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Dame Kelly Holmes: I cannot believe I sat next to Michelle Obama at dinner

  • The Big Read (Paralympics)

    By Dame Kelly Holmes - 8 April 2009   When Leona Lewis sang at the closing ceremony of the Olympics in Beijing, I found myself wondering why she did not sing 'A moment like this'. It seemed such a fitting song given the momentous occasion of the handover to 2012. If I had been a world class singer and not a double Olympic Champion, that's what I would have burst into song with when I had the opportunity to attend the dinner hosted by the Prime Minister's wife, Sarah Brown for the wives of the G20 World Leaders last week.

So flying off to South Africa where some of the girls on my ‘On Camp with Kelly’ mentoring initiative



Martin Gillingham: The organiser of the Atlanta Olympics must modernise Augusta

  • The Big Read (Paralympics)

    By Martin Gillingham - 7 April 2009   Few with a golfing bent will disagree that this weekend is one of the three most significant of the year – it’s the Masters at Augusta.  

It is an enduring hypocrisy that at the same time as South Africa was excluded from international sport

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter


Martin Gillingham: The organiser of the Atlanta Olympics must modernise Augusta

  • Inside the Blogs

It is an enduring hypocrisy that at the same time as South Africa was excluded from international sport

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter


Adelaide ready to bid for 2013 World Cup Rugby Sevens

  • Archive News

   April 5 - Adelaide is considering a bid to host the 2013 World Cup Rugby Sevens, the sport's leading administrator in Australia said today.

South Africa won the tournament with a 26-7 victory over Kenya in the final yesterday.


Adelaide ready to bid for 2013 World Cup Rugby Sevens

  • Rugby Sevens

   April 5 - Adelaide is considering a bid to host the 2013 World Cup Rugby Sevens, the sport's leading administrator in Australia said today.

South Africa won the tournament with a 26-7 victory over Kenya in the final yesterday.


Malawi set to base themselves on South Coast for London 2012

  • Archive News

April 4 - Malawi are set to choose Portsmouth to set up a training camp for London 2012 following a visit by the president of the National Olympic Committee, Floriano Massah (pictured) to the South Coast this week.

Malawi, which gained its independence from Britain in 1964, is located in southeast Africa and has a

They included Zahra Pinto, a 14-year-old swimmer who has to travel to South Africa to train in an Olympic-sized


Brazilian President visits London's Olympic Park

  • Rio 2016

By Mike Rowbottom at the Olympic ParkApril 3 - President Lula of Brazil (pictured), seeking to win the 2016 Games for Rio, made an impassioned plea for the Olympic Movement to recognise the new realities of world economic power after visiting London’s site today.

We have also seen the emergence of China, India and South Africa."


India is safe to host major sports events

  • Archive News

April 2 - India is safe for holding sporting events, including the Commonwealth Games, and sporting events will go on as scheduled, Indian Sports Minister M.S. Gill (pictured) said today.

Lankan cricket team in Lahore last month, and the shifting of the Indian Premier League (IPL) to South Africa

"I made it clear to Australia that IPL being moved out to South Africa was not because of India's inability



Martin Gillingham: Why athletics needs to change

  • The Big Read (Paralympics)

  By Martin Gillingham - 2 April 2009 Two days, above all others, have convinced me that athletics has to change. The first was the second evening session at the Olympic Games in Beijing.  

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter


Martin Gillingham: The Englishman causing a backlash against South Africa in London

  • Inside the Blogs

Saracens are 50 per cent owned by a Johannesburg investment firm with similar interests in two of South Africa

  Griffiths does, though, boast a stunning cv from his time spent in South Africa during the Eighties

biographer of some of the country’s most famous rugby legends; and even a key player in South Africa

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter


Martin Gillingham: The Englishman causing a backlash against South Africa in London

  • The Big Read (Paralympics)

By Martin Gillingham - 25 March 2009   In 2004, a bunch of South Africans waving wads of cash and fronted by the jaunty former Springbok captain Bobby Skinstad arrived on our shores telling all ‘n sundry they were preparing to take English rugby by storm and set up a team under the working title London Tribe.   

Griffiths does, though, boast a stunning cv from his time spent in South Africa during the Eighties and

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter


Martin Gillingham: It is time to stop this witch hunt against Chambers

  • The Big Read (Paralympics)

    By Martin Gillingham - 18 March 2009   Until quite recently, UK Athletics employed a convicted British drugs cheat on not one but two salaries. A fortnight ago, they picked another for the British team at the European indoor championships, his umpteenth in a red, white and blue vest, since being banned for taking drugs.

Since retiring from the track he spent 12 years in South Africa where he was a radio talk show presenter