Thompson became a double Olympic champion at Rio 2016 with gold medals in the 100 and 200 meters, while Fraser-Pryce has seven World Championship titles and two Olympic golds of her own from Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

KINGSTON, JAMAICA (June 29, 2019) — With only 27 days left until the start of the continent's biggest sports festival, Panam Sports has incredible news to share for all lovers of sport, especially fans of Athletics. 

The Olympic Committee of Jamaica has confirmed the official nomination of the athletes who will participate in the Lima 2019 Pan American Games. The incredible list of athletes not only features Team Panam Sports Ambassador Briana Williams, but also two of the greatest sprinters in history: Elaine Thompson and Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.

MIES, Switzerland - FIBA's Executive Committee met on Friday at the Patrick Baumann House of Basketball. It was the last meeting of the 2014-2019 cycle.
With only 63 days to go to the first game of the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 in Beijing, the Central Board received a detailed update on the final preparation works for FIBA's flagship event, including the promotional, operational and commercial aspects. Set to feature a record 32 national teams, the FIBA Basketball World Cup will be played in eight Chinese cities from August 31 to September 15.

​Former Kaizer Chiefs star Pule Ekstein has joined Sabah FC on a two-year contract and will be playing his football in Azerbaijan next season.

His agent Palesa Mkhize said the player jetted out of the country on Wednesday night to begin life in the Azerbaijan Premier League

“Ekstein boarded the flight to Azerbaijan on Wednesday night to join Sabah on a twoyear deal.

“He’s very excited to realise his dream of playing overseas‚” said an equally elated Mkhize.

*Preparation towards the future of Ghana Sports
*6 years Renaissance Plan to move Ghana forward
The International Games & Competitions Committee on Thursday held a meeting with the Press at the Media Centre of the Accra Sports Stadium.
The members of the Committee were introduced and they briefed the media on their activities and mandate.
Some of the members who spoke were Magnus Rex Danquah, Professor Peter Twumasi and Dr. Emmanuel Owusu Ansah.
Present were executive board members of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC), secretary general, Richard Akpokavie, deputy secretary general Rev. Richmond Quarcoo, Nana Adu Mankatta aka George Owusu Ansah and president of the GOC Ben Nunoo Mensah

SAN ANTONIO AND MEXICO CITY – The Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF), the City of San Antonio, San Antonio Sports and Soccer United Marketing (SUM) today announced that two-time FIFA World Cup champions Argentina will be Mexico’s rival for the previously-announced MexTour match at San Antonio’s Alamodome on Tuesday, September 10 – presented by Nissan.  The match will be the fifth and final match of the 2019 Mexican National Team U.S. Tour, which has averaged nearly 52,000 fans per game and has seen the Mexican team post a 4-0 record, all against South American opponents.

The match will also mark the first time Mexico Head Coach Gerardo “Tata” Martino faces his former team Argentina, which he managed from 2014 to 2016. ​

MIES (Switzerland) / LOS ANGELES (USA) – FIBA, the international governing body for basketball, and the Los Angeles Times media group today announced an agreement to bring the annual FIBA 3x3 World Tour Final to Los Angeles from 2020 through 2023.
Following the FIBA 3x3 World Cup, which crowned the United States men and Chinese women on June 23 and set a record for the largest-ever FIBA 3x3 temporary venue on Museumplein in Amsterdam, FIBA announced the partnership which will expand 3x3 in North America.

Ampe is a traditional sport played in Ghana mostly by females with clapping, jumping and counting as the basic features.
It is a very popular game played by especially by young girls and creates a lot of fun and in the end friendship.
Ampe is a game that Ghanaian sports officials, the Ministry of Youth & Sports, National Sports Authority (NSA), Women Sports Association of Ghana (WOSPAG) and the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) want to be recognized internationally, hence would be considered for the first time at the African Games which Ghana hosts in 2023.
According to the LOC of Ghana 2023, it would take the participation of six countries to be selected as one of the disciplines for the Games.
In order for Ghana to present a well selected team, Women Sports Association of Ghana (WOSPAG) in collaboration with One On One Foundation  / Dreamland Sports Plus Company and the Accra Metropolitan are coming up with the Market Sanitation / Ampe Championships to see who is are the best players in Ampe at the Kaneshie Market in Accra on July 20, 2019.

