With just four months to go before the Beijing Olympics only eight South African track and field athletes have achieved qualifying times. Athletics South Africa says there is nothing to worry about. This is despite the fact that South Africa won no medals at the last two International Association of Athletics Federations world championships in Finland and Japan.
Running on a track filled with stones, while simultaneously ducking footballs and learner drivers, are some of the daily challenges the sensational middle-distance runners, Lebogang and Lebo Phalula, face in their bid for the 2008 Beijing Olympics this August.