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The Cameroon Football Federation (Fecafoot) will not renew coach Rigobert Song's contract, which expired on Wednesday, ending his two year stay at the helm, officials confirmed.

2024 will be a eventful year for track and field. The World Athletics Indoor Championships kicks off the calender this weekend in Glasgow, then the Olympic games will take place this summer. For years, Kenyans have swept the long-distance running competitions.

Liverpool win the League Cup by beating Chelsea 1-0 through a late extra-time goal from captain Virgil van Dijk after a fierce end-to-end battle at Wembley.

The Al Ula event saw individual men and women, as well as teams of up to four, spend 8 hours running, jumping, climbing, crawling, and swinging over a trail in the middle of the desert. British athlete Jon Albon took the men's individual honors with Australian Ryan Atkins finishing second and American Mark Batres third.

While emphasizing that the fencers would still need to make the US team on merit, sports bodies in the country have given Lokhanov and the Bidas their backing.

Former Barcelona and Brazil soccer player Dani Alves has been found guilty of raping a woman in a nightclub. The 40-year-old was sentenced to four and a half years in prison and ordered to pay €150,000 to the victim by a court in Spain.

The inaugural CONCACAF W Gold Cup gets underway this week in the USA. The hosts are the favorites but are at the start of a rebuilding period, opening the door for other North, South and Central American sides.

Since the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in 2021, woman's rights have been subject to far-reaching suppression, including a ban on female participation in sport. While some female athletes continue to bravely practice their sport inside the country, many others have fled.

Soccer fans in Ghana took to the streets in Accra on Wednesday to voice their frustrations following the disappointing performance of the national team in the recent Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON).

President Bola Tinubu has awarded the Super Eagles team the Member of the Order of the Niger(MON) national honour for their impressive display at the just concluded AFCON 2023 tournament held in Ivory Coast.

Kenyan marathon world record holder Kelvin Kiptum dies in road accident. The men's marathon world record holder, Kenya's Kelvin Kiptum, 24, has died in a road accident in his home country. He was killed alongside his coach, Rwanda's Gervais Hakizimana, in a car on a road in western Kenya on Sunday.

The 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo was a festival of joy, unity and sport. Seven years later, the eyes of the world were on the Bosnian capital again as war broke out in Yugoslavia and the country began to break up. The joy and excitement were palpable in Sarajevo on Wednesday, February 8, 1984.