By GARY LEMKE in Paris There’s something familiar about the guy wearing black New Zealand team kit. As there is the guy in the blue of India. Or the guy dressed in the Great Britain Olympic gear. What is it? The mind starts to scramble for answers. Trying to places names to faces, which is…

By GARY LEMKE in Paris Three South African marathoners took to the streets and hills on the final day of competition at the 2024 Paris Olympics. All three finished the gruelling 42.2km route in suffocating heat. All three have their own stories to tell. All three will share a life experience. As the curtain came…

By GARY LEMKE in Paris They call Paris the City of Light and Jo-Ane van Dyk’s name shone as brightly as anything on Saturday night as she earned Team SA’s sixth medal of the 2024 Olympics. The bubbly 26-year-old had arrived at her second Olympics in the best form of her life. She’d come off…

By GARY LEMKE in Paris For 25km the dream lived on. Were we reliving a “Josia Thugwane moment” 28 years later? There was Elroy Galant, matching strides with the elite men’s marathoners in the world around the outskirts of Paris. In fact, he’d already left some of the biggest names in the sport, including Kenyan…

Team SA were involved in five sports at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Saturday as the Games started drawing to a close. They had started with five medals but javelin thrower Jo-Ane van Dyk upped it to six with a brilliant effort of 63.93m. Also in finals action at a packed Stade de France on…

Akani Simbine ran the final leg of the men's 4x100m relay to help carry his country across the line to the silver medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Here's a selection of images from Team SA photographers Anton Geyser and Roger Sedres

By GARY LEMKE in Paris Akani Simbine finally has that Olympic medal that he has both cherished, and deserved. The star sprinter, who has placed fifth and twice fourth in the men’s 100m final, produced the most blistering run ever seen by a South African at a packed Stade de France on Friday…

By GARY LEMKE in Paris The smiling assassin, the four-time Olympian and the exciting newbie will be carrying the South African flag with pride as they take to the Paris roads to compete in Sunday’s women’s marathon, the last day of action at these 2024 Games, Gerda Steyn, the 34-year-old all-conquering…

The men's 4x100m relay team clinched the SILVER medal behind surprise gold medallists Canada at the 2024 Paris Olympics at a packed Stade de France on Friday night. This was a fifth medal for Team SA at these Games. In canoeing, Hamish Lovemore and Andrew Birkett finished 6th in their semi-final of the men's double…