Scott Field, South Africa’s visually impaired swimmer, won his second silver medal of the Athens Paralympics when he finished a strong second in the men’s 400m freestyle at the Aquatic Centre on Monday evening. Field swam four minutes and 30,19 seconds against the 4:28,84 that earned Walter Wu of Canada the gold medal.

Fanie Lombaard, the ”top gun” of South Africa’s team at the Athens Paralympics, arrived on Thursday for his fourth campaign at the Games since his country’s readmission to world sport at Barcelona 1992. Also there is 17-year-old amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius, who is in grade 11 at Pretoria Boys’ High.

South Africa’s Olympic team arrive home from Athens on Tuesday morning carrying mixed emotions after an unforgettable experience in Greece. The 28th Olympiad produced heart-stopping moments of glory for the South Africans who won six medals, the most since the Barcelona Olympics in 1992.

Hendrick Ramaala led a kamikaze pact among South Africa’s marathon men in the Olympic Marathon as the Athens Olympics drew to a dramatic close on Sunday over the route where the marathon was born. National record holder Gert Thys, who ran in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics and Sydney 2000, was the only South African home in 2:16,08 for 16th, with Ramaala and Ian Syster having bailed out on the route from Marathon to Athens.

A billboard outside the Olympic Stadium declares: ”Impossible is Nothing”. Mbulaeni Mulaudzi proved that when he stunned the world’s best 800-metre runners with an incredible silver medal at the Olympic Games in Athens on Saturday night. Hestrie Cloete battled out an intense high jump final to also end with silver.

Alwyn Myburgh struck seventh place as world high-jump champion Hestrie Cloete celebrated her 26th birthday with 800m runners Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and Hezekiel Sepeng as they won their way into Olympic finals on a night of high passion at the Olympic Stadium in Athens on Thursday night.

Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and Hezekiel Sepeng were whip-cracking sharp in their opening 800m rounds of the Athens Olympics at the Olympic Stadium on Wednesday night. Not so happy were pole-vaulter Okkert Brits, 110m hurdler Shaun Bownes and javelin-thrower Sunette Viljoen, who all failed to go through to their following rounds.

Roland Schoeman, the most decorated Olympian in South African history, cleared the air regarding the controversy that has rocked South African swimming after he and his teammates won the gold medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay. Schoeman, Ryk Neethling and Lyndon Ferns addressed a media conference on Thursday.

Tiny Stephanie Sandler is the baby in the South African Olympic team. On Thursday she performed her heart out in rhythmic gymnastics to finish 23rd in the hoops and ball disciplines and ended with a flurry of confidence that bodes well for when she competes in the baton and ribbon events on Friday.

Alwyn Myburgh emerged as the pick of the South African 400m hurdles crop when he edged defending Olympic champion Angelo Taylor and runner-up Hadi soua An Al Somaily out of the Athens Olympic finals in a nail-biting semifinal at the Olympic Stadium on Tuesday night. ”Oh man, I just can’t believe this,” said a jubilant Myburgh.