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Caster Semenya became only the third female athlete to win the 800-1500m double gold at the Commonwealth Games, racing to victory in her specialist two-lap event on Friday in a time of 1:56.68.

Eight Cameroonian athletes have gone missing from their accommodation at the Commonwealth Games in Australia, team officials have confirmed.

Caster Semenya raced to her first major 1500m title, smashing Zola Budd’s 34-year-old national record at the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games on Tuesday afternoon.

Akani Simbine won South Africa’s first ever 100m gold medal at the Commonwealth Games, with Henricho Bruintjies finishing behind him for an incredible 1-2 podium finish.

Tunisia international forward Youssef Msakni will miss the World Cup after being ruled out for six months with a knee injury.

Police in Canada have confirmed that 14 people were killed when a lorry and a bus carrying a junior ice hockey team collided on Friday evening.

Cristiano Ronaldo scored one of the Champions League's great goals as his incredible bicycle kick helped Real Madrid demolish Juventus in the quarter-final first leg.

From triathlete Lauren Parker, paralysed less than 12 months ago, to swimmer Chad le Clos, aiming to become the most decorated male Commonwealths competitor of all time, there are compelling stories to follow among the global names competing on the Gold Coast.

The South African Football Association (Safa) has come out in support of its president Danny Jordaan over a charge of rape made against him.

Lazio have reportedly fallen for an email scam and paid two million euros ($2.4m) of the final instalment for defender Stefan de Vrij’s transfer from Dutch club Feyenoord to fraudsters.