Posted on June 24, 2020
As a former Olympic Youth champion, Gezelle Magerman, made a promise to herself to never retire before she knows she has given it her all as 400m-hurdler.
Posted on June 18, 2020
The South African 400m-hurdles champion Zeney van der Walt enjoys playing with her dogs, and from time to time to watch television but for her, the best is still hurdling at speed.
Posted on June 17, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has forced the Tuks sprinter, Henricho Bruintjies, to have a serious rethink about life.
Posted on June 04, 2020
Athletes with hopes of maybe competing at next year's Tokyo Olympics are nowadays getting more advice than they need or want while they are training. Some have even become "video stars".
Posted on June 03, 2020
The Adidas/Tuks sprinter, Akani Simbine's "long sprint to freedom", started for real yesterday when he got to challenge his coach's stopwatch for the first time in ten weeks on a golf course in Kempton Park.
Posted on June 02, 2020
South Africa’s athletes are being advised to forget about competing this year, and instead start preparing for the 2021 season, given that the COVID-19 pandemic looks set to force the cancellation of all sport till at least late this year.
Posted on May 19, 2020
It won't be wrong to refer to the Tuks athletics track as to where athletes get to fulfill their speedy aspirations.
Posted on May 12, 2020
76 is an age where most might consider starting to tone down on their aspirations, but then again the Tuks athletics coach Hugo Badenhorst has never been most people.
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