It was always going to be the stuff that wild dreams are made of. But such is the brilliance of Chad le Clos that he allowed us to dream like that, writes GARY LEMKE on the Gold Coast in Australia.
2018 Commonwealth Games
Team South Africa are in action across nine sporting codes on Saturday, 7 April.
(All times SA times. Local Gold Coast time in brackets, * TBD = To be determined)
South Africa’s netballers were flattened by a Jamaican juggernaut that overpowered them in the last quarter to win a pulsating Pool A match 57-46 at the Commonwealth Games, writes GARY LEMKE in Gold Coast, Australia.
Lebogang Shange has been threatening to win a medal in the 20-kilometre race walk at a major event since 2015 – on Sunday morning he may get to do just that, writes MARK ETHERIDGE in Gold Coast, Australia.
Team South Africa’s boxing campaign at the Commonwealth Games took an early blow on Friday after Siyabulela Mphongoshi lost, writes MARK ETHERIDGE in Gold Coast, Australia.
Mphongoshi was the first of just two boxers in the team to fight when he took on Sri Lanka’s Thiwanke Ranasinghe.
The venue was the impressive Oxenford Studios. The location hosted…
With one gold medal under their belt from day one, when Henri Schoeman won the triathlon, Team SA went in search of more medals on day two. And they hit paydirt in the pool! This is how they fared.
Chad le Clos was yet to take the beard off but he’s got his game face on as he goes in search of history at these Commonwealth Games, writes GARY LEMKE in Gold Coast, Australia.
Team South Africa are in action across eight sporting codes on Friday, 7 April.
(All times SA times. Local Gold Coast time in brackets, * TBD = To be determined)
BADMINTON
1.01am (9.01am): Mixed Team, Group C: South Africa (Michelle Butler-Emmett, Elmé de Villiers, Bongani van Bodenstein, Prakash Vijayanath, Johanita Scholtz, Cameron Coetzer) vs England
11.01am (7.01pm): Mixed Team,…
South Africa’s women’s hockey team will be plucking the positives out of their opening Pool A match defeat to England before they take on Malaysia on Saturday, writes GARY LEMKE in Gold Coast, Australia.
Team South Africa got off to a golden Commonwealth Games start as Henri Schoeman won the men's triathlon event on Thursday's first day of competition, writes MARK ETHERIDGE in Gold Coast, Australia.