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  • Slugging it out in public  25 Jul 2008 08:00 GMT
    ... Komphela on Moss Mashishi’s SA Confederation and Olympic Committee – that the organisation is full ... in the same trenches for a nonracial South Africa and therefore would be sensitive to the ...

  • AP Top International News At 3:27 a.m. EDT 25 Jul 2008 07:59 GMT
    ... Olympian PR bout under way in Washington Olympic ticket sale in Beijing starts stampede Gaza ... in Manila Cyclone-battered fisheries worsen Myanmar's pain South Africa lawyer nominated as UN rights chief Detainee ...

  • Giving athletes a sporting chance 25 Jul 2008 07:31 GMT
    ... gold medal at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Another has stood among 100,000 people at ... the people stand out. “Like Mandela, (former South African president) FW de Klerk (Inkatha Freedom Party ... the ANC to take over. He loved South Africa and wanted the best for the country, ...

  • The healing hands working miracles on your back on the Sunshine Coast may well have worked on some of our most famous athletes 25 Jul 2008 07:31 GMT
    ... gold medal at the Salt Lake City Olympics. Another has stood among 100,000 people at ... the people stand out. “Like Mandela, (former South African president) FW de Klerk (Inkatha Freedom Party ... the ANC to take over. He loved South Africa and wanted the best for the country, ...

  • Komphela remarks brought Parliament into disrepute 25 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT
    ... THIS is an open letter to the speaker of Parliament, Baleka ... statements made by Butana Komphela regarding the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), suffice to say that his ...

  • Gary's hot dog eating plan brings a Plate full of success 25 Jul 2008 06:34 GMT
    ... to stage major events. Already the Beijing Olympics is forecast to be a nightmare because ... a stream of stories coming out about South Africa, who are staging the next football World ...

  • Lamb on the Run: How not to win an Olympic marathon 25 Jul 2008 05:14 GMT
    ... the Run: How not to win an Olympic marathon Published: Thursday, July 24, 2008 9:47 ... Zealand's earlier series of rugby games in South Africa, which still observed apartheid… …Because of this, ...

  • Iraq Takes a Dispute With Qatar to Court 25 Jul 2008 05:13 GMT
    ... team finished fourth at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. In 2007, Iraq was a ... tournament for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. “Football became the only joy for us ...

  • Miguel Cotto is a world champion with two sides 25 Jul 2008 05:10 GMT
    ... Miguel Cotto, the unbeaten WBA welterweight champion from Puerto ... brother Jose, who boxed in the 1996 Olympics. "Year after year I took the boxing ... what he is," says Landman, the boxer's South African-born trainer. "Just hanging out, he's normal. It's ...

  • Kookas' quality in their cast-offs 25 Jul 2008 04:47 GMT
    ... Games, beside those who will live their Olympic dream, humbling themselves for the best interests ... several senior players from a tour to South Africa in January and blooded a group of ...

  • Into Africa 25 Jul 2008 04:46 GMT
    ... and management in Sudan, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and South Africa. Scholarships are offered for university study in ... brutal regimes in the run-up to the Olympic Games, has pressured Sudan to cooperate with ... even the old-comrade ties that have made South African president Thabo Mbeki reluctant to criticize Mugabe. ...

  • No. 1 ranking under threat 25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... Roger Federer's hopes of retaining the ATP World No. ... who has held top spot in the South African Airways Rankings for 234 consecutive weeks (since ... calendar shift this season to accommodate the Olympics. Last year, ATP Masters Series events in ...

  • Namibia: Gaby Targets Way Up at Games 25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... off to China for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Her father and coach, Hasso Ahrens, ... forced to continue her training in neighbouring South Africa. She will depart for South Africa this ... week, and to also participate in the South African Championships on 26 July. The competition is ...

  • Zimbabwe: Mwaruwari Injured 25 Jul 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... at the 2010 World Cup finals in South Africa and the 2010 Nations Cup finals in ... the Brazil squad ahead of the Beijing Olympics, while Bernado Corradi and Rolando Bianchi are ...

  • Drysdale's barbs slice with a velvet knife 25 Jul 2008 04:42 GMT
    ... the man with the gravy-smooth, elegantly cut South African accent — was a bowl of jitters ... of my connections. The U.S. was playing South Africa in a Davis Cup tie in Newport ... checkered pants. 's goal of playing the Olympics is over. She officially withdrew, unable to ...


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