A top-class duel is in prospect in the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON when Germany’s biggest marathon and an IAAF Gold Label race takes place on September 29 with the news that Gladys Cherono, both title and course record holder, will face her fellow Kenyan Vivian Cheruiyot. The duo are among an elite group of world-class women runners who have improved their personal bests to sub-2:19 in the past year in winning high quality races in the Abbott World Marathon Majors (AWMM) series. But they will both have to beware of a dangerous Ethiopian, Mare Dibaba, who has twice run under 2:20 and took the bronze medal in the 2016 Olympic Marathon in Rio.


“We are naturally delighted that we’ll be having the defending champion Gladys Cherono on the start line,” said Race Director Mark Milde and added: “Compared to the men, the women in Berlin have some ground to make up. With three very strong contenders in the line-up, the women’s race on September 29 could be centre stage.” In the past twelve years the men’s race at the BMW BERLIN-MARATHON has produced a string of world class times with six world records into the bargain. The presence of Gladys Cherono and Vivian Cheruiyot suggests that these two Kenyans could headline a show-stealing performance from the elite women in general.

The media landscape has changed dramatically over the last decade. As a result, newsrooms have been forced to make monumental changes such as reducing the staff complement to keep up with the demands, or they have simply had to shut down.


With some African newsrooms being written out of history, there has been an emergence of international media setting up shop on the continent. This interest serves as a double-edged sword for African media that often finds itself under-resourced. 


Nicolas Pompigne-Mognard, the founder and chairman of the APO Group, is of the view that the African media landscape has faced challenges that precede digital migration, which has compounded existing problems. An incident that stands out for him, before the digitizing of media, was a lack of access to information for African reporters, and that propelled him to start one of the foremost media relations firms on the continent.


When he was a journalist for online publication, Gabonews, and the deputy president of the Pan-African Press Organisation in France, between 2005 and 2007, Pompigne-Mognard says this was a recurring problem hampering the productivity of African reporters. 


“If you wanted the right to attend an international press conference, you would need an official card.

• ICC digital and social media channels have delivered more than 1 billion video views so far, on track to becoming one of the biggest sports event on digital
• Hotstar, ICC’s official licensee in India, delivered a record 15.6 million peak concurrent live viewers for the India v Pakistan match - a record for an international cricket fixture
• In the UK Sky Television boast their highest viewing figures for ODI cricket in over a decade

The ICC Men's Cricket World Cup 2019 is on track to shatter previous digital and TV records and become one of the world's biggest ever sports events - having already delivered over 1 billion video views across digital content on ICC’s platforms and social media channels.
In addition, TV figures have seen India alone amass a viewership of 342m during the first fortnight of the tournament even before the much anticipated fixture between India and Pakistan. Hotstar, ICC’s official digital licensee in India, delivered a record 15.6 million peak concurrent live viewers for the India v Pakistan match - a record for an international cricket fixture across formats. The nail-biting India v Afghanistan fixture on Saturday at Southampton also delivered similar peak number of concurrent live viewers for the platform.

Leapfrogging Africa’s innovation agenda with local cloud solutions
Kampala, Tuesday 25 June 2019. Pan-African connectivity provider, BringCom, in partnership with science and technology investor, Imprimatur Capital, and European edge cloud software company, GIG Technology, have together birthed what is to provide the African technology industry with cloud sovereignty – afriQloud.
Today launched in Uganda, afriQloud will provide, at internationally competitive rates, local and foreign customers with an innovative and secure distributed edge cloud service.
Hans van Linschoten, founding partner of Imprimatur Capital Africa and CEO of afriQloud “We see significant potential in the growing African cloud market where an estimated $2 billion is being spent in cloud this year, and we’re excited to bring this service to the continent. By the end of 2019 we will complement the few developed markets clouds with a powerful and local distributed cloud in at least 15 countries. This ensures data sovereignty for institutions and governments within Africa’s shores.”
Most of Africa’s content on the internet is currently hosted on servers outside the continent. Implementation of edge cloud computing services in Africa has been adversely affected by lack of reliable and secure connectivity from various service providers. The cost of setting up ICT infrastructure with improved data latency and minimized downtime has also contributed to the slow adoption of cloud solution across the continent.

The IAAF submitted its response on provisional measures to the Swiss Federal Tribunal (SFT), explaining why its DSD regulations should remain in force during an appeal by a single athlete (the appellant) following a “superprovisional order” issued by the SFT and received by the IAAF on 4 June 2019.
The IAAF has specifically requested:

1. Reversal of the order to the IAAF to super-provisionally suspend the implementation of the DSD Regulations in respect of the appellant.
2. Dismissal of the appellant's application to suspend the implementation of the DSD Regulations in respect of the appellant pending the outcome of the appeal.

