# Olympics: International Olympic Committee president Kirstie Coventry says the Olympic Games unite the world and promote peaceful competition. This comes amid calls to sanction Israel and Russia ahead of the Winter Olympics in Italy. Russian athletes remain barred from competing under their national flag, while Israeli athletes face no restrictions. She stressed the IOC’s […]
# Rugby: Lions coach Mziwakhe Nkosi praised his rival Peter Bergh after the Kimberley side masterminded a shock 27-25 Currie Cup final victory at Ellis Park on Saturday afternoon. The visitors settled the tie with a George Whitehead penalty from the final kick of the game, ending a 55-year trophy drought and condemning the Lions […]
# Atletiek: Jo-Ane du Plessis het die beste vertoning deur die Suid-Afrikaanse span tot dusver by die Wêreldatletiekkampioenskap gelewer en gister vierde geëindig in die vroue-spiesgooi in Tokio, Japan. Op die voorlaaste dag van die byeenkoms het Du Plessis se spies op 63,06-meter geland met haar tweede ronde-poging. Die Suid-Afrikaanse mans 4×100-meter-aflosspan was baie verlig […]
# Motorsport: Max Verstappen het gister sy sesde voorste wegspringplek van die seisoen vir die Azerbeidjan Grand Prix op die Baku-straatbaan behaal ná ‘n chaotiese kwalifiseringsessie met minstens sewe ongelukke. Red Bull se heersende wêreldkampioen sal die Spanjaard Carlos Sainz van Williams langs hom hê, met die Nieu-Seelander Liam Lawson van Racing Bulls derde. Die […]
# Rugby: Engeland het gister ‘n begeesterde Frankryk met 35-17 in hul Vrouewêreldbeker-halfeindstryd in Bristol geklop. Die gasvroue is nou in hul sewende agtereenvolgende eindstryd en mik om die Wêreldbeker vir die eerste keer sedert 2014 te wen. Engeland is in vyf van hul laaste ses eindstrydwedstryde deur Nieu-Seeland geklop en kom nou teen Kanada, […]
# Rugby: Die gesoute losskakel George Whitehead het sy naam in die Curriebeker-geskiedenisboeke verseker toe hy die wenpunte vir die Griekwas aangeteken het om die Leeus met 27-25 te verslaan in nog ‘n dramatiese eindstryd gistermiddag op Ellispark. Die gashere het ‘n geringe voorsprong van 17-14 met rustyd gehad en met ‘n minuut oor was […]
# Athletics: Jo-Ane du Plessis produced the best performance by the South African team thus far at the World Athletics Championships, finishing fourth in the women’s javelin throw final in Tokyo, Japan, on Saturday. Turning out on the penultimate day of competition, Du Plessis landed the javelin at 63.06 metres with her second-round attempt. There […]
# Motorsport: Max Verstappen grabbed his sixth pole position of the season for the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on the Baku street circuit Saturday after a chaotic qualifying session with at least seven crashes. Red Bull’s reigning world champion will have the Spaniard Carlos Sainz of Williams next to him on the grid, with the New […]
# Rugby: England saw off a spirited France 35-17 in their Women’s Rugby World Cup semifinal in Bristol on Saturday. The hostesses are now into their seventh final in a row and bidding to win the World Cup for the first time since 2014. England was beaten in five of their last six by New […]
