World Lacrosse and the Limerick 2022 Organising Committee have announced that a record 23 teams will play at next year's Men's Under-21 World Championship.

Poland, Puerto Rico, Sweden and Uganda.Five continents will be represented - Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa

Chinese Taipei, the Czech Republic, England, Germany, Hong Kong, Iroquois Nationals, Israel, Japan, South

South African athletes are using leftover supplies of the single-jab Johnson and Johnson vaccine as part

Speaking to the Associated Press, Ravi Govender, acting chief executive of the South African Sports Confederation

if we were vaccinating with two shots," Govender told the Associated Press.According to the report, South

Africa is set to receive 600 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, but Govender revealed there had been

Africa as part of a study, called Sisonka, run by the Department of Health and the South African Medical

Africa, while a variant of the virus first detected in the country continues to spread worldwide and

The Colombian Olympic Committee (COC) has announced that its athletes will be part of a prioritised programme of vaccination against COVID-19 in time to compete at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

to compete in Tokyo who have announced prioritised vaccination programmes for their athletes.Fiji, South

Africa and Australia are among those who have announced similar programmes within the last month.According

Hosts and reigning champions New Zealand are set to meet rivals Australia on the opening day of next year's rescheduled Rugby World Cup.

All the opening-day matches will be held at Eden Park in Auckland with South Africa and France clashing

while Pool B comprises of qualifiers from Europe and Asia as well as Canada and the US.England, France, South

Africa and Fiji make-up Pool C.The top two teams in each pool and the two best third-placed teams will

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) has reportedly confirmed it will begin vaccinating athletes and support staff against COVID-19 prior to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Several nations have taken up the IOC’s vaccine offer, including Britain, Fiji, South Africa and Brazil.The

Venezuela's Yulimar Rojas is in awesome form as she prepares to compete in tomorrow night's second Diamond League meeting of the season at the Khalifa Stadium in Doha, where she retained her world triple jump title in 2019.

contested a hurdles race since the 2019 World Championships final, but a 45.43 clocking on the flat in South

Africa two months ago shows he is in good shape.Commonwealth champion Kyron McMaster of the British

Khaled Mehalhel has been re-elected for a third term as President of the Weightlifting Federation of Africa

fellow Libyan, will continue as secretary general, and the new first vice-president is Kevin du Plooy of South

Africa, who replaces Salim Musoke of Uganda.On being appointed, Mehalhel told the media in Nairobi that

Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.In the absence of Egypt, the gap between African weightlifting, certainly south

Cameroon, Morocco, Ghana and Mauritius are represented in Nairobi, while others, most notably from South

Africa, wait in hope that those ahead of them in the rankings opt for another weight category.

Sally Gunnell had never competed at a major championships before her appearance as a 20-year-old at the Edinburgh 1986 Commonwealth Games, and when she won the sprint hurdles she was in a quandary.

Commonwealth stayed at home because of the presence of New Zealand, whose rugby team still competed against South

Africa when most of the rest of the world would have nothing to do with the apartheid regime.Sally Gunnell

Tunisian Nihel Cheikh Rouhou claimed an 11th gold medal with a victory in the women's over-78 kilogram category on the final day of the African Judo Championships in Dakar in Senegal.

bronze in the men's under-100kg ©Getty ImagesIvory Coast's Koffi Kreme Kobena defeated Lwazi Mapitiza of South

Africa and Mohammed Lahboub of Morocco won against Gabon's Luc Manongho in the bronze medal matches.Finally

Vaccinations against COVID-19 are to be offered to all South African athletes due to head to Tokyo for

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) has confirmed that it has agreed

Committee (IOC) offer of Pfizer-BioNTech does of the vaccine.The rollout has been discussed with the South

Africa, while a variant of the virus first detected in the country continues to spread worldwide and

 South Africa has inoculated just one per cent of its population, but the SASCOC insists the athletes

Africa collected 10 Olympic medals - including golds for sprinter Wayde van Niekerk and middle-distance

Reigning world and European champion Oliver Zeidler progressed to the quarter-finals of the men’s single sculls at the Rowing World Cup regatta in Swiss city Lucerne.

of Italy and Gary O’Donovan of Ireland won the remaining heats to advance to the final.Britain and South

Africa triumphed in the second heat of the men’s four, finishing ahead of Poland and Romania respectively.There

Twenty-five years ago this week, they opened the stadium for the Centennial Olympics in Atlanta with a star-studded Athletics Grand Prix meeting.

Payne, it became reality after the International Olympic Committee (IOC) voted to head for the Deep South

swimming for Penny Heyns and marathon success for Josiah Thugwane, the first Olympic champions from South

Africa in the post-apartheid era.When IOC President Samaranch closed the Games he said: "These Centennial

Salt Lake City in the United States is poised to host two stages of the International Federation of Sport Climbing (IFSC) World Cup season in the space of eight days.

from China, Puerto Rico, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Serbia, Russia, Slovenia, Belgium, France, South

Africa, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Ukraine, Canada, Israel and Japan.Athletes will use the events

Elaine Rice has been appointed as Northern Ireland's netball head coach for a fourth time, as the team bids to qualify for the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

qualification not only to the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022 but also the 2023 World Cup in South

Africa.

Cricket Australia has contacted former Test opener Cameron Bancroft inviting him to provide new information regarding the ball-tampering scandal.

sanctioned for their involvement in the scandal, which erupted during the third Test match against South

Africa back in 2018.Bancroft was captured in television footage rubbing a homemade form of sandpaper