France scored a dramatic try with the clock on red in Paris last night to deny Wales the Grand Slam and keep the Six Nations Championship alive until the very last act on Friday (March 26).

Nations began in the early 1880s ©Getty ImagesRugby was also gaining in popularity in New Zealand and South

Africa, the men's World Cup champions in 2019.In France, the first French rugby cup was refereed by

This featured teams from New Zealand, Britain, Australia, South Africa and Canada.It was the nearest

that the idea of such a tournament was suggested.Rugby was growing in popularity in New Zealand and South

Africa towards the end of the 19th century ©Getty ImagesIn the mid 1960s, Australian newspapers reported

La Seu in Spain is set to stage the African canoe slalom qualifier for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games this weekend.

Seu.The African Olympic qualifier is being staged in Spain at a time when travel to the country from South

Africa is banned, as well as from the United Kingdom and Brazil, due to concerns over new coronavirus

The International Cricket Council (ICC) has postponed three regional qualification events on the path to the 2022 Men’s T20 World Cup in Australia.

The governing body has postponed the Asia A qualifier due to COVID-19, as well as the Sub Regional Africa

their respective countries were cited as another contributing factor.The ICC said the sub-regional Africa

A and B qualification events were due to take place in South Africa in April.The events have now been

the dates for the Under-19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Africa Qualifier to ease calendar congestion and

The rescheduled ICC U19 Men’s Cricket World Cup Africa Division 2 qualifier is now due to be held from

Eight teams are set to battle it out for the final two places in the men's football tournament at Tokyo 2020 at the delayed Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football Olympic qualifier in Mexico.

qualified for Tokyo 2020 - hosts Japan, France, Germany, Romania, Spain, New Zealand, Egypt, Ivory Coast, South

Africa, Australia, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, Argentina and Brazil.Football matches at the Games are

The African Weightlifting Championships have been postponed again less than three weeks before they were due to start, adding further confusion to the qualifying programme for the delayed Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Weightlifting Federation of Africa.One of those who could not make the April dates was Mona Pretorius of South

Africa, who is still unhappy despite the change of dates.Pretorius, a Commonwealth Games medallist who

World Rugby interim chief executive Alan Gilpin has described the launched of WXV - a new women’s international competition - as a "landmark" moment for the sport and believes it will be the "catalyst" to growing the women’s game.

third tier WXV 3 competition will include two teams from Europe, one from Asia and the winner of an Africa

versus South America play-off.A match will also be held between the fourth-ranked team and the best

Former FIFA employee Véron Mosengo-Omba has been named Confederation of African Football (CAF) general secretary, following the election of Patrice Motsepe as the organisation’s new President.

denied influencing the outcome of the election.The FIFA President, who travelled to several nations in Africa

vice-president.Yahya has also been co-opted onto the CAF Executive Committee, it has been confirmed.The election of South

Two-time Olympic gold medallist Caster Semenya has received a significant financial boost in her bid to overturn World Athletics' rules to allow her to compete in her favoured events at this year’s Tokyo 2020 Games.

The South African Government’s Department of Sport, Arts and Culture has pledged R12 million (£576,600

appeal to the European Court of Human Rights against her testosterone ruling, according to newspaper The South

African.The funding pledge comes after Athletics South Africa asked the department to support Semenya

Supreme Court of Switzerland against the World Athletics regulations over the past two years.Last month South

against World Athletics Female Athletes Classification Regulations," Mthethwa said in a report by The South

The Badminton World Federation (BWF) has confirmed the cancellation of two tournaments in North America, and that this year's Asian Championships will not be held before the Olympic qualification window closes.

closes and Guatemala City is slated to stage Pan American Championships.An undetermined location in South

Africa is penciled in to host the African Championships, but the COVID-19 situation in the country would

South Africa’s Patrice Motsepe has been named as the new President of the Confederation of African Football

Africa needs collective wisdom, but also the exceptional talent and wisdom of every [National Federation

When we all work together, football in Africa will experience success and growth that it has not enjoyed

of Harmony Gold, one of the world’s largest gold mining companies.He is also the brother-in-law of South

A South African weightlifter’s chance of realising a lifelong dream of competing at the Olympic Games

Pretorius' travel agent is that flights to Madagascar are banned from 44 countries, six of them from Africa

, including South Africa.Another is Tunisia, one of Africa’s leading weightlifting nations, which is

there.When insidethegames sent messages to Khaled Mehalhel, President of the Weightlifting Federation of Africa

South African billionaire Patrice Motsepe is expected to be declared as the new President of the Confederation

related activities for two years for financial misconduct.Tebogo Motlanthe, chief executive of the South

$2.1 billion (£1.54 billion/€1.71 billion) and was the first black African on the Forbes rich list.The South

largest gold mining companies.He is also the owner of the Mamelodi Sundowns Football Club who play in the South

moral standards," said an unnamed President of a sub-Saharan African football federation in a report by Africa

Tokyo 2020 President Seiko Hashimoto has suggested the number of times athletes are tested for coronavirus could be increased amid growing fears over the spread of more transmissible variants.

increasing the testing frequency after the emergence of variants first identified in the United Kingdom, South

Africa and Brazil which are continuing to spread worldwide.Speaking to Japanese media, Hashimoto revealed

World Rugby has today confirmed the postponement of the Rugby World Cup 2021 by 12 months.

alongside one qualifier each from Europe and Asia.Two-time winners England are due to meet France, South

Africa and Fiji in Pool C.New Zealand has been widely praised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic

Chon Jong-won and Seo Chae-hyun have been allocated the remaining two quota places for the sport climbing contest at this year's Olympic Games in Tokyo.

 Consequently, the quota places were given to South Korea's Chon and Seo in accordance with the

championships which allocated quota places were also able to take place for Europe, the Americas, Oceania and Africa