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Despite falling from grace after a positive dope test, the desire for success has not diminished for the country’s first ever Olympic medallist
The South African swimmer went through a dip in performance last year after a traumatic experience left him struggling mentally.
The Botswana middle-distance runner suffered an injury in qualifiers and could not make a podium finish in the finals. Though gutted, he is hard at work again and hopes to do…
We have discovered that we can be among the best
Gideon Sam is a man with a plan for Team South Africa to achieve greater Olympic glory in Rio 2016, writes Karien Jonckheere.
Olympic champion Cameron van der Burgh talks candidly about the immense pressure he felt ahead of his race, and how listening to John Mayer helped.
First time bushwhacker Monako Dibetle goes in search of the ultimate safari adventure and guiltily takes to colonial comfort.
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.
He’s only 20 years old, but Jean Basson has shown clear signs of greater things to come, finishing just outside of the medals at his first Games.
All is not lost yet, but there is a fair bit of panic in some SA circles as, after almost a week in Beijing, the country is yet to win a medal.
Teams will soon line up for the event in which South Africa won their sole gold medal of the previous Olympics — the 4x100m freestyle relay.
Karien Jonckheere looks at South African swimmers at the Olympics and their medal hopes.
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 Under-19 Cricket World Cup hasn’t been a particularly happy hunting ground for South Africa in the past — they lost to those irksome Nepalese in the plate final of the last…
It was Nobel laureate Niels Bohr who once said: ”It is very difficult to make an accurate prediction, especially about the future.” Nothing like a quantum mechanics expert to…
While there was disappointment all round with the sixth place at the Netball World Championships last week, there were those in South African netball circles who were breathing a…
South Africa’s hopes of taking a step up in the netball world came to an abrupt end when they succumbed 82-23 to defending champions New Zealand in Thursday night’s quarterfinal…
If national coach Burta de Kock had been allowed four years to develop and nurture a squad, as Jake White was, it would be a different South African team taking to the court at…
With all the hype and hoopla surrounding the Springboks on their return to South Africa, combined with the subsequent successes of both our football and cricket teams, it’s been…
The celebrations have come to an end and the medals are safely packed away. And, having returned from Melbourne after what is being hailed as the most successful performance by a…
