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Tokyo Games: Lack of funds hits SA’s effort

Tatjana Schoenmaker notwithstanding, SA had a poor Olympics

08 August 2021 - 00:03 By david isaacson

The late Barbara Dowell, once the face of synchronised swimming in SA, was a wonderful raconteur with a library of anecdotes. At the 2016 Olympic trials in Durban she told me of how she had visited London during the 1948 Games, and recounted an amusing tale about one of SA’s marathon runners...

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