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/ 2 September 2007
Young Boland javelin thrower Robert Oosthuizen will have the time of his life in Sunday’s javelin final at the 11th World Athletics Championships in Osaka. It took only two throws for the 20-year-old to secure a place alongside the big guns he used to watch on television with his father.
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/ 2 September 2007
Tyson Gay joined an exclusive club on Saturday in Osaka, Japan, by becoming only the third man ever to win three gold medals at a single world championships, overshadowing Meseret Defar’s 5 000m victory. Only fellow Americans Carl Lewis (1983 and 1987) and Maurice Greene (1999) have achieved the feat before.
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/ 2 September 2007
The Blue Bulls look on course to fight until the end for a home semifinal berth after they ran over Griquas 46-3 in their Currie Cup encounter at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria on Saturday afternoon. In Cape Town, Western Province kept their Currie Cup semifinal hopes alive when they thrashed the Boland Cavaliers 62-10 at Newlands.
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/ 2 September 2007
A clinical, workmanlike Black Leopards mauled and ultimately devoured Platinum Stars while winning a one-sided Premier Soccer League game 2-0 at a largely deserted Giyani Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Goals from the industrious Myron Shongwe in the 30th minute and David Makgale in the 61st minute added to Stars’ discomfort.
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/ 2 September 2007
Andrew Hall, the leading South African wicket-taker at the World Cup this year, has joined the rebel Indian Cricket League. Hall snatched 14 wickets at the World Cup in the West Indies, including five in the victory over England that clinched a semifinals slot for the Proteas.
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/ 2 September 2007
Liverpool brandished their credentials as potential English Premiership champions with a 6-0 demolition of Derby on Saturday as champions Manchester United continued to recover from their slow start to the season. The pressure on Tottenham boss Martin Jol increased after his side drew in a six-goal thriller at Fulham.
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/ 2 September 2007
Golden Arrows striker Norman Smith was on target on Saturday night when he scored a brace for his Lamontville-based team, ensuring a 2-1 win over Amazulu in a Premier Soccer League game played in Durban. The score was 0-0 at half-time. Smith opened the scoring in the 62nd minute of the game.
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/ 2 September 2007
World number one Roger Federer answered the threat of big-serving United States giant John Isner to join top challengers Andy Roddick, Nikolay Davydenko and James Blake in the US Open fourth round on Saturday. Federer is trying for a 12th grand-slam crown and fourth US Open title in a row.
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/ 2 September 2007
Residents on Aruba stocked up on groceries, flashlights and plywood to board up windows and doors ahead of Hurricane Felix, which was forecast to pass just north of the Dutch Caribbean island on Sunday morning. Along the Pacific coast of Mexico, meanwhile, Tropical Storm Henriette moved out to sea after leaving six dead.
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/ 2 September 2007
The South African National Editors’ Forum will seek a meeting with the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) over a letter announcing that the broadcaster had broken ties with the forum, apparently over its stance regarding the publication of Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang’s medical records.