As part of Durban's bid to host the 2018 Winter Olympics, the Evaluation Commission of the International Olympics Committee (IOC) visited the eThekwini Municipality at the weekend.

Senate committee chairman on sports, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, has described the attitude of the presidency towards Nigeria's participation at the forthcoming Olympics in China as serious contradiction capable of being detrimental to the development of sports in the country and

UNITED States-based long jumper Ngonidzashe Makusha is set to write his own piece of history by becoming only the second athlete to represent Zimbabwe in the field events at the Olympic Games.

SWIMMERS Aya Nakitanda and Gilbert Kaburu have joined Uganda's team to the Beijing Olympic Games on special invitations from the world swimming federation.