Katherine Diaz, one of El Salvador’s best surfers and an Olympic hopeful, died after being struck by lightning while training.

Jamaican sprinter Yohan Blake says he’d rather miss the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo than take the COVID-19 vaccine.

Seven-time Olympian Seiko Hashimoto has been appointed as the president of the Tokyo 2020 organising committee after the resignation of Yoshiro Mori.

South Africa’s most decorated sprint paddler Bridgitte Hartley says she is determined to make her mark at the 2021 Dusi Canoe Marathon.

Former South African 800m record holder Marius van Heerden has died after contracting Covid-19. He was only 46.

World champion swimmer and Olympic prospect Zane Waddell has been forced to give up his dream of swimming for South Africa.

Breakdancing was one of four new sports to get the Olympic green light for inclusion at the 2024 Paris Games.

South African Olympian Roland Schoeman may see his current 1-year suspension extended by another 12 months.

SA gymnast, Caitlin Rooskrantz recently performed her Olympic routine on the same day she would have performed in Tokyo.

SA gymnast, Caitlin Rooskrantz will virtually perform her Olympic routine this August on the same day she would have performed in Tokyo.

Wayde van Niekerk set the current world record over the distance in a sensational Olympic gold medal-winning run in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.

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The postponed Olympics and a worrying second surge in coronavirus cases are the main issues as Tokyo voters elect a governor on Sunday to run one of the world’s most populous cities. Incumbent Yuriko Koike, a media-savvy veteran of the Japanese political scene, who ran against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the last national election […]

Voting for World Rugby’s chairperson position opened on Monday 27 April with incumbent former England captain Bill Beaumont facing competition from ex-Argentina skipper Agustin Pichot.

A clip of Yulia Efimova keeping her core strength up outside the pool has been viewed more than 10 million times on social media.

Retired track star Usain Bolt posted a picture of him outstripping his rivals at the Beijing Olympics with the cheeky caption: ‘Social distancing’.

Tokyo Olympics organisers, Japan’s government and the International Olympic Committee have been adamant the Games will go ahead as planned despite the global panic.

Roland Schoeman has been handed a one-year ban from competition for testing positive for a prohibited substance in May 2019.

This is no way to behave. Terence Parkin, an Olympic medalist for South Africa, was on the receiving end of a nasty road rage incident this week.

Jordy Smith has qualified through the
World Surf League (WSL) Championship Tour (CT) to represent South Africa at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic
Games.

On this day in South African sports history one of the great Olympic moments happened in Barcelona when Elana Meyer won the Silver medal in the Women’s 10,000m.

South African sports history on this day 3 August has seen great successes, near misses and dismal failures.

On this day in 2012 our rowers brought home an Olympic Gold medal from the London games with an inspired performance, the day has also seen a number of other significant events.

Swimming gold at the Olympics and the Golden Lions winning in Super Rugby, I guess you could say 29 July is a golden day.

South Africa’s under 23s have pulled of a great win away from home in putting Angola away 3-1 in Luanda on Friday.