BRITAIN'S young swimmers in action on the FINA World Cup series rounded off the tour of Stockholm and Berlin with more medal winning performances today.

Gold went to Katheryn Meaklim of South Africa in 4min 29.41sec , Smithurst touched in 4:34.11 and bronze

  PREPARATIONS for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi will be top of the agenda when officials gather in Banjul, Gambia, for the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) annual assembly, which starts tomorrow.

This will be the first CGF assembly to be held in Africa since Kenya was the host 22 years ago.  

  JULY 13 - BRITAIN'S Stephanie Twell (pictured) and Emma Pallant claimed the gold and bronze medals in the 1500 metres at the World Junior Championships in Bydgoszcz today.

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  JULY 28 - GETTING rugby sevens into the Olympics is one of the key recommendations of a new report into the future of the sport published today.

said that 97 per cent of the 33 million people who watched last year's World Cup final between South Africa

foundation countries - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

  JULY 28 - GETTING rugby sevens into the Olympics is one of the key recommendations of a new report into the future of the sport published today.

said that 97 per cent of the 33 million people who watched last year's World Cup final between South Africa

foundation countries - England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

  FIFA PRESIDENT Sepp Blatter today called England a "strong candidate" to host the 2018 World Cup but said he expects the bidding process to be fair and highly competitive.

to win the 2018 event, which is widely expected to be awarded to Europe after it is staged in South Africa

  FIFA'S announcement yesterday that they will award the 2018 and 2022 simultaneously has dramatically raised the stakes but as Andy Anson, the chief executive of England's bid, exclusively tells DAVID OWEN it will not affect his focus

And after staging two consecutive World Cups - South Africa 2010 and Brazil 2014 - outside the sport’

  SPAIN is England's biggest rival in the race to host the 2018 World Cup, the chairman of the Football Association claimed today.

I would like to think after several years in the southern hemisphere [2010 in South Africa, 2014 in Brazil

  JAPAN is set to bid to host either the 2018 or 2022 World Cup, despite Tokyo already hoping to stage the 2016 Olympics, it was announced today.

It is widely expected that the 2018 tournament will be awarded to Europe because South Africa are hosting

 AUGUST 8 - AFTER all the controversy, the Beijing Olympics finally opened tonight with a spectacular ceremony at the Bird's Nest watched by an estimated worldwide television audience of four billion.

Games despite having had part of her leg amputated following a motor accident, led the way for South Africa

 AUGUST 8 - SHEFFIELD are in discussions with China, Brazil, Canada and South Africa about setting up

 AUGUST 11 - THE BBC's head of sport has defended the decision to send more than 400 members of the Corporation at the cost of £3 million to cover the Olympics in Beijing.

Nick Waters, chief executive for London-base media agency MindShare Europe, Middle East and Africa, said

have been warned today by World Cup officials that failure to qualify for the 2010 tournament in South Africa

Unlike England, Jordaan has been at Euro 2008 and has insisted that South Africa are on track with preparations

Also in the Austrian capital was George Weah, who helped take the world's biggest tournament to Africa

Jordaan added that there are no fears of hooliganism if England do make it to South Africa.  

  MAY 1 - LONDON agencies Bell Pottinger and Fast Track have been appointed to lead Madrid's bid to host the 2016 Olympics, it was announced today.

Fast Track also supported communications for the winning bids for the Beijing 2008 Olympics, South Africa

THE biggest event to be staged before the London 2012 Olympics will be the 2010 World Cup in South Africa

would ideally be the case – and will almost certainly remain so in 2010  As Statham explained, South Africa

would normally want to see this increased to 15-20 per cent – particularly for a country such as South Africa

should help to ensure that the power network proves up to the task in 2010  Statham said: “South Africa

”  Overall, Statham seemed confident South Africa would rise to the task, particularly as efficiency

So would South Africa be OK, all things considered?