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Split-second loss: Italy’s Lamont Marcell Jacobs (right) crosses the finish line to win ahead of the US’s Fred Kerley (left), who came second, while Akani Simbine ended fourth in the men’s 100m final during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.
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Bliss and brutality on the Tokyo track

South African sprinters are exciting prospects in an exhilarating new era, and they are young enough to be hitting their strides now

South Africa’s Wayde van Niekerk (R) competes in the Men’s 400m Final during the athletics event at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the Olympic Stadium in Rio de Janeiro on August 14, 2016.   (AFP / Fabrice COFFRINI )

Tokyo Olympics: Your guide to Team SA

South Africa will be hoping to build on an impressive Rio, but face a number of challenges

Akani Simbine had envisaged this being the year he finally came good.

Akani Simbine’s Olympic dream deferred, not derailed

The sprinter has to wait a year longer to realise his dream of winning gold in Tokyo to make up for narrowly missing out on the podium in Doha

So close

ASA and athletes view Doha disaster differently

Wanted: A single hymn sheet from which Athletics South Africa and its athletes can sing to improve their medal haul at the upcoming Olympics in Tokyo

Gold medalist Akani Simbine silver medalist Henricho Bruintjies.

Simbine, Bruintjies stun Jamaican star to finish 1-2 in 100m

South African sprint star Akani Simbine has won the gold medal in the final of the men’s 100m at the Commonwealth Games on Australia’s Gold Coast.

Van Niekerk became world champion in 2015 and retained the title two years ago before hurting his knee. (AFP)

Team SA has come out of nowhere to demand the world’s attention

We have discovered that we can be among the best

Athletic records set to be smashed

Expectations are high that local athletes will raise the bar at the SA championships this weekend.

Five South Africans progress in Commonwealth Games

Five South African athletes advanced to the next rounds of their respective events in track and field at the Glasgow Commonwealth Games.