Posted on September 15, 2020
Getting the javelin to fly 70 metres through the air and to "jol" are the goals Sunette Viljoen set herself over the next 52 weeks.
Posted on September 18, 2020
Akani Simbine (Adidas-Tuks) assured another career first last night in Rome when he won the 100 metres during a Diamond League Meeting.
Posted on September 18, 2020
The Covid-19 virus could not stop TuksGolf's head coach, Llewellyn van Leeuwen, from helping to guide George Coetzee to win the Portuguese Masters Tournament last weekend.
Posted on September 17, 2020
Every so often, the media would go big on a story about a well-known athlete or player who is in a race against time to be fit for a vital encounter.
Posted on September 16, 2020
Tomorrow night when Akani Simbine lines up to race the 100 metres in Rome; it could be history in the making for the Adidas-Tuks athlete.
Posted on September 15, 2020
Perfection or as close to perfection as he can get is what Johan Lourens strives towards each time he dives into a swimming pool.
Posted on September 11, 2020
From "pawn to king" is how Mfundo Masiya role at the TuksChess Club changed.
Posted on September 10, 2020
Next year when Tuks's Varsity Cup rugby team takes to the field things will not be quite the same as the "Big Man" won't be watching from the sidelines.
Posted on September 09, 2020
Akani Simbine retained his unbeaten streak in the 100 meters for the season when last night he won the short sprint during the 56th Palio Città Della Quercia Meeting in Italy.
Posted on September 09, 2020
The Tuks female athlete of the century, Caster Semenya, may have lost her appeal to the Swiss Federal Tribunal but her legacy as an 800-meter athlete will remain for a long time to come.
Posted on September 07, 2020
Dr. Rendani Mulaudzi joined TuksSport in 2000 as a Sports Manager. In 2007, he was appointed as a Deputy Director. With his widespread experience in the sport industry, in 2005, he starting serving as an Acting General Manager of AmaTuks. Today, he is a TuksSport Deputy Director of Sport...
Posted on September 04, 2020
Akani Simbine (Adidas-Tuks) made it two out two last night when he won the 100 metres during the World Athletics meeting in Marseille.
Posted on September 04, 2020
Future Olympians can take comfort knowing that staff at the University of Pretoria's Sport, Exercise Medicine and Lifestyle Institute (SEMLI) are not only accomplished in their fields of expertise but also have personal experience in performance sport.
Posted on September 02, 2020
Dr Henning Gericke is considered by many in South African sport as the "Kop Dokter". The go-to guy who can make athletes believe anything is possible.
Posted on September 01, 2020
TuksWrestling proved with the appointment of Tanki Tau as its first black coach that it is never only about winning medals. The club's aim is to make a difference on and off the mats.
Posted on August 27, 2020
Sport is about fair play that is why Tuks's professor Steve Cornelius will never hesitate to involve himself if he can help right a wrong.
Posted on August 27, 2020
Tuks's archers are at long last back doing what they like most which are staying calm and shooting straight.
Posted on August 24, 2020
Blistered and bruised but happy is what Niel Thiart (Bestmed Athletics Club) was this morning when after 48 hours he got to stop running around the TuksAthletics track.
Posted on August 21, 2020
Don't go through life without "goals" is the motto Carmen Smith abides by when playing hockey. The same goes for when she studies.
Posted on August 21, 2020
The Adidas-Tuks sprinter, Akani Simbine, will be settling in his starting blocks to race next month in Marseille, France.
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