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) has welcomed the announcement on the Birmingham 2022 budget by the UK Government as it showcases a significant reduction in Commonwealth Games delivery costs.
 
The announcement confirms that the cost of delivering the Commonwealth Games, and associated public funding, has been managed down whilst investment in long-term infrastructure and capital projects in Birmingham and the West Midlands is being accelerated.
 
The announcement of £778m of public funding comprises contributions towards Games operational costs and additional legacy investments, that have been brought forward for the Games, such as long-term capital infrastructure. The total public investment confirmed for Birmingham is significantly lower than the previous Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast in 2018, which totalled £967m.

The African Volleyball Confederation (CAVB) has sent a congratulatory message to the Ghana Volleyball Association following the achievement of the national beach volleyball team at the Sal 2019 first African Beach Soccer Games in Cape Verde from June 17 to 24, 2019.
The message was in a letter signed by Dr. Amr Elwani, president of CAVB and vice president of FIVB to Paul Atchoe president of the Ghana Volleyball Association read “the victory is due to the Ghana Federation as well as the Men team which granted a huge effort to be prepared for this big challenge. We had particularly noticed the sportive spirit prevailed among the participants in this competition which is really a very big event.

The Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) Coordination Commission is set to visit Birmingham later this week with just over three years to go until the start of the 2022 Commonwealth Games. 

The Coordination Commission (CoCom) is responsible for delivery oversight of the Games. It is tasked with monitoring Games delivery to scope, schedule and budget with a focus on efficiency and effectiveness.
 
The CoCom will be held in Birmingham from 12-13 June. It will be their second visit to the West Midlands to look at preparations for the 2022 Commonwealth Games following the first in December 2018.
 
The CoCom is Chaired by Chris Jenkins, CGF Regional Vice-President for Europe and CEO of Commonwealth Games Wales.

The first Elgon Cup leg is on 22nd June in Kisumu and the return leg in Kampala Uganda on the 13th of July

NAIROBI, Kenya, June 10, 2019/ -- The provisional Kenya Lionesses 15s squad on duty this year has been named and it features a total of 40 ladies.

The ladies have been in session for the last one month preparing for Elgon Cup and the Rugby World Cup Qualifiers in August. As part of their preparation after World Rugby introduced the RWC Qualifiers tournament, the ladies started off with the three week long Aberdeen Shikoyi Franchise where for them to make the cut into the National 15s team, they had to participate in at least two legs.

Head Coach Felix Oloo started off with a 50-player squad which was then narrowed down to 40 after the first week of skills tests. Within the next three weeks, Oloo confirms that the performance has improved massively in the set pieces and in the backline.

More people run than do any other sport on the planet, but a trend towards sedentary lifestyles, particularly among young people, still threatens the health of our communities, IAAF CEO Jon Ridgeon warned in his opening address at the first IAAF Global Running Conference, in Lanzhou, China yesterday.
The three-day conference of 600 attendees, representing 100 IAAF Label races from around the world, is discussing the benefits that mass participation road races bring to host cities, the economic benefits to cities, the health benefits to participants and their demographics, as well as best practices for organising events in environmentally sustainable ways.

Captain of the Black Stars, Andre Ayew has assured Ghanaians the team will do everything possible to end the 37 years Africa Cup of Nations of no cup.
Speaking at the farewell dinner hosted by the President of Ghana, Nana Addo-Dankwah Akuffo-Addo, Ayew introduced his colleague players which did not include general captain Asamoah Gyan and vice-captain Kwadwo Asamoah who will join the team in Dubai
“I will like to say a big you to the team management who have hugely followed us, from the technical team to the big men, the Black Stars management, we have a tough discussion and you asked what we needed, what we wanted and his excellence you did everything possible for us.

Olympic Torchbearer application process and uniforms also revealed to eager public


The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today unveiled the Olympic Torch Relay route over which the symbolic Olympic Flame will be proudly relayed to a huge number of local areas in Japan in the final 121 days culminating in the Olympic Games, igniting enthusiasm across Japan and around the world. Tokyo 2020 also unveiled the torchbearer uniforms, the Tokyo 2020 Torch Relay Background Music and the application guidelines for members of the public eager to participate as inspirational torchbearers in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Torch Relay.

