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- SA set for Olympic overhaul
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Funding and selection models for Olympic sporting codes are set to change in preparation for London 2012, the Mail & Guardian has been told.
- Usain Bolt: A runaway success
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This time he remembered to do his shoelaces up. This time he ran hard all the way to the finish, looking neither right nor left.
- Give women a sporting chance
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The Beijing Olympics are exposing viewers to the talent of Marta Vieira da Silva, a 22-year-old Brazilian who believes she was born to play football.
- Olympics: It's about losing too
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The message to a distraught Chinese public, still reeling from withdrawal of the nation's biggest sporting hero, could not have been clearer.
- Can Ramaala up the pace?
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SA marathon champions Hendrick Ramaala and Norman Dlomo hit the road on Sunday, hoping to emulate compatriot Josiah Thugwane, the 1996 gold medallist.
- Will the doper's dream be the end of elite sport?
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The road to Beijing was rocky but, once the Games kicked off, attention swung from protester to athlete.
- Olympic pride burns fiercely in Africa
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Finishing last at the Olympics is as big a triumph as winning medals for many athletes from Africa.
- Phelps, Bolt electrify Beijing, China charges to top
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Michael Phelps and Usain Bolt electrified the Beijing Olympics, securing their places in Games' lore over 17 days of competition.
- Mokoena: I was disciplined, dedicated and focused
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There are two Khotso Mokoenas -- psyched up and looking meaner than a pit bull on the track, and the man who likes to hang out alone in his room.
- Usain Bolt: Sit back and enjoy the phenomenon
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As Beijing empties, those of us left behind have time to dwell on some of the great moments in sporting history that we have witnessed.
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