Friday, March 29, 2024

Olympics

Olympics Special – African athletes to watch at the Tokyo Olympics

As the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympic Games gather steam, African countries are looking to bag more gold, silver and bronze medals - in a wider selection of sports - than ever before. Here are some athletes to watch. Seth Onyango,...

A family’s dream rests on “Black Bombers” Olympic fortunes

When the Ghanaian boxing team, “The Black Bombers” take on their opponents at this year's Olympics in Japan, a lot of the pressure will be on light heavyweight slugger, Shakur Samed, 22, who is out to fulfil a long-standing...

Olympics Special – Nigeria’s first woman track & field gold medalist

Chioma Ajunwa was the first black African woman to win an Olympic gold medal in a field event. She didn't understand the significance until she was swamped by a crowd during a stopover in Senegal, on the way home. By Humphrey...

Olympics Special: Irvette Van Zyl’s remarkable comeback

By Stephen Granger In May 2020, three-time Soweto Marathon and SPAR Grand Prix 10km series winner, Irvette Van Zyl, chose to go under the knife to relieve the nagging knee pain she had experienced ever since a scooter accident as...

Olympics Special – Elroy Gelant on chasing that medal with the “lion pack”

By Stephen Granger Elroy Gelant faces one of the biggest tests of his athletics career in Japan in three weeks’ time when he lines up at the start of the Olympic Marathon in Sapporo, 800km north of the Olympic City...

Olympics Special – Stephen Mokoka’s mission in Sapporo

Stephen Mokoka feeds of the support from an activation station en route to winning the 2018 Cape Town Marathon. Photo: Stephen Granger South African distance running supremo, Stephen Lesego Mokoka, is a man on an extraordinary mission: to follow in...

South Africans mount “best ever” Olympics marathon campaign

by Stephen Granger Five athletes in the South African Olympic squad will be heading to the island of Hokkaido and the city of Sapporo, 800 km north of Japan’s capital and Olympic hub Tokyo, to take part in the women’s...

Langa Marathon Challenge offers an Olympic qualifying “time for Africa”

Elroy Galant tracks eventual winner Kenyan Edwin Koech in the 2019 Cape Town Marathon. Galant races at Killarney at the end of the month. Photo: Stephen Granger Cape Town is taking its place in the relatively long line of...

Fast pace as Kenyans win in Siena, South African women’s record shattered by Steyn.

Kenyans Eric Kiptanui and Angela Tanui took line honours in impressive style at the Xiamen Marathon and Tuscan Training Camp Elite Race in Italy on Sunday morning (April 11) while South African Gerda Steyn, smashed the South African national...

Italian “last chance” for marathon Olympics hopefuls

There's a ‘Last Chance Saloon’ for marathon athletes still hoping for an Olympic qualifier. It comes in the form of Sunday’s (April 11) Xiamen Marathon & Tuscany Camp Global Elite Race, to be run on a multi-lap course in Siena in...
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