By Omar Allen Real Madrid is set to challenge Manchester United for the signature of Valencia star David Silva. Reports are claiming that Madrid are ready to make a £22m bid on the Spanish international before the start of the World Cup to fend off competition from the English champions. Sir Alex Ferguson has reportedly been tracking the 24-year-old winger for more than a year and has... 

Rio de Janeiro’s successful campaign to host the 2016 Olympics should encourage an African city to bid for the 2020 Games, Frankie Fredericks (pictured) said here today. The International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) decision to award the Games to a city in South America for the first time in its 113-year history leaves Africa as the last continent not to have staged the event. “The...