The Mad4Waves team set a world record for the youngest four-man team to row unaided across the Atlantic, although it wasn’t all plain sailing.
Wow, this whole sports drugs vibe is getting out of hand. If it wasn’t enough that one of our own top cyclists was busted shortly after Lance Armstrong, we now have a problem in our schools. And apparently it’s the worst in the world.
While on a kayak trip down the Amazon River, a young South African adventurer was ambushed by a pair of youths. His attackers shot him three times and left him for dead but, despite his serious wounds, he got up and ran 5km to the nearest village to receive help.
Yesterday we received our third gold medal at the London Olympics, when our men’s lightweight rowing team managed to edge out Denmark and Great Britain in the rowing final at the Eton Downey rowing centre. These pictures of Sizwe Ndlovu, Matthew Brittain, John Smith and James Thompson celebrating – a mixture of elation and exhaustion after the grueling race – makes me so proud to be from the same country as these guys!
South Africa received its third gold medal earlier today, when our men’s lightweight coxless four managed to edge out Denmark and Great Britain in a thrilling rowing final at the Eton Downey rowing centre.