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 captain of the Spar South African hockey team competed in her first Games and got a taste of what the Olympics was all about.
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/ 26 February 2008
The South African women’s hockey team annihilated Russia 6-0 in the opening match of the Spar Tri-Nations at the Randburg Sports Complex on Monday, courtesy of a Cindy Brown hat-trick. The South Africans are fresh off the back of a training camp and a three-match series played against Canada last week — which they won 2-0.