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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
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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