It was called the Athletic Club but what went on in its basement in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires has no place in a sporting manual. About 1 500 young men and women considered opponents of the military government in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 were tortured and murdered there.
After the announcement of 40 players from whom the 30-man squad for this year’s World Cup campaign will be drawn, Springbok coach Rudolf Straeuli has nowhere left to hide.
Newly crowned 400m world champion Jerome Young won an Olympic gold medal in the relay in Sydney in 2000 despite having tested positive for steroids in 1999, it was reported on Wednesday.
One by one, the generation of American stars who grew up playing junior tennis against each other in the 1980s and collected Grand Slam singles titles together for more than a decade is calling it quits. But Andre Agassi isn’t done yet, not by a long shot.
Chelsea’s expensively assembled side returned to the big time on Tuesday night when they qualified for the Champions League group stage with an emphatic 3-0 win over Slovak champions MSK Zilina.
South Africa will rest Headingley Test man-of-the-match Gary Kirsten for their final three-day fixture against Derbyshire starting in Derby on Thursday. Herschelle Gibbs, Makhaya Ntini and Monde Zondeki will also sit out the match.
Ignoring international law, Britain and the United States opted for the high-risk strategy of regime change to pre-empt a volatile enemy in the Middle East. It was not Iraq, however, that was in the firing line but Iran, and the aftershocks are still being felt.
South Africa’s weaker-than-expected economic growth suggests that the 3,3% forecast for 2003 is out of reach, Razia Khan, chief economist for Africa at the Standard Chartered Bank in London, said on Tuesday.
Paul Kagame’s thumping victory in Rwanda’s presidential poll may be too much of a landslide for his own good, analysts said on Tuesday, urging the Tutsi leader to open up to the mainly Hutu opposition.
Intimidation alleged in Rwanda poll
The Scorpions unit should have gone through with the prosecution of Deputy President Jacob Zuma, Inkatha Freedom Party president and Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Tuesday.