Sifan Hassan is thinking about trying to emulate the legendary achievement of Emil Zatopek and go for gold in the women’s 5,000m, 10,000m and marathon at next year’s Olympics, reports on Tuesday said.
Just as well that there were no spectators in the Tokyo Stadium when Wayde van Niekerk ran in his 400m semi-final. Because the experience was painful enough and the Olympic champion and world record holder didn’t need a capacity 50 000 people watching him crash out of the Games in the manner that he did. (more…)
The swimmers have finished competing at the Tokyo Olympics. This is how Team SA fared across the codes on Saturday. (more…)
Tatjana Schoenmaker triumphed in the greatest women’s 200m breaststroke race of all time. On the biggest stage. In world record time. It doesn’t get better than that. (more…)
Tatjana Schoenmaker and Kaylene Corbett both won their women’s 200m breaststroke semi-finals, in 2:19.33 and 2:22.08, respectively. They are first and fourth fastest heading into Friday’s final. (more…)
South Africa’s journey at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics came to an end after suffering a 3-0 defeat by Mexico in their final Group A clash at Sapporo Dome on Wednesday afternoon. (more…)
What became a grey day after inclement weather rolled into Japan turned out to have a silver lining for Team SA at the 20202 Tokyo Olympics. Two silver linings, in fact, as Tatjana Schoenmaker and Bianca Buitendag opened the country’s medals tally. (more…)
South Africa head coach David Notoane says they will play for pride when they take on Mexico in their final Group A encounter at the Tokyo Olympic Games on Wednesday. (more…)
It was a challenging opening day for Team SA at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics on Saturday. (more…)
Mexico began their Olympic campaign in style with a 4-1 win over France, while South Africa conceded a narrow 1-0 defeat to hosts Japan in their opening Group A encounters on Thursday afternoon. (more…)