by Tammi | Mar 23, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour ACCRA 24
Are champions born or made? It’s an age-old debate and the answer is probably that it’s a combination of both. Early in the evening of Monday, 11th March, at the Borteyman Sports Complex Aquatics Center in Accra, we learnt that both apply to Catherine van Rensburg....
by Tammi | Mar 23, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour ACCRA 24
Meet Victor Hogan, a 140kg, 1.99m man mountain by day, a gentle giant by night. He was Team South Africa’s first athletics gold medallist in Accra, Ghana, and continued the country’s impressive line of performances in the discus event at the African Games. Hogan is...
by Tammi | Mar 23, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour ACCRA 24
Wrestling saved Michael Mhlanga’s life. That’s no exaggeration, it really did. Last year, in fact, at 6 o’clock one morning in Boksburg. This is the 18-year-old’s story, so let him tell it like it is. If it sounds dramatic it’s because it is. It follows on from what...
by Tammi | Mar 15, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour ACCRA 24
When she speaks it’s with a soft voice. I’m sitting about a metre away from her but initially have to lean in a bit to hear what she is saying. Perhaps it’s because Dr Koketjo Tsebe is a sports psychologist and presumably most of her work with clients is that they do...
by Tammi | Mar 15, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour ACCRA 24
Firstly, let’s dispel the myth and the stereotype. Gert, the burly regular who has his own stool at the counter of the local pub and who can change a flat tyre without needing a jack, might have won a few arm-wrestling contests in his time. Give him a few doppe and...
by Tammi | Mar 4, 2024 | Latest Writing, On Tour ACCRA 24
As a group of athletes step onto the escalator in single file, heading towards international departures at OR Tambo, there’s one person in a Team SA tracksuit cruising up the adjoining stairs. He’s taking two at a time. That in itself isn’t something that will have...
