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BULLETIN SPORTS NEWS 9 September 12:30 pm

Good day, let’s look at the latest sports news and scores:

# Paralympic Games: Team South Africa finished with six medals, two gold and four bronze, in Paris. Twenty athletes competed in seven sports, compared with the 34 who won seven medals at the Tokyo Games three years ago. The two gold medals were won by Mpumelelo Mhlongo in the men’s T44 100-meter and 19-year-old Simoné Kruger in the women’s discus throw F38. Donald Ramphadi and Lucas Sithole made history as the first South Africans to win a medal in wheelchair tennis at the Games, winning bronze.

# Rugby: French Top 14 club Racing 92 has confirmed it has reached an agreement with Springbok captain Siya Kolisi to part ways, with two years left on his contract. The 33-year-old joined Racing from the Sharks in January last year. He made only 18 appearances for the French club last season, scoring one try. Kolisi has been linked with a move back to the Sharks. Racing got their Top 14 season started on Saturday with a 31-28 loss to Castres.

Meanwhile, the Sharks have the momentum going into the knockout stage of the Currie Cup after beating the Bulls 24-18 in Durban. Both teams scored two tries each but it was the boot of flyhalf Siya Masuku that made the difference, kicking four penalties and a conversion. The two teams will renew hostilities on Saturday when they face each other in the semifinals at Loftus Versfeld in Pretoria. In the other semifinal, log leaders the Lions host the Cheetahs.

# Tennis: World number one Jannik Sinner won his maiden US Open title, becoming the first Italian man to win the singles title at Flushing Meadows. He saw off American Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5. The 23-year-old, who won his first major at the Australian Open in January, is the first man to claim his first two Grand Slam titles in the same season for 47 years. Sinner says he cannot compare the two majors he has won:

# And, motorsport: Six-time MotoGP world champion Marc Márquez made it back-to-back wins with victory at the San Marino Grand Prix in Italy after he won in Spain last weekend. Light rain early in the race made for tricky conditions, which the Gresini Ducati rider took advantage of. Francesco Bagnaia finished second, Enea Bastianini third and South Africa’s Brad Binder fourth. Márquez, who has reduced Jorge Martín’s championship lead to just seven points, says he took more risks in the rain:

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