by Tammi | Aug 8, 2023 | From The Archives
By GARY LEMKE Sitting in her makeshift office on another hot, humid day, with the air conditioner cooling down things, Danisha Mendes looks right at home. Not that she calls the Trinidad capital of Port Of Spain home, but as she goes about her business she may as well...
by Gary Lemke | Mar 1, 2023 | From The Archives
“Being in gymnastics has normalised crying,” Caitlin Rooskrantz says. And then she laughs. “My coach [Ilse Roets] has los trane (loose tears). I’m always crying, we all are. It’s contagious. We all have deep feelings and we cry for anything. We even cry when we’re...
by Gary Lemke | Mar 1, 2023 | From The Archives
February 1990: There is change in the air. South Africans are experiencing a bright new dawn. A month earlier, FW de Klerk announced the end of apartheid and Nelson Mandela was freed from prison after 27 years. The world was watching as South Africans faced change...
by Gary Lemke | Mar 1, 2023 | From The Archives
David hasn’t quite slayed Goliath but he has landed a few blows which have shaken up the established order at these Commonwealth Games. The men’s hockey team will see Monday’s bronze medal showdown against England as a further opportunity to bloody the nose of a...
