By Duncan MackayJune 12 - Olympic skating champion Kim Yu-Na is set to put in the air miles during the next few weeks on behalf of Pyeongchang's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics and Paralympics by travelling to represent them in Lome before jetting to Durban for the final presentation.

Annecy and Munich, they will make a presentation to the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

By Tom DegunJune 8 - Welsh boxer Sean McGoldrick has revealed that it was an amazing feeling to finally get his hands on the gold medal in the bantamweight division from the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games.

The medal will boost my morale as I prepare for the World Military Games and the forthcoming All Africa

By Tom DegunJune 3 - Mike Lee (pictured), chairman of Vero Communications, has written a letter to the Football Association urging it to step up efforts to ensure that a Team GB football team competes at the London 2012 Olympics as part of an overall effort to help improve England's damaged relations with world governing body FIFA.

understand that a review is underway and this may well include cutting budgets and closing down projects in Africa

By Tom DegunJune 2 - South African Paralympic star Oscar Pistorius admits that he does not expect to come close to Athens 2004 Olympic 400 metres champion Jeremy Wariner when the pair line up on the blocks together at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in New York City later this month.

Championships in Daegu and the London 2012 Olympics.He ran a personal best of 45.61sec in the 400m in South Africa

athletics programme for 2012March 2011: Pistorius secures qualifying time for London 2012 Olympics in South Africa

By Duncan MackayJune 2 - South Africa are planning to launch a campaign to host the 2022 Commonweatlh

The event has been never staged in Africa and a bid from South Africa will be welcomed by the Commonwealth

President of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASOC),"It has never been to Africa

 South Africa was widely expected to bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics following the success

nothing to stop the country bidding for the 2022 Commonwealth Games.Sam did not specify which city South Africa

countdown to the 123rd International Olympic Committee Session to be held in Durban in July that South Africa

By Mike RowbottomMay 31 - Usain Bolt won his second 100 metres in the space of five days at tonight's Ostrava Golden Spike meeting, recording the same time as he had at the Samsung Diamond League meeting in Rome – 9.91sec.

South Africa;s LJ van Zyl equalled his world-leading performance of 47.66 in the 400m hurdles, with Britain's

By Tom DegunMay 31 - Double Paralympic gold medallist Jason Smyth will continue to enhance his growing reputation against the world's best able-bodied sprinter as he lines up on the blocks in next month's prestigious Samsung Diamond League meeting in New York.

Diamond League meeting in New York will also see Smyth's fellow Paralympian Oscar Pistorius of South Africa

standard of 45.25.Pistorius' current person best of 45.61, which he set earlier this year in South Africa

May 29 - South Africa staged a superb comeback to beat Australia 36-35 and win the Emirates Airline Edinburgh

remarkable turnaround performances by any team in a HSBC Sevens World Series Cup final.Injury-hit South Africa

"They refused to give in and South Africa can be very proud of these young men."

The New Zealanders dominated the series, finishing on 166 points, 26 clear of second-placed South Africa

And, in 2010, the year of the World Cup in South Africa, FIFA made $2.408 million (£1.459 million) 

Britain has an outstanding sporting distinction looming on the horizon – that of hosting the Commonwealth Games immediately after an Olympics.And all those involved in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow are proceeding in the expectation that it will benefit from the huge surge of energy and interest the London 2012 Games engenders.It is not quite a unique opportunity - one other nation experienced this particular sporting double when Canada staged the 1978 Commonwealths - the first to bear the current name of "Commonwealth Games"- in Edmonton two years after the Montreal Olympics.

nations which had boycotted the 1976 Olympics because of a New Zealand rugby tour to apartheid South Africa

By Tom DegunMay 29 - Sir Philip Craven, President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), and Sue Campbell, the chair of UK Sport, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to recognise a three-year international development partnership between the two groups.

of National Paralympic Committees worldwide.There will be a particular focus on the region of East Africa

By Duncan MackayMay 28 - Sergiy Derevyanchenko (pictured) of the Ukraine and Abdelhafid Benchabla of Algeria claimed the middleweight and light heavyweight titles and places at London 2012 as he inaugural season of the World Series of Boxing (WSB) came to a close tonight in the University of Guizhou Stadium in China.

I'm also proud to be the first champion from Africa."

By Duncan MackayMay 26 - South Africa will not launch a bid for the 2020 Olympics and Paralympics after

writer of this story at [email protected] storiesMay 2011: Exclusive - South Africa

By Duncan MackayMay 24 - South Africa are hoping to make a decision by the end of the month about whether

still waiting to hear whether the Government will back a campaign to try to become the first city in Africa

Under the bid procedures launched yesterday by the IOC, South Africa has until September 1 to nominate

African Olympic bidFebruary 2011: Cape Town pull out of race to bid for 2020 OlympicsFebruary 2011: South Africa

By Tom DegunMay 23 - South African Oscar Pistorius today visited the London 2012 Olympic Stadium for the first time to see for himself the venue that he may well dominate in less than 500 days' time when the Paralympics are held there.

As well as competing at the Paralympics in 2012, Pistorius is also looking to represent South Africa