​More than 40 girls from all over the island were present at the Olympic call on the Sparc complex
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, December 9, 2019/ -- As part of its Mauritius2024 Olympic program, Rugby Union Mauritius has launched an Olympic day dedicated to 14-18 year old girls.

More than 40 girls from all over the island were present at the Olympic call on the Sparc complex.

On the program, detection of young talents, meeting with parents and coaches, explanations of the Olympic program, enough to give stars in the eyes to all girls.

A successful first Olympic day where girls from all over the island were able to share the values ​​of Olympism and ovality.

The Ghana Gas, Greater Accra Handball Association (GAHA) wrapped up the 2019 season on a high on Wednesday, December 4, with Ghana Police Women and Ghana Prisons Service Men lifting the maiden edition of Ghana Gas Champion of Champions Trophies at the Burma Camp Handball court.
The climax, which also saw players who have excelled during the year being awarded, had Ghana Police Women facing Ghana Airforce in a repeat or revenge affair after the latter lost the finals of the Ghana Gas knockout.
League champions Police, having won the International Handball GALA to precede the League, triumphed over the Burma Camp favorites, in a cagey encounter which the law enforcers' experience played a major factor.
It was a thrilling true champion of champions duel as Police won 17-16.

Current president of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) Ben Nunoo Mensah has hailed one of his predecessors, Hon. Benson Tongo Baba formerly of the Ghana Prisons Service for his contribution to Ghana Sports.
Speaking at the maiden colloquium on empowering women to take up executive and administrative positions in sports, he praised B. T. Baba for acquiring the land at Amasaman for the GOC, which has become one of their most valuable assets, and promised to continue to develop the site which is now a community park to an international sports facility as required and proposed by the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA).
According to Nunoo Mensah, B. T. Baba is one of the biggest sports icons Ghana has produced after the likes of the late Ohene Djan.
He said Ghana lost a huge opportunity to have a big say in world sports when B. T. Baba’s name was withdraw from the Vice presidential contest of ANOCA after the change of administration at the GOC.

ST PETERSBURG, FL, USA - The WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) announced today the winners of the annual year-end tournament and player awards, as voted on by the player body. In addition, the second annual WTA Coach of the Year award has been announced, selected by members of the WTA Coach Program.

The WTA Tournament of the Year Award winners have received recognition from WTA players due to the excellence of their staff and organization, passionate fans, and wider dedication to the sport and its athletes.

With the SA Rugby Sevens Academy team winning the International Invitational tournament in Dubai, it was understandable that Soyizwapi credited the Springbok Sevens programme as a whole

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 9, 2019/ -- To keep a New Zealand team scoreless in a rugby match is almost impossible; to prevent the All Black Sevens team from scoring in a final even more so.

Yet, that was exactly what the Blitzboks did on Saturday in the final of the Emirates Airlines Dubai Sevens, blanking the current Rugby World Cup Sevens and Commonwealth Games gold medallists in their 15-0 win, a defensive effort which left Springbok Sevens captain Siviwe Soyizwapi 'almost speechless.'

The winger turned 27 on Saturday and received the best birthday present from his team as they delivered a masterclass, handing the captain his very first gold medal in the Dubai Sevens.

​Accra, Ghana: December 11th 2019: Accomplished Ghanaian Business Man and former Pro Rugby Player Herbert Mensah has joined the Africa Sports Ventures Group Board of Directors bringing years of experience in the business and sports sectors to the young and transformative company. 
 
Mr. Mensah is the current President of the Ghana Rugby Football Association who has also served in a variety of high-level capacities in the business and sports sector in Ghana and Africa.

​The Blitzbok forward will not lack any motivation come Friday
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 9, 2019/ -- The HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series – as competitive as it is right now – is all about grabbing that one opportunity and the Springbok Sevens team would love nothing more than doing just that.

That is according to Blitzbok forward Dylan Sage, who will be back at the Cape Town Stadium for the first time in three years when the HSBC Cape Town Sevens kicks off on Friday, 13 December, playing in his 26th tournament for South Africa.

Sage made his Blitzbok debut in 2015, played again in 2016, but missed out in 2017 due to injury and 2018 because of Vodacom Super Rugby commitments.

Mr. Ben Nunoo- Mensah, the President of the Ghana Olympic Committee (GOC) has urged women to take up leadership roles in sports, in order to meet up the 30% requirement in the next administration of GOC.
Women are expected to make up 30% of the next Executive Board of the GOC.
According to Mr. Nunoo-Mensah when women take up leadership positions in the various federations, it would make up the required percentage for the GOC, adding that it would also change their fortunes and that of the International Olympic committee (IOC).
He made this statement at the 2019 Women’s Sports Empowerment Colloquium which was organised by Women’s Sports Association of Ghana (WOSPAG) and was under the theme “Gender advocacy and empowerment through sports.”

Shujaa have been grouped with Ireland, Australia and Samoa

NAIROBI, Kenya, December 9, 2019/ -- Kenya are in Pool D for the second leg of the 2019/2020 HSBC Sevens World Series, the Cape Town Sevens taking place in Cape Town, South Africa from 13th to 15th December 2019.

