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This month’s Harmony Prison Run at Pretoria Central prison provided a rare glimpse into prison life, with athletes wearing hand-sewn shorts and drab green vests, sporting…
The one-time favourite son of South African athletics, Hezekiel Sepeng, has been excluded from the national team for the world championships, signalling that the curtain may be…
Could the ultra-marathon – and for that matter the standard marathon, the long-standing backbone of South African road running and the life blood of Athletics South Africa – be…
This warning may come a tad late for paddlers taking part in the two-day Fish River Canoe Marathon, which kicks off at the Grassridge dam on Friday, but elephants have been…
There are two kinds of people in this world, according to the hit movie My Big Fat Greek Wedding: there are Greeks and those who wish they were Greek. The bad news is neither…
The transition from conservative Zurich to easy-going Athens was great, the difference between Swiss chocolate and ouzo. The week leading up to the start of the Olympic Games,…
With only one week to go before the ”greatest sports show on Earth” gets under way in Athens, the South African team looks in good shape. A medals haul higher than the current…
If any of the 150-strong South African Olympic team take to the competition halls, pools and fields in Athens feeling they are on their own, they obviously have not met their…
Is the Comrades Marathon a sleeping dragon or a dinosaur, trying to find somewhere comfortable to die? The latter would seem to be where the betting money is going, with the news…
Three strikes and you are out, cried Athletics South Africa CEO Banele Sindani, as Atlanta Olympics silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng was unceremoniously shown the door for…
Cape Town may be on the edge of the planet as far as the rest of South Africa is concerned, but this is ridiculous – 35 000 cyclists will make their way around the fairest Cape…
At least two top Comrades athletes will be breathing a sigh of relief with the news that the blood samples taken at this year’s race have been destroyed and will not be further…
With just a couple of days remaining of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) World Championships in Paris, South Africa’s final medal tally is assuming a…
The Sandton mink and manure belt will be alive with the sounds of popping champagne corks, scraping caviar dishes and the pounding of horses’ hooves when the second BMW…
South African athletes have a good chance of achieving their best medal haul at the World Championships in Paris. Who are these athletes who could make our wildest dreams come…
The gloves are off in the scrap between Athletics South Africa (ASA) and the National Olympic Committee over athletics funding. ASA CEO Banele Sindani announced the governing…
When Athletics South Africa (ASA) announced the team that will be competing in the IAAF World Championships in Paris from 23 to 31 August, the press release pronounced the…
With only three weeks to go before the World Athletic Championships in Paris, the national governing body, Athletics South Africa (ASA), found itself in a “damned if you do,…
After all the slanging that has gone backwards and forwards between the top professional teams, the organisers, promoters and the athletes, Monday’s Comrades Marathon marks a new…
