Usain Bolt, the fastest man on Earth

Jamaica's Usain Bolt won the men's Olympic 100m in stunning style on Saturday, obliterating his own world record in 9,69 seconds.

Another gold for Phelps in Beijing

Michael Phelps won a record-equalling seventh Olympic gold medal in Beijing, ahead of Saturday's showpiece, the athletics' men's 100m final.

Kirsty Coventry: Africa's best

Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry has not only given her politically beleaguered country something to smile about.

Giving it stick

When Marsha Marescia arrives in Beijing in a few months' time and checks into the Olympic village, it will be a very different experience to what it was four years ago. Back then the captain of the Spar South African hockey team competed in her first Games and got a taste of what the Olympics was all about.

SA swimmers record fast times in Manchester

South African swim stars Cameron van der Burgh and Gerhard Zandberg joined Shaun Harris and Lize Mari Retief in a morning of fast times at the Fina World Short-Course Championships in Manchester on Saturday. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry broke her third world record of the week.

Records tumble at short-course swimming meet

Croatia's Duje Draganja edged out home favourite Mark Foster to smash the world 50m freestyle best as records tumbled at the world short-course swimming championships in Manchester on Friday. Zimbabwe's Kirsty Coventry took the individual honours with her third title of the meet.

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