The mother of South Africa’s athletics star, who was also once a champion, believes he has a big chance of winning gold at this year’s Olympics
South Africa’s only medallist at the 2008 Beijing Games is desperate to improve on his performance from four years ago.
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/ 18 October 2008
The most celebrated woman in Kenya is not a politician, nor a pop star. She is a humble 18-year-old with a devastating sprint.
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/ 22 September 2008
SA hockey is set to take some positive steps towards strengthening the game in the wake of the poor results achieved at the Beijing Olympics.
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/ 5 September 2008
The Beijing Olympics has had an unexpected side effect, which is being felt locally in the form of serious shortages of generic medicines.
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/ 4 September 2008
There were ”shortcomings” in the way SA prepared its athletes for the 2008 Olympic Games, government spokesperson Themba Maseko said on Thursday.
As Beijing empties, those of us left behind have time to dwell on some of the great moments in sporting history that we have witnessed.
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.
South Africa’s dismal performance at the Olympic Games highlighted the need for more funding, the country’s Olympic committee said on Tuesday.
The Beijing Olympics, played out against a background of political intrigue and featuring 16 days of compelling and controversial action.
Jamaica won the men’s 4x100m Olympic title on Friday in a new world record time of 37,10 seconds.
The road to Beijing was rocky but, once the Games kicked off, attention swung from protester to athlete.
SA marathon champions Hendrick Ramaala and Norman Dlomo hit the road on Sunday, hoping to emulate compatriot Josiah Thugwane, the 1996 gold medallist.
This time he remembered to do his shoelaces up. This time he ran hard all the way to the finish, looking neither right nor left.
Zhao Xiaojun may not have won a gold medal, but the Shanghai architect who helped create the iconic Water Cube is already reaping the rewards.
Chinese authorities have sentenced two women in their 70s to a year’s ”re-education through labour” following their application to hold a protest.
Ukraine’s Olympic heptathlon silver medallist Liudmyla Blonska has failed a drugs test, the IOC confirmed on Wednesday.
Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva has taken the art of flirting with the crowd to new heights. Others have simply taken their clothes off.
Claims of questionable officiating and even cheating flared on Wednesday with the Olympic shooting and boxing competitions coming under fire.
The girl who starred at the Olympic opening ceremony was only on stage because the real singer was not considered attractive enough, it was revealed.
US swimmer Michael Phelps carved his name among Olympic greats on Tuesday, winning a record-equalling ninth gold on a dominant morning for Americans.
American swimmer Michael Phelps needed a little help from his friends to pip France in the relay on Monday and keep alive his dream of eight golds.
A study has found choosing the colour red for a uniform in competitive sports can affect the referee’s split-second decision-making ability.
A crash landing off the asymmetric bars by He Kexin failed to stop China from upstaging an injury-hit United States team at the Olympics on Sunday.
China leapt and twisted to gold in the women’s synchronised three metre springboard on Sunday, claiming the first diving medals.
Zimbabwe’s Kirsty Coventry, who won silver in the Olympic 400m individual medley on Sunday, said she would never compete for another country.
From the nation which brought you the 12 000km Long March in 1934, you would anticipate nothing less than a spectacle.
The hopes of strife-torn Sudan for an elusive Olympic medal lie squarely on the teenaged shoulders of 800m runner Abubaker Kaki Khamis.
Resurgent China opened the Olympics on Friday with a burst of fireworks at a spectacular ceremony that celebrated ancient Chinese history.
Nepali police detained hundreds of angry Tibetan refugees who tried to storm a Chinese consular office in Kathmandu on Friday.
These are the first Olympic Games in which anticipation of the athletes’ feats has been overshadowed by speculation about the nature of the event.
Football is in danger of losing its prominent position at the Olympics after a ruling allowing clubs to deny them a place at the Games.