Ghana president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the Black Stars to win the upcoming Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) to honour the nations 'Year of Return' slogan. 
The four-time champions are hoping to end a 37-year wait for a fifth title at the June 21 to July 19 championship in Egypt where they have been drawn against Cameroon, Benin and Guinea-Bissau in Group F. 
The president was speaking at a dinner on Thursday as the team prepared to depart for camping in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday. 
“Teamwork is at the heart of every success. Without it, you cannot succeed in football, and as it is, in every enterprise," President Akufo-Addo stated, as published on the Government of Ghana website.
“Teamwork means all of you have to work for each other. Religious, ethnic and other divisions do not advance teamwork.

The President of the Republic of Ghana, HE Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured the senior national football team, the Black Stars, of the unflinching support of government and the people of Ghana, ahead of their participation in the 2019 edition of the Africa Cup of Nations in Egypt.
According to President Akufo-Addo “it sounds almost unbelievable when we think its 37 years since we last won it, especially since, from 2008 up to 2017 we hold the record of six consecutive semi-final appearances, which requires that we just need one more step to get over the barrier, and I think we are going to do it.”
The President made this known when the players, technical team and management committee members of the Black Stars called on him on Thursday, 30th May, 2019, at Jubilee House, to bid him farewell ahead of their final training tour in the United Arab Emirates and the 2019 AFCON.

MTN always seeks to promote a positive relationship between the brand and the customer by demonstrating unique understanding of customer need. 
At the launch of the MTN Skate Soccer in Kumasi, Mr. Simon Amoh, Senior Manager, General Trade of MTN Ghana said they appreciate the opportunity to make a difference in the lives of unique and creative people.
He said organising the Skate Soccer is one of such exciting ways to help the physically challenged while brightening their lives. 
“The story of these skaters are amazing and typically resonates with MTN’s Leadership and relationship values. We are inspired by the tenacity and strength of these people. More importantly, we hope that with the growth of this sport, other people will be attracted into the teams and it will keep them meaningfully engaged” he expressed,

Tokyo, 31 May 2019 – The Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (Tokyo 2020) today welcomed Yahoo Japan Corporation as a Tokyo 2020 Official Supporter, the third domestic tier of the Tokyo 2020 Sponsorship Programme.
The company has been attributed the category “Internet-based information and navigation services (including: Web/App or internet search engine systems and services, Internet-based navigation and mapping services, Online local directory services and Provision of weather/meteorology and disaster alert information services)”. Its addition brings the total number of Tokyo 2020 domestic partners to 63*, including 15 Gold Partners, 32 Official Partners and 16 Official Supporters (including one Official Supporter which sponsors only the Paralympic Games), all of whom will play vital roles in the successful delivery of the Games.

Odera is currently the Head Coach for Chipu – the Under 20 National Team that recently qualified for the JWRT for the second time

NAIROBI, Kenya, -- With the close of the regular fifteen a side season, the Kenya Rugby Union (www.KRU.co.ke) would like to announce the appointment of a technical team to manage The Simbas for the upcoming 2019 assignments.

Paul Odera comes in as Head Coach. Odera is currently the Head Coach for Chipu – the Under 20 National Team that recently qualified for the JWRT for the second time. First time was in 2009 when Kenya hosted the tournament. He holds a World Rugby Level 3 Coaching Certificate and is also a World Rugby Coach Educator.  He is a teacher at Peponi House Preparatory School.

His technical team shall comprise of Jimmy Mnene (Team Manager), Ben Mahinda (Team Physiotherapist), Edwin Boit (Team Analyst), Michael Owino (Strength and Conditioning Coach) and Albertus Van Buuren (Backs Coach).

Following on from a FIFA inspection visit to Brazil and further discussions with the Local Organising Committee (LOC), FIFA can today confirm that the FIFA U-17 World Cup Brazil 2019 will be played from 26 October until 17 November.
The venues and the full match schedule will be confirmed ahead of the draw, which has been scheduled for 11 July 2019 at the Home of FIFA in Zurich. Media representatives interested in attending the draw can email media@fifa.org. 
“Throughout the past years, Brazil has successfully hosted a variety of competitions, including the FIFA World Cup and the Olympics. We are convinced that Brazil’s event expertise, coupled with the unique football passion of their fans, will contribute to the success of the FIFA U-17 World Cup 2019. We would like to thank the CBF and all Brazilians who have embraced this tournament, demonstrating once more their unique love for the beautiful game,” says FIFA Deputy Secretary General (Football) Zvonimir Boban.