Sports News 12:30

BULLETIN SPORTS NEWS 29 July 12:30 pm

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

# We start off with news from the Commonwealth Games: South African swimmers secured another five medals to take the country’s tally in Glasgow to 16. Chad le Clos earned a record-equalling 20th Games medal as he helped Team SA claim silver in the mixed four-by-100-metres relay. Lara van Niekerk won gold in the women’s 50-metres breaststroke. Aimee Canny secured silver in the women’s 200-metres individual medley. Paralympians Danicka Vyncke and Nathan Hendricks won silver medals in their respective S13 50-metres freestyle disciplines. In Netball, Team SA cruised to a 78-30 victory over Northern Ireland.

# Rugby: Springboks coach Rassie Erasmus says almost his entire squad is fit and available for next weekend’s one-off Test against Argentina in Buenos Aires. Ox Nché and Franco Mostert have been ruled out, but players such as captain Siya Kolisi, Eben Etzebeth, Lood de Jager, and Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu are back from injury. Twenty-six Boks will travel to Argentina this Saturday. Erasmus says the focus now is entirely on Los Pumas:

More rugby: The experienced number eight Aseza Hele returns to the Springbok Women’s squad for next month’s tour of Fiji. She missed the Africa Women’s Cup in May and this month’s two Tests against America after undergoing hand surgery, and will feature for South Africa for the first time since her brilliant performances in last year’s World Cup in England. Hooker Lindelwa Gwala is also back after a calf injury. The Boks and the Fijiana-15 will meet in Tests in Suva and Lautoka on 8 and 15 August.

# Golf: The Sunshine Tour is expanding further into Africa with the launch of the new Rwanda Open, which will be played at the Kigali Golf Club in September. The tournament with prize money of 2.5-million-rand will feature Sunshine Tour and Rwandan professionals, leading amateur stars, and a host of players from throughout Africa. The tour already has a tournament presence in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, Kenya, and Uganda. Commissioner Thomas Abt says the Rwanda Open is another positive step towards offering opportunities for African golfers on the global stage.

# And soccer: Newly-appointed French head coach Zinedine Zidane says he is overwhelmed by emotion after realising a long-held dream. He succeeds Didier Deschamps, whose 14-year reign ended after the country finished fourth in the World Cup. Fifty-four-year-old Zidane, who played 108 matches for France between 1994 and 2006, is regarded as the country’s best player of all times. He previously coached Spanish giants Real Madrid, leading them to three consecutive Champions League titles from 2016 to 2018, but says the French job was the only one he ever wanted.  

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