Swimming
Red-tape fiasco turns Lara’s Olympic dream to nightmare
Breaststroke star in late dash to qualify for games
26 May 2024 - 00:00
A bureaucratic botch-up has obliterated two Olympic-qualifying swims that should have seen double Commonwealth Games champion Lara van Niekerk safely onto the South African team for the Paris showpiece...
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