Read More Here: "Beijing - If, as seems likely, Team SA returns from the Beijing Olympics with only one solitary medal, the country will have to face up to one inconvenient and painful truth: South Africa no longer has the right to call itself a great sporting nation.
For as much as the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) might have praised Team SA during the past two weeks for breaking African records and setting personal bests, it is only too aware that it's medals that are the mark of Olympic success.
As Sifiso Nhlapo - one of the few South African podium contenders - hit the ground and crashed out of the medals in the final of the BMX competition on Friday, the wailing and gnashing of teeth by the assembled Team SA officials rent the morning air: 'That was our medal,' keened Hajera Kajee, who leads the team at the games."
Sunday, 24 August 2008
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