The Olympic Flame dies here in Tokyo after an Olympic Games that have, for all sorts of reasons, been like no other.

Ethiopia’s marathon champion Abebe Bikila was the only athlete from Africa to win gold.

Kenyan roll of honour.In the 1960s, the newly independent African nations lobbied for the exclusion of South

Africa as a protest against the apartheid system that discriminated on the grounds of skin colour.

Although the International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not formally expel South Africa from the Olympic

The South Korean capital Seoul won convincingly against the Japanese city of Nagoya, but many predicted

Barry Hendricks, President of the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has

’s rugby sevens team, which competed in Tokyo, could be interested in joint training camps with the South

African team, which has long been a force at international level.A closer partnership between the South

SASCOC’s acting chief executive Ravi Govender invited Pozdnyakov to head up an ROC delegation visit to South

Africa when the joint programmes are launched to see first-hand how effectively they are working.

metres breaststroke title in a world record to secure the first swimming gold medal at these Games for South

Africa on a day when Emma McKeown added Australia’s sixth gold with an Olympic record in the women’s

record she had missed by 0.05 seconds in the heats to 2min 18.95sec.In so doing she maintained a proud South

who won bronze in the 100m breaststroke here in defending her title, did all she could to thwart the South

won a gold medal," said McKeon, before adding, with reference to her home town of Wollongong in New South

World Netball has revealed a "Your Netball World" mosaic to mark two years until the Netball World Cup in Cape Town.

netball stars such as England's Commonwealth Games gold medallists Beth Cobden and Eboni Usoro-Brown, South

draw will also take place to mark two years until the World Cup.One lucky entrant will win a trip to South

Africa to watch the competition.World Netball will also soon be announcing a Courage Ambassador - promised

The men’s triathlon has been a family affair for the Brownlee brothers in the last two Olympics, but that is about to change because only Jonny Brownlee will be taking his place on the start line at the Odaiba Marine Park here.

 Rio bronze medallist Henri Schoeman of South Africa is set to take his place on the start line

The Netherlands women's hockey team will be looking for Olympic redemption when they compete here at Tokyo 2020 as they aim to maintain their record of winning every major tournament since their shock loss in the final at Rio 2016.

group stage of the event.They are joined by Rio 2016 bronze medallists Germany, Ireland, India and South

Africa in Pool B."

harbouring strong hopes for gold.Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands are in Pool B with Canada, Britain and South

Africa, while Argentina, Australia, hosts Japan, India, New Zealand and Spain make up Pool A.Six men's

Serbia and United States will hope to repeat their Rio 2016 triumphs as men’s and women’s water polo competition begins at the Tokyo Tatsumi International Swimming Center on the first official day of Tokyo 2020 competition.

ImagesWorld champions Italy head Group A with their opponents including hosts Japan, Greece, Hungary, South

Africa and the United States.The top four nations in each group will advance to the quarter-finals of

line-up.European champions Spain feature in Group A, alongside Australia, Canada, the Netherlands and South

football campaign at the postponed Olympic Games off to a winning start as they beat a COVID-19-hit South

Africa in their opening match here.

spectators inside the stadium due to the ban on fans attending the majority of events at Tokyo 2020.South

Africa, missing Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi after they became the first athletes to test positive

contacts within the squad were identified, and it showed in their sluggish first-half performance.South Africa

ImagesJapan were dominant from the first whistle but could not find a way past Ronwen Williams in the South

with space in the box but his tame effort was safely collected by Japanese goalkeeper Kosei Tani.South Africa

The Japanese men’s football team have not expressed concerns over facing coronavirus-hit South Africa

Olympic Committee (JOC), claimed that no players had raised any issues since it was confirmed that South

Africa had been struck by an outbreak of coronavirus.Two players and one member of support staff tested

believes that the correct anti-virus measures are being undertaken to ensure the match between Japan and South

Africa takes place.Japan’s Chef de Mission Tsuyoshi Fukui insists there have not been "any major issues

South Africa's men's assistant rugby sevens coach Renfred Dazel has claimed the upheaval caused to their

South Africa head coach Neil Powell has tested positive for COVID-19 ©Getty ImagesDazel said the players

South African footballers Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi were the first athletes to test positive

11,000 infections yesterday.The crisis has also impacted the British and Irish Lions rugby tour to South

Africa with a number of cases across both camps.Levan Maisashvili, Georgia's rugby head coach, is also

Maisashvili is in hospital after suffering "serious lung damage" from COVID-19 during the team’s tour of South

Africa.

Maisashvili’s condition", they said in a statement.They revealed that he is receiving care in "one of South

Associated Press that Maisashvili had not been vaccinated against COVID-19.Georgia had travelled to South

Africa as part of a two-test series to aid the Springboks’ preparations for the British and Irish Lions

begin on Saturday (July 24).Five Georgian players also tested positive for COVID-19 during the tour in South

Africa, but were due to return home today ©Getty ImagesSouth Africa is suffering a deadly third wave

South African footballers Thabiso Monyane and Kamohelo Mahlatsi have become the first athletes to test

South African officials confirmed Monyane and Mahlatsi were those affected.Another unnamed athlete has

Olympic campaign against Japan at Tokyo Stadium on Thursday (July 22), has also tested positive.The South

Africa squad is now in quarantine, officials said, but the rest of the team has tested negative.A spokesperson

expecting the team to be able to play their first game later this week.Tokyo 2020 is coordinating with South

Africa to allow them to return to training, the spokesperson added.South Africa's rugby sevens coach

West Indies have been drawn in the same group as current world number one side England, Australia and South

Africa for this year's International Cricket Council (ICC) Men's T20 World Cup.

South African National Boxing Organisation (SANABO) President Siyabulela Mkhwalo has admitted that having

February of last year before COVID-19 pushed the Games back by 12 months.According to Sunday World, South

2020 in Paris was cancelled, meaning the best ranked boxers per region received Tokyo 2020 berths and South

Africa missed out.The country also did not field boxers at Rio 2016, but had done at every Olympics

Africa at London 2012 when the country last appeared at the Olympic Games ©Getty Images"This has brought

South Africa has won six gold medals in boxing in its Olympic history.Their last successes were George

England’s netball team are set to begin preparations for their Commonwealth Games title defence in a new multi-million-pound training base in Jersey.

theatre.It has also hosted the British and Irish Lions rugby team before they left for their current tour of South

Africa.