Shujaa have been grouped with Ireland, Australia and Samoa.

Ghana Rugby also managed to proceed to the Pool Stage of the new Rugby Africa Cup competition by beating Botswana in Ghana

ACCRA, Ghana, December 6, 2019/ -- Ghana Rugby with the support of Societe Generale ended the 2019 year of “Get Into Rugby” (GIR) activities on a high note in Accra when 24 schools took part in a year-end festival at the  Kawukudi Park in Accra, Ghana.

According to the President of Ghana Rugby, Mr Herbert Mensah, 2019 was a very full year that produced many exciting results for the Union including the winning of the Trophy Challenges by both Ghana Rugby’s men’s and women’s sevens teams in South Africa and Tunisia respectively.

The International Cricket Council (ICC) today announced it has extended its global partnership with leading smartphone brand OPPO through until the end of 2023.
OPPO will continue to be the official Mobile Handset and Headset partner of the ICC and all associated ICC events starting with the ICC U19 Cricket World Cup 2020 in South Africa and both the Men’s and Women’s T20 World Cups in Australia next year. The partnership, which began in 2015, will continue to provide OPPO a platform to connect with cricket’s 1.2 billion fans who unite behind their nations at ICC events around the world.

The International Cricket Council has expressed sadness at the passing of former England captain Bob Willis at the age of 70.
In a statement, ICC Chief Executive Manu Sawhney said Willis was one of English cricket’s biggest heroes.

​FNB Stadium in Johannesburg will host the first Test on Saturday 24 July and with a capacity of approximately 88,000 spectators
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 4, 2019/ -- The British & Irish Lions could make history on an eight-game tour of South Africa in 2021, with Warren Gatland’s side set to play in front of the largest-ever crowd for a Lions Test since the game turned professional, after the itinerary was jointly announced on Wednesday.

The hotly-anticipated tour will span the length and breadth of South Africa, visiting some of the most impressive stadiums in world sport and culminating in three Test matches against the newly-crowned Rugby World Cup champions, the Springboks.

FNB Stadium in Johannesburg will host the first Test on Saturday 24 July and with a capacity of approximately 88,000 spectators, a sell-out crowd would be higher than the 84,188 who witnessed the series decider against the Wallabies in Sydney in 2001.

​Six players in Delport’s squad of 13 will make their World Series debuts next weekend.
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 4, 2019/ -- Zintle Mpupha will captain the Springbok Women’s Sevens team at next weekend’s HSBC Cape Town Sevens tournament, while Zenay Jordaan, South Africa’s most experienced player in the HSBC World Rugby Women’s Sevens Series, will pull the strings for the Imbokodo as playmaker.

Imbokodo coach Paul Delport, Mpupha and Jordaan joined forces in the Commonwealth Games and Rugby World Cup Sevens last year, but playing in front of their home fans at the Cape Town Stadium for the very first time will be a personal highlight for the trio and the rest of the.

Nadine Roos, Christelene Steinhobel, Mathrin Simmers and Eloise Webb also did the double with their coach, captain and playmaker in 2018, while Buhle Sonomzi joined them for the trip to San Francisco last year. However, six players in Delport’s squad of 13 will make their World Series debuts next weekend.

NEW YORK (Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2019) – MLS Commissioner Don Garber announced today that Toronto FC forward Jozy Altidore has been issued an undisclosed fine for his postgame comments regarding the officiating during Toronto’s MLS Cup match against Seattle Sounders FC on Nov. 10. These comments are in violation of the league’s public criticism policy.

The MLS Commissioner announced today that Vancouver Whitecaps FC head coach Marc Dos Santos has been issued an undisclosed fine for his comments regarding the league during an interview published on Nov. 4. His comments are in violation of the league’s public criticism policy.

The Ghana blind Goalball team both male and female will face Nigeria, Cote D’Ivoire and South Africa in a four-nation international Goalball tournament from 12-16 December 2019 at the University of Cape Coast Sports Hall.
The Goalball team will use the four-nation tournament to prepare for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics games qualifiers to be held in a yet to be named African country after the original host Morocco pulled out as host.

Lausanne, Switzerland, December 4, 2019 - International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Dr. Thomas Bach today praised the International Volleyball Federation (FIVB) for its commitment to pioneering innovation across all areas of volleyball at a historic joint meeting in the new Olympic House.

The meeting was the first to be held between the IOC Executive Board and the FIVB Executive Committee, and volleyball also became the first International Federation to hold a joint meeting with the IOC at their new headquarters, which was officially opened in June, 2019.

​RugbyX is a fantastic development tool integrated since September by four federations currently (Australia, England, Ireland, New Zealand)
PORT LOUIS, Mauritius, December 4, 2019/ -- As part of its Mauritius2024 Olympic program, Rugby Union Mauritius (http://www.Mauritius.Rugby/) is developing different forms of rugby to reach a maximum of players on the island including RugbyX, new rugby version launched by World Rugby in 2019.

