The final places for the rowing event at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics were secured following a dramatic day on the water in Lucerne.

South Africa and Canada took the two qualification places on offer in the men’s four, while ROC and Canada

The British and Irish Lions' tour to South Africa is set to be played behind closed doors, with matches

third.Four fixtures are then set to be held in Cape Town, including the opener between the Lions and South

Africa, before Johannesburg stages the final two tests.SA Rugby had called on the country’s Government

financial implications" of playing in empty stadiums.Those pleas appear to have fallen on deaf ears.South Africa

Africa without spectators in attendance ©Getty Images"It has been a challenging process with dozens

The British and Irish Lions have toured South Africa on 13 previous occasions, with the first coming

Alyssa Healy and Babar Azam have been named the International Cricket Council (ICC) Players of the Month for April.

ICC award.Pakistan talisman Azam was given the men's award for excelling in white-ball series versus South

Africa and Zimbabwe.A 59-ball 122 in a Twenty20 against South Africa was Azam's standout performance

More than 130 athletes from 37 countries are taking part in the three-day Paracanoe World Cup that got underway at Szeged in Hungary today, doubling as the final Tokyo 2020 Paralympics qualifier.

their Games debut, five years after paracanoe made its first appearance in Rio in 2016.Athletes from Africa

, South, Central and North America, Asia, Europe, Oceania and the Middle East have all been nominated

The Weightlifting Federation of Africa (WFA) has been accused of ignoring athlete safety after it moved

to arrange flights, especially because it’s not always possible to fly direct to Nairobi from within Africa

," said De Lacey, a South African."

I have been contacted by other athletes from around Africa and we think the African federation should

Nepalese cricketer Kushal Bhurtel is among the nominees for the men’s International Cricket Council (ICC) Player of the Month award for April.

Virat Kohli’s long reign at the top of the charts.His match-winning 82-ball 94 in the third ODI against South

Africa helped him gain 13 rating points to reach a career-best 865 points.Azam also contributed 122

Zaman produced a stellar showing during the month, scoring two centuries in the ODI series victory over South

Africa, including 193 in the second match in Johannesburg.The shortlist of nominees for the women’s

FIFA has announced the postponement of African qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup which had been due to take place in June.

face Gabon, Libya and Angola.Ghana, Africa’s most recent quarter-finalists back in 2010, will play South

Africa, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia in Group G.The qualification process for Qatar 2022 has been heavily disrupted

until June, with organisers opting for centralised locations to ensure fixtures can take place.The South

World number one Gabriel Medina was eliminated in the last 16 stage as the World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour continued at Margaret River.

semi-finals and lost by 9.84 to 9.53.Moniz’s reward is a quarter-final against Matthew McGillivray after the South

set up a quarter-final with compatriot Griffin Colapinto.The winner will face either Jordy Smith of South

Africa or Australia’s Ryan Callinan in the last four.A 9.23 sends @tatiwest straight to the semifinals.Watch

Former World Taekwondo vice-president and World Taekwondo Africa head Ahmed Fouly has been posthumously

awarded the Cheongryong Medal, the highest Order of Sports Merit honour available in South Korea.

development and promotion of taekwondo in Africa.Hazem Mostafa Ibrahim Fahmy, Egypt's Ambassador to South

In his capacity as President of Taekwondo Africa, Gen.

 "Five medals from Africa under his leadership at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games truly demonstrated

 "Taekwondo is now one of the most popular sports in Africa, and continues to produce champions

Fouly had led the African Taekwondo Union, now World Taekwondo Africa, since 2004.That position also

Twenty-two athletes from 13 sports and all six populated continents are on the ballot for the summer representative positions of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Athletes' Council.

set at Rio 2016, and includes five nominees from the world of Para athletics.Louzanne Coetzee from South

Africa, Italy's two-time Paralympic champion Martina Caironi, Cuban Omara Durand Elias - five times

Athletics Relays Silesia21 held in a chilly Silesian Stadium as the other titles were spread between South

Africa, The Netherlands, Cuba, Germany and the hosts.

Raw emotions from @AkaniSimbine and @clarence_munyai as South Africa wins the men's 4x100m #WorldRelays

pic.twitter.com/iSl9g8S6Iy— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) May 2, 2021Akani Simbine brought South

Africa home in fine style to take the men’s 4x100m gold in 38.71sec from Italy in second in 39.21, with

Africa they finished in front as Tony Van Diepen timed his final surge to perfection to bring the baton

Africa settling for bronze ahead of Botswana.There was disappointment for the favoured Belgian quartet

Ecuador’s women’s 4x100 metres team, who arrived in Poland ranked 40th in the world standings, will be among the 16 teams contesting the Olympic title this summer after setting a national record of 43.86sec tonight at the World Athletics Relays Silesia21.

World Championships, nevertheless made the final with a time of 38.98.Italy’s Filippo Tortu held off South

bring home victory in 38.45 - the second fastest in the world this year along with Brazil - with the South

claim the second qualifying position in heat three.Japan were second fastest qualifiers on 3:03.31, and South

Africa third on 3:03.79, with a Belgian team including the Borlee brothers and a Botswana team that

The qualifier to decide the Caribbean representative in the women's cricket tournament at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games is set to be held in September, according Cricket West Indies chief executive Johnny Grave.

World champions Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and South Africa have all qualified for the women's

featured at the Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in 1998, which featured a men's competition won by South

International Federation of Teqball (FITEQ) general secretary Marius Vizer Jr has said the governing body's Teqball Roadshow initiative has received positive feedback since its launch in February.

The Teqball Roadshow has so far visited Djibouti, Uzbekistan, Sri Lanka, Cape Verde, Madagascar, South

Africa, Nigeria and Senegal.Under the initiative, the FITEQ will support National Federations during

Roadshow ©FITEQVizer Jr added: "We have seen immediate results from the roadshow visits, for example in South

Africa where we helped the National Federation launch the country’s first teqball club – Teqball Fat

Tokyo 2020 places are the target at the World Athletics Relays which starts tomorrow in Chorzow, Poland - while for the organisers the aspiration will be the staging of the sport’s World Championships.

European indoor 60m title on the home ground of Torun last month after testing positive for COVID-19.The South

0.02sec.Four other nations already qualified for Tokyo 2020 are involved - France, Japan, the Netherlands and South

Africa, whose team members spent more than 30 hours travelling to Poland.The South African team will