Becoming a champion like Lungi Ngidi is easy – it’s remaining a champion that’s the challenging part.
Heroes
By Mark Etheridge Two weeks ago it was world champion hand-cyclist Justine Asher who had to evacuate her Noordhoek home because of the south Peninsula fires…. last week it was the turn of two-time Paralympian Roxy Burns.
By Mark Etheridge World H2 hand-cycling champion Justine Asher has already had more than a few of life's curve-balls thrown at her… and this week's fire horror in the Western Cape was just the latest.
It was a night of glitz and razzmatazz as the who’s who of the South African sport and social scene descended on the South African Sport Awards held at the Sandton Convention Centre on Sunday.
Hezekiel Sepeng, Olympic silver medallist and the first black South African to win an Olympic medal (800 metres) since the lifting of international sporting sanctions, today shares his thoughts of Madiba with Road to Rio 2016's Mark Etheridge.
Deaf Olympic swimmer Terence Parkin saved a seven-year-old from drowning after he was reportedly sucked in by a swimming pool vent at a Johannesburg gym, The Star newspaper reported on Friday.