Athletics

Wanted: A hero, new or old, for SA track and field

There’s a Wayde-and-Caster-sized void in SA athletics

31 December 2021 - 00:00

By David Isaacson

South African track and field needs a hero. The Tokyo Games handed SA an Olympic-sized snotklap in August with not a single competitor reaching the podium — the first time in the post-isolation era that SA had failed to win a medal in the code.

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