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Sprinter Akani Simbine's 2020 dream has been deferred as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic that has resulted in the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics to 2021. Experienced as an athlete and significantly matured, the 26-year-old sprinter was confident he would attain the podium finish his talent deserves.
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South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya has said she believes she will be successful in 200m events regardless of the result of her appeal to overturn a decision by the Court of Arbitration for Sport which approved athletics governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations to prescribe hormone-suppressing drugs for any woman with disorder of sex development (DSD) from competing in 400m to 1,500m events. "I call myself 'supernatural', so I can do anything that
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Oscar Dennis scored two of Kenya's five tries to see them crush Uganda Cranes 31-0 at the Bosman Stadium in Johannesburg to qualify for the Olympics and also recapture the Africa Cup title. Kenya last won the crown in 2015, while Uganda lifted the trophy in 2016 and 2017 before Zimbabwe in 2018.
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Apart from booking a slot in the Olympics for a second consecutive time, the Lionesses have also earned themselves a slot for the Hong Kong leg of the World Sevens Series qualification set for April 2020.
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African countries that were represented at the Special Olympics in Abu Dhabi, saw their athletes do so with pride - many returning home with their baggage much heavier with several medal wins. Among some winners were Nigeria with 63 medals, Sudan with 40 medals and Uganda with nine medals.
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Africa has reason to be satisfied with the performance so far at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, having won multiple medals. With South Africa, Egypt, Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia, Nigeria, Uganda, Mauritius and Burundi having at least one gold medal each, the continent looks forward to getting more as the competition continues.
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The International Olympic Committee has officially awarded the west African nation for the 4th Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2022 which will be shared between the country's capital Dakar, Diamniadio and Saly. One of the highlights of the games will be the leading rugby sevens teams competing against each other.
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Despite the Pyeongchang games hosting the largest ever number of African nations at a single Winter Olympics event with eight African nations participating, the race to become the first African to win a medal at the Winter Olympics will have to wait until the next games in Beijing in 2022. While they did not make history as the first Africans to win a medal at the event, many African athletes
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Team Nigeria has proven that there's no such thing as impossible as they made history as the first African nation to finish their first run in the women's bobsled event at the 2018 Winter Olympics.
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The biggest beneficiary of the National Lottery Commission, ever, is the South African Sports Confederation & Olympic Committee (Sascoc), which has been allocated a little more than R779-million since 2006.
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