It's exactly a week to go until team SA take part in the much anticipated 2012 Olympic games, where former world track champion Caster Semenya will carry the country's flag at the ... Read more »
Olympic hopeful Ezekiel Kemboi has opted to come back to the country to train after spending only four days at Team Kenya's Bristol training camp in Britain. Read more »
Despite training under difficult conditions in the war-torn country, the two-strong team are proud to be representing Somalia at the London Olympic games. Read more »
Nigeria's sport minister, Mallam Bolaji Abdullahi, explains the federal governments decision to ban official delegates from attending the 2012 London Olympics. Read more »
The feud between distance runners and the country's Olympics body over departure dates for the London 2012 games has been resolved after athletes were given leeway to decide ... Read more »
Double amputee, Oscar Pistorius, has beaten all odds by qualifying for the London Olympics, amid controversy of the "unfair advantage" posed by the carbon fibre legs he uses. Read more »
South Africa's Olympians are given an encouraging send off by the country's president Jacob Zuma. Read more »
As athletes go through their final preparations, few have gone through greater hardship than one young man, Lopez Lomong, who went from running to save his own life to running to ... Read more »
The Director of Public Prosecutions wants to review the case file of star athlete Ezekiel Kemboi, expressing reservations with how police conducted the investigation into assault ... Read more »
As the first batch of Kenyan athletes depart for the Olympics, an official announcement is made that the country will represented by two boxers. Read more »
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