Category: Sports
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Homeground advantage: All Blacks have the unique ability to upend Springboks on home turf
The two upcoming Rugby Championship tests against the All Blacks will both be played in South Africa. Does this give the Springboks an advantage? We homed in on the stats and discovered that the Boks’ dogged ability to win when it counts most is matched by New Zealand’s confounding ability to dominate South Africa on…
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Paris 2024: South Africa’s Olympic journey in 7 charts
Paris 2024 – or, officially, the Games of the XXXIII Olympiad – gets underway on Friday, 26 July. It will be South Africa’s 21st Games, its ninth since the ban against its participation was lifted in 1992. South African athletes have won a total of 38 medals in the post-apartheid era – 11 gold, 18…
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990 caps: South Africa’s most-experienced XV to take on the Irish
The most-experienced team in Springbok history will take on the Irish in Durban on Saturday, 13 July. South Africa’s starting XV has a total of 990 combined test caps among them. This is three more than the run-on team that played in the Rugby World Cup final in France last year. Between them, they have…
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SA’s Olympic sprint hopeful in fine form
When South African sprinter Akani Simbine won at the Oslo Diamond League meeting on 30 May, it was his sixth 100m victory in six races. His winning time of 9.94 seconds was his first official sub-10 performance of the season. Outshining Olympic champion Marcell Jacobs, who came 4th with a time of 10.03, the South…
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Record marathoners: Keeping up with Africa’s fastest women
Africa has come to dominate long-distance running. No less than 82 of the world’s 100 fastest female runners were born in Kenya and Ethiopia.