The first senior World Hockey5s event has been scheduled to take place in Lausanne next June, it has been announced.

Poland.Teams from India, Switzerland and Poland will also take part in the women’s competition alongside South

Africa and Uruguay.Entry to the competition will be free and the event will be broadcast live on the

Former South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) chief executive Tubby Reddy

harassment was "total fabrication and vindictiveness".View this post on InstagramA post shared by Volleyball South

Africa (@volleyballsa)Despite the unsavoury end to his SASCOC tenure, the National Olympic Committee

honour in 2017 following a series of missed financial deadlines.Reddy was also a former Volleyball South

Africa President, and Honorary Life President of the organisation.

The line-up for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup has begun to take shape with 12 nations having booked their places alongside the host nation for next year’s 32-team tournament.

scorer in European qualification with 12 goals, matching Depay.Argentina and Brazil became the first South

playoff system, with matches to be held in March.Brazil and Argentina have advanced from the gruelling South

World Cup host nations on 14 points, which places them in an inter-confederation playoff place.Iran and South

, Ghana, Senegal, Morocco and the Democratic Republic of Congo topped their respective groups.South Africa

Africa on points.The Oceania Football Confederation qualifiers are due to be staged in March after a

The United States will host an International Cricket Council (ICC) World Cup for the first time, having been confirmed as the destination for the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup alongside the West Indies.

Scotland the 2030 T20 World Cup.The 2027 Cricket World Cup - a 50-over competition - is heading to South

Africa, Zimbabwe and Namibia, while India and Bangladesh have won the rights to the 2031 edition.India

Australian captain Michael Hooper is among the nominees for the 2021 World Rugby Awards, with eight categories being revealed including best men's and women's players in 15s and sevens disciplines.

women's Simon Middleton, New Zealand men's Ian Foster and Australia men's Dave Rennie.Lukhanyo Am of South

Africa, Frenchmen Pierre-Louis Barassi and Damian Penaud and Luke Jacobson of New Zealand are all in

Three new members have been inducted into the International Cricket Council (ICC) Cricket Hall of Fame, with the ceremony taking place before yesterday's ICC Men's Twenty20 (T20) World Cup Final between Australia and New Zealand.

the winning team at the 2014 Men's T20 World Cup.He also reached four other major ICC finals.Finally, South

ODIs.Jayawardena scored 1,493 runs in 55 T20 internationals and a total of 374 runs in a single match against South

Africa in 2006, which is the fourth-highest on the all-time list.He scored 11,814 Test runs at an average

International Cycling Union (UCI) Cycling Esports World Championships winner, Ashleigh Moolman Pasio of South

Africa, has launched the Rocacorba Collective with the aim of revolutionising ecycling.

Canoeing could soon be making its debut as a Commonwealth Games sport if the new President of the International Canoe Federation (ICF), Thomas Konietzko, has his wish.

traditional sport in some parts of the Commonwealth world such as Britain, New Zealand, Australia and South

Africa."

In terms of altering itself to fit the ever-changing needs of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), the International Canoe Federation (ICF) has been in sprint mode in recent years - but it seems, under the new Presidency of Thomas Konietzko, that future progress may be more of a slalom.

We have significantly increased the reach of our sport in North and South America, Asia and Oceania.

really big rise in our reach in parts of the world where previously we haven’t performed as well - South

traditional sport in some parts of the Commonwealth world such as Britain, New Zealand, Australia and South

Africa."

Birmingham 2022 has revealed the schedules for the women's cricket and netball tournaments which will take place at next year's Commonwealth Games.

with matches due to take place at Edgbaston.Group B will begin on July 30 with New Zealand taking on South

in the final game of the group stage.Three-time champions Australia headline Group B and will meet South

Africa in their first confirmed game after two clashes against qualifiers.The semi-finals featuring

A new-look International Sambo Federation (FIAS) Executive Committee is set to be elected at the organisation’s Congress here in Uzbek capital Tashkent tomorrow.

candidates are standing - six women and 16 men representing 21 different countries from Europe, Asia, Africa

and North and South America.Secretary general Roberto Ferraris of Italy and current Executive Committee

Korchagina, Avtandil Tsintsadze of Georgia, Orsolya Papp-Marta of Hungary, Shay Gaizinger of Israel, South

Bulgarian Mariya Oryashkova, Paule Sitcheping of Cameroon, Jule-Marie Horn of Germany, Shin Jae-yong of South

A new name will be announced when the countries and territories are introduced at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony - that of Eswatini.

The small country in Southern Africa was known as Swaziland until April 2018, when King Mswati III ushered

Our star athletes are in camp in South Africa, just getting themselves ready and training," said Maphanga

Africa at a time when international travel was halted."

Africa," said Maphanga.

At least now we are able to travel to South Africa, we are able to compete there.

The European Tour will be rebranded as the DP World Tour after striking a new sponsorship deal that is set to double the total prize money to $200 million (£147.5 million/€172.5 million) from next season.

will be held in Europe with the new-look DP World Tour schedule, due to start with the Joburg Open in South

Africa from November 22 to 25, featuring stops at 27 different countries."

tournaments solely sanctioned by the DP World Tour.There will be new tournaments in the United Arab Emirates, South

Africa and Belgium as well as an expanded Rolex Series comprising of the Abu Dhabi HSBC Championship

Hosts Peru will begin this year's Under-18 Women's Softball World Cup with a clash against The Netherlands, while defending champions United States will start by facing Colombia.

tournament's first match at 10am local time before their game with the Americans in the afternoon.South Africa

play back-to-back fixtures, meeting Puerto Rico and Colombia consecutively on day three and Mexico and South

Africa in a double header on December 11, the last day of round-robin matches.This will be the first

International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Thomas Bach has made an urgent plea to Governments around the world to create legal sanctions against criminal activity within sport, adding that those currently in place "will not help at all".

South African captain Hansie Cronje was banned from cricket because of links to illegal bookmakers in

cricket match-fixing scandals of 2000 that cost three Test captains their careers: Hansie Cronje of South

Africa, Mohammad Azharuddin of India and Salim Malik of Pakistan were banned for life for alleged links