By Mike Rowbottom in London   October 19 - Triple Olympic champion Johann Olav Koss (pictured) has criticised the decision to stop the Olympic Torch Relay from travelling outside host countries.

"Africa often suffers in the same way.

and many great opportunities for investment, but because there are some bad things going on there too Africa

Minister of Youth and Sports for Ghana, applauded the decision to host the next World Cup finals in South Africa

  "We need to re-think how we look at Africa, and we need to look again at our PR.

By Mike Rowbottom in London   October 19 - Triple Olympic champion Johann Olav Koss (pictured) has criticised the decision to stop the Olympic Torch Relay from travelling outside host countries.

"Africa often suffers in the same way.

and many great opportunities for investment, but because there are some bad things going on there too Africa

Minister of Youth and Sports for Ghana, applauded the decision to host the next World Cup finals in South Africa

  "We need to re-think how we look at Africa, and we need to look again at our PR.

October 17 - Caster Semenya (pictured), the world 800 metres champion, is set to take university exams despite the row over her gender, her father said, contradicting earlier reports she was too traumatised to study.

"   The IAAF has been criticised in South Africa and abroad for publicly acknowledging tests

  Leonard Chuene, the President of Athletics South Africa (ASA), has admitted that he knew gender

October 17 - Bury St Edmunds have agreed a deal for Rwanda to base themselves there in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, they have announced.

  The team from Central Africa will be based at the West Suffolk Athletics Arena.

October 17 - Bury St Edmunds have agreed a deal for Rwanda to base themselves there in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, they have announced.

  The team from Central Africa will be based at the West Suffolk Athletics Arena.

October 17 - Bury St Edmunds have agreed a deal for Rwanda to base themselves there in the build-up to the London 2012 Olympics and Paralympics, they have announced.

  The team from Central Africa will be based at the West Suffolk Athletics Arena.

October 16 - Cardiff is hoping to bid the 2022 Commonwealth Games, 64 years after they hosted the Empire Games, they have announced today.

Abuja, beaten by Glasgow for 2014.Others interested include Auckland in New Zealand, Durban in South Africa

October 16 - Cardiff is hoping to bid the 2022 Commonwealth Games, 64 years after they hosted the Empire Games, they have announced today.

  Others interested include Auckland in New Zealand, Durban in South Africa, the Gold Coast

two-a-piece, come from the so-called Foundation Unions of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, South Africa

October 15 - Russia has a good chance of being chosen to host the 2018 World Cup, FIFA President Sepp Blatter claimed after a meeting in Moscow today with the country's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

  "Accordingly, we are in Africa now [for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa].

October 15 - Russia has a good chance of being chosen to host the 2018 World Cup, FIFA President Sepp Blatter claimed after a meeting in Moscow today with the country's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

  "Accordingly, we are in Africa now [for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa].

By Duncan Mackay   October 13 - The host city for the 2018 Commonwealth Games will be chosen at a meeting in St Kitts and Nevis in 2011 after the tiny Caribbean island won a bid ahead of Belfast to stage the event.

Games are expected to be the Abuja in Nigeria, Auckland in New Zealand, Durban in South Africa

staged a number of matches during the 2007 Cricket World Cup, including Australia's victory over South Africa

By Duncan Mackay   October 13 - The host city for the 2018 Commonwealth Games will be chosen at a meeting in St Kitts and Nevis in 2011 after the tiny Caribbean island won a bid ahead of Belfast to stage the event.

Games are expected to be the Abuja in Nigeria, Auckland in New Zealand, Durban in South Africa

staged a number of matches during the 2007 Cricket World Cup, including Australia's victory over South Africa

By Duncan Mackay   October 13 - The host city for the 2018 Commonwealth Games will be chosen at a meeting in St Kitts and Nevis in 2011 after the tiny Caribbean island won a bid ahead of Belfast to stage the event.

Games are expected to be the Abuja in Nigeria, Auckland in New Zealand, Durban in South Africa

staged a number of matches during the 2007 Cricket World Cup, including Australia's victory over South Africa

October 13 - South Africa, who were represented by just one boxer at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, plans

Cuban coaches will also visit South Africa to work with boxers identified as having potential for London

The programme will take the form of provincial tournaments, with Sanabo and Boxing South Africa (BSA)

opportunity that we will utilise to the absolute maximum to market 'Olympic style' boxing in South Africa

The team's most successful performance was at the 1948 Olympics in London when South Africa

But South Africa was represented by only flyweight Jackson Chauke in Beijing last year and he was