RugbyX is a fantastic development tool integrated since September by four federations currently (Australia, England, Ireland, New Zealand) in various school programs, high performance and development.

Mauritius, being the 5th, follows the example of these federations by integrating RugbyX in its development program, particularly with its young people but also in the school environment for 2020.

Kok missed a large chunk of the Springbok Sevens pre-season after being allowed by Blitzbok coach Neil Powell to join French powerhouse club, Toulouse, on a short-term loan

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 4, 2019/ -- He is a former World Rugby Sevens Player of the Year, a two-time HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series winner, played in 47 tournaments and scored 106 tries for the Blitzboks. And still Werner Kok sees playing for the SA Rugby Sevens Academy side in Dubai this weekend as a step forward.

Kok missed a large chunk of the Springbok Sevens pre-season after being allowed by Blitzbok coach Neil Powell to join French powerhouse club, Toulouse, on a short-term loan and, consequently, is “restarting” his sevens career in the Academy side as they play for the Emirates Airline Dubai Sevens International Invitational Trophy.

The 26-year-old has no issues playing away from the TV cameras and on the outer fields in Dubai this time around. In fact, says Kok, this is just what he needs.

The team overturned a halftime deficit of 18-14 to win their first match at the Shevardeni Rugby Stadium in the country’s capital, Tbilisi
CAPE TOWN, South Africa, December 4, 2019/ -- Junior Springbok assistant coach, Bafana Nhleko – who is serving in the same capacity on the SA Under-19 team’s tour to Georgia – looked back at the positives from their 28-21 victory against the hosts on Monday, and singled out a few areas to work on ahead of their second and final tour match on Thursday.

The team overturned a halftime deficit of 18-14 to win their first match at the Shevardeni Rugby Stadium in the country’s capital, Tbilisi.

After reviewing the match on Tuesday morning, Nhleko said: “With such short preparation time and the testing playing conditions, the players did well to try to stick to the game plan. They adapted particularly well to the defensive breakdown interpretation, especially after conceding a few penalties in the first half.

The International Boxing Federation's (IBF) Inter-Continental super bantamweight championship fight between holder, Lodumo Lamati, and Ghana’s Wasiru ‘Gyatabi’ Mohammed has been postponed to March 8 in South Africa.
Lamatu, an undefeated fighter in 16 bouts, was billed to defend his crown against the Ghanaian World Boxing Organisation (WBO) Global super bantamweight titleholder on Sunday but was cancelled due to logistical inefficiencies
Disclosing the news to Graphic Sports Online, Yoofi Boham, a technical advisor to Wasiru, noted that they were supposed to arrive in South Africa on Wednesday for the fight on Sunday but had a message from the promoters indicating that the fight has been called off.

Popular Ghana boxer, Braimah Kamoko aka Bukom Banku will make a return to the Bukom Boxing Arena for the first time since he was beaten by Bastie Samir in the biggest fight ever stage in Ghana in recent times.
Bukom Banku headlines a super fight show powered by Monarch Events and Promotions in Accra on 21 December at the Bukom Boxing Arena dubbed ‘King of the Ring 2’.
Bukom Banku who now holds the WBU Cruiser weight title and would be defending in the USA has stepped up his training and preparing to win back his fans in Accra.

The newly constituted National Women’s League Committee held its first meeting at the GFA Secretariat on Tuesday 3 December.
The Committee’s maiden meeting was to bring all the board members up to speed with plans to restart the women’s competitions across the country and to discuss strategies geared towards improving all female club competitions.
Committee chairperson Madam Hillary Boateng and vice  chairperson Rosalind Amoh were all present at Tuesday’s meeting with members Nana Fosu Gyeabour II, Cleopatra Nsia Nketiah, Nana Aba Anamoah, Jerry Dugbatse and Christian Mensah all in attendance.

Veteran Ghanaian striker Asamoah Gyan was in action earlier today when his NorthEast United side drew 1-1 with Jamshedpur in the Indian Super League (ISL).
The 34-year old has enjoyed a very good start to the 2019/2020 ISL campaign and was handed a deserved starting role.
In a match week 6 fixture played at the JRD Tata Sports Complex, Jamshedpur who played as the home side took the lead on the 24th minute through an effort from Sergio Castel.

Ghanaian football coach Moses Cofie who made history after leading young Burkina Faso side, Rahimo FC to win the FA Cup in addition to the Premier League title has returned home.
He helped Rahimo to lift their second cup after winning the first trophy since joining the premiership three seasons ago – and the feat was celebrated wildly around the city of Bobo-Dioulasso – where the club is based.
“Having won the league and the FA Cup in Burkina Faso, I can say it’s not easy, but everything is possible. I now want to train Ghanaian clubs and take them to Africa” he expressed.
Cofie is a former player of Accra Great Olympics, Accra Hearts of Oak and Liberty Professionals who had a successful coaching career in Sudan, Burkina Faso and Ghana.