“It was crowded. It was ear-drummingly achingly loud. But it was MAGIC."...

When the World Cup comes to a football-mad country, the organisation that brings it is in a position to do some lasting good.

Elite Paralympic athletes should be barred from Olympic track events because advances in prosthetic technology will soon enable sprinters with artificial legs to run the 100 metres in eight seconds, Dr David James, a sports engineer at Sheffield Hallam University told the audience at the The Times Cheltenham Science Festival.

Gideon Sam, president of the South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) talks to Sportindustry.co.za about South Africa’s sporting hopes for the future and the prospect of the Olympic Games coming to the country.

Women ski jumpers won the hearts of the public but little else in their long, high-profile quest to compete at the 2010 Winter Games.

On Tuesday Croatian police arrested more than a dozen people over alleged match fixing and betting scams in a nationwide anti-corruption operation, a Croatian police spokesman said according to Reuters.

The governance of Turkish football needs to be changed urgently before a massive windfall from TV rights destroys the game forever.

On the eve of the World Cup, the financial bankruptcy of club football has been exposed by new research that shows the top clubs in Brazil and England owe a staggering total of €5.2 billion.