At the Paris 2024 Games, Turkey fielded a small athletics team of 16 athletes and failed to win a single medal. The country’s ...

South Africa has formally declared its intention to enter the race for the 2036 or 2040 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This will position the country as a potential first-time host of the world’s ...

Never count out Oscar Pistorius. The "Blade Runner" will be competing in the London Olympics in his favored 400 meters, after all. The double-amputee runner from South Africa has spent almost all his ...

DURBAN (Reuters) - South Africa has the ability to host a summer Olympic Games following the success of this year's soccer World Cup, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge said ...

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The World Track and Field Championships concluded in September. The cradle of humanity is also the cradle of athletic greatness. Africa has given the world marathon champions from Kenya, sprinters ...

Samuel Gathimba winner 20KM Race Walk dance to the tune of victory during the World Athletics Championships, Tokyo 2025 at The Ulinzi Sports Complex on Tuesday, July 22, 2025. [Jonah Onyango,Standard] ...

Three years after being forced to undergo gender tests, South Africa's 21-year-old Caster Semenya finally ran her first Olympic event Wednesday morning, finishing her 800-meter heat in 2 minutes, 71 ...

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Joan Harrison, who won the women’s 100-meter backstroke at the 1952 Olympics for South Africa, has died on May 20 at age 89. Harrison, who went by her married name Joan Breetzke late in life, was born ...