Virtus has announced that the prestigious seventh edition of the 2027 Global Games will be hosted in Cairo, the capital of Egypt. This marks a significant milestone as we prepare to welcome thousands of athletes from around the world to this international multi-sport event.

The 13th African Games in Accra has ended on a historical feat by Egypt winning a record-breaking of 102 gold medals to emerge as the top nation in the competition for the third time in a row and the fourth time in the last five editions of the continental Games.

The Accra 2023 African Games in Ghana came to a successful close on Saturday. Egypt were the biggest winners with 191 medals, 102 of them gold, but Ghana's performance in the team sports was also very impressive.

The 13th edition of the African Games will end this Saturday after 20 days of competition in Accra, with Egypt trying to reach an astonishing milestone: 100 gold medals.

Egypt has been the dominant force in the African Games throughout the history of the competition. In this year’s event, hosted in Ghana, could reach a historic achievement by getting 100 gold medals in just one Games.

The African Games Accra 2023 beach volleyball champions are Egypt and Morocco. Egypt retained their women's title from the previous edition in Rabat in 2019. Morocco upgraded their silver medal to gold to become the men's champions.

Egypt is the clear medal leader after eight days of competition. The country has won a total of 144 medals (83 gold, 33 silver and 28 bronze) as of Saturday 16 March. Nigeria is in second place with 68 medals: 25 gold, 18 silver and 25 bronze. More than 5,000 athletes from 51 countries are competing for medals and records in 30 sports at this year's event.

The 13th edition of the African Games will end next Sunday, 23 March, with an absolute domination by Egyptian athletes, who top the medals table with 76 gold medals.

Egypt dominated chess at the 13th African Games in Ghana. Bassem Amin led the way with four gold medals, two of them with Wafa Shahenda in the Blitz Mixed Team and Rapid Mixed Team events, taking the country's total gold medal tally to five out of six (Algeria's Lina Nassr won in the Blitz Women's Individual event).

Egyptian swimmers are leading the medals table, but South Africa is the country with the most medals after three days of competition at the 13th African Games in Accra. The four athletes with the most medals of the entire event are swimmers.

The most exciting EHF European Championship came to an end this Sunday in Germany with an emotional 33-31 (26-26) overtime victory for France over Denmark, who won the title for the fourth time, one less than leaders Sweden.

The Egyptian Olympic Committee has officially dismissed Hisham Hatab as president of the committee during an extraordinary general assembly.

Egypt’s Abdalla Abdelaziz broke Hungarian hearts with a dramatic victory over home favourite Gábor Hárspataki on a pulsating day of competition at the Karate World Championships here.

Japan have carved out the chance of completing a women’s kata and kumite team double here after another successful day at the Karate World Championships.

Egypt won half of the Greco-Roman gold medals on offer today at the 2023 World Combat Games in Riyadh.