of glory."They're two weeks of love," he once told an interviewer. "It's Like Never Never Land. Like Robin Hood shooting his arrow through the other guy's arrow. It's a privilege to be associated with the best in the world. How many times are you with the best in the world in something? They bring things forward that they don't ordinarily do."For Greenspan, an unforgettable New Yorker who in...

Born to a Swiss mother, English father and having been brought up in South Africa, Rowland was always

By Duncan MackayNovember 26 - A bid from South Africa for the 2024 Summer Olympics and Paralympics appears

the country's main ports of entry.In the absence of any final definitive figures on how much South Africa

earned in total from being the first country in Africa to host the event, the report said the World

Grant Thornton, but that was a mid to long-term projection.The success of the 2010 World Cup in South Africa

FIFA said it spent $1.298 billion (£811 billion/€1.001 billion) on the World Cup in South Africa

projects.The Government claimed that the report would add as a benchmark for future bids from South Africa

MackayNovember 24 - A vote of confidence saw Gideon Sam and his team re-elected at the head of the South Africa

the top post from Irvin Khoza, who had been the chairman of the Organising Committee when South Africa

Marais and Mohamed also served on the board for the last term of office.Motlatsi from Athletics South Africa

and Hlasho from Judo South Africa were the two new members on the Board.Swimming South Africa president

By Mike RowbottomNovember 24 - Outstanding initiatives in advancing athletics in the six continental areas of the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) were honoured in Barcelona today through the presentation by IAAF President Lamine Diack of the Spirit of World Plan Awards.

In Africa, Botswana has introduced a range of initiatives to provide appropriate training opportunities