A total of 51 surfers have been confirmed as part of the line-up for the 2022 World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT), featuring defending champions Gabriel Medina of Brazil and Hawaiian Olympic champion Carissa Moore.

bronze medallist Japan's Amuro Tsuzuki has not made the cut.Women's silver medallist Bianca Buitendag of South

Africa does not feature either, following her retirement after the Games.South Africa's Matthew McGillivray

New International Federation of American Football (IFAF) President Pierre Trochet has argued a busy calendar of events in the next two years is an opportunity to "showcase what we are capable of" as the organisation pursues inclusion at the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics.

achieved ©Getty Images"COVID hit all of our members, speaking for Europe, speaking for Asia, speaking for Africa

We are looking forward to having some competition in Asia, in Africa, in South America, of course in

The end of another year means it is time to crown the International Olympic Committee's (IOC) Top Tweeter of 2021 - and for the first time since 2018, there is a new champion.

million followers on the social media platform.That is approximately equivalent to the population of the South

and 18 women.Europe leads the way in quantity as well as followers with 15 members in the new top 40; Africa

has six; South and Central America and the Caribbean seven; Asia five; the Middle East four; North America

On this day in 1879, Australian fast bowler Fred Spofforth dismissed three English batsmen with consecutive deliveries at the Melbourne Cricket Ground to complete Test cricket's first "hat-trick".

leg-spinner Jimmy Matthews had done even better than that by taking two hat-tricks in the same match against South

Africa at Old Trafford as the two nations played in a triangular tournament also involving England.In

Egyptian Sports Minister Ashraf Sobhy has revealed the country plans to bid for the 2036 Olympics and will seek to become the first African nation to stage the Games.

Olympics.Sobhy said he had held a recent meeting with Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

Turkey and Ukraine have all expressed an interest in bidding for the 2036 Olympic Games.Cape Town in South

Africa was the last African city to bid for the Olympics as it lost out to Greek capital Athens for

the 2004 Games, finishing third out of five bidders in the poll in 1997.South Africa has also been previously

At the beginning of my term [in 2013], I had a dream that the Olympic games would be hosted in Africa

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has claimed "Desmond Tutu was a firm believer in the Olympic values" as tributes pour in for the clergyman and civil rights activist who has died aged 90.

Tutu was a leading anti-apartheid figure in South Africa, which led to global fame and being awarded

Archbishop of Cape Town in 1986, which is the most important position in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa

the 2004 Games.An Olympics in Cape Town could "bring prosperity to our country and all the people of Africa

 "It was his fervent wish that he could see the Olympic Games being celebrated in his beloved South

Africa."

England's Ben Gollings will become the head coach of rugby sevens double-Olympic champions Fiji, it has been announced.

 The Rugby Sevens World Cup in South Africa is also scheduled to take place next year and will be

By this time next year, the 2022 FIFA World Cup will be over, the first to be held in the Northern hemisphere winter. 

and 1958 winners Brazil qualified automatically, but there was no guaranteed representation for Africa

Meanwhile, Yugoslavia beat South Korea, the top Asian nation, meaning there was no African or Asian team

They must be favourites," admitted Hungary’s coach Lajos Baroti, just returned from a South American

 Led by Zito, Brazil became the first South American country to win successive World Cups in 1962

gave Czechoslovakia the lead, but Amarildo, Zito and Vava replied for Brazil, who became the first South

Next month's Africa Cup of Nations will go ahead as planned, the Confederation of African Football (CAF

The South African official met with Cameroon's President Paul Biya to address reports that the main Olembe

to 2023 and 2025, respectively.Several European clubs are also reluctant to release players for the Africa

Reuters.Construction delays at the main Olembe Stadium have been among the concerns in the build-up to the delayed Africa

New Cameroonian Football Federation President Samuel Eto'o - a two-time Africa Cup of Nations winner

The Africa Cup of Nations is scheduled to last from January 9 to February 6, with 24 teams taking part

The Ghana Taekwondo Federation (GTF) has begun a youth development project at Aburi Girls Senior High School, aimed at increasing interest in the combat sport with an eye on the post-COVID-19 era.

two other schools to wrap up the programme this week.National Federations from Senegal, Madagascar, South

Africa, Gabon, Mauritania and Ethiopia have also won AFTU grants for development projects.

The International Swimming Federation (FINA) is expected to ratify sweeping reforms to the organisation - including the introduction of an independent integrity unit - when it stages its Extraordinary General Congress here in Abu Dhabi tomorrow.

force until June 2022 when the organisation stages it next Congress in Fukuoka in Japan.Jace Naidoo, of South

Africa, Hana Novotna of the Czech Republic and Ahmad Qadmani of Saudi Arabia are expected to be appointed

Hong Kong’s Siobhán Haughey stole the headlines on the opening day International Swimming Federation World Swimming Championships (25m) after breaking the women’s 200 metres freestyle world record here in Abu Dhabi.

behind to snatch the title in a thrilling final.Ten-time world short course champion Chad Le Clos of South

Africa made a strong start as he turned first after the opening 50m before Norway's Tomoe Hvas launched

Australian Para swimmer Matt Levy and British Virgin Islands sprinter Ashley Kelly have been added to the Commonwealth Games Federation's Athletes Advisory Commission.

confirmed by the CGF Executive Board.Levy has become the Commission's Para sport representative in place of South

Asia is represented by Singapore gymnast Lim Heem Wei.Botswana boxer Lechezdani Luza is the member for Africa

France's Anne-Cécile Ciofani and Marcos Moneta of Argentina have been named women's and men's World Rugby Sevens Players of the Year.

2018, scored his tries at key moments, namely a brace in the quarter-finals as the Argentines held off South

Africa to keep their medal hopes alive.Moneta is the first Argentinian to win the accolade after beating

Bearers have worn gloves and masks as the Commonwealth Games Baton visited South Africa, despite concerns

 Economic and other problems forced it hand back the Games in 2017.South African Sports Confederation

Quartet in the early 1980s, who played a violin solo as part of the event.The Baton had arrived in South

Africa from St Helena, where it visited every school during a two-day stay.

medallist in 1994, was greeted with further dances when the Relay reached Toteng village some 65 kilometres south