South Africa explores hosting the 2036 Olympics and Paralympics
The South African Sports Confederation, Olympic and Paralympic Committee (Sascoc) President, Barry Hendricks, alongside CEO Nozipho Jafta...
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Team SA
Sep 6
How Team SA fared on Thursday
The sunshine disappeared in Paris and rain clouds descended over the French capital but nothing could dampen Team SA’s spirits on...
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Team SA
Sep 5
Why we’re all super proud of SupaPiet
It’s a bronze medal that’s worth its weight in gold. Pieter du Preez ride to the podium in the won in the H1 cycling time-trial at the...
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Team SA
Sep 5
How Team SA fared on Wednesday
Such are the vagaries of the Paralympic classification system that Mpumelelo Mhlongo broke the world record in the T44 long jump at the...
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Team SA
Sep 4
Team SA in action on Wednesday
Gold medallist Mpumelelo Mhlongo is back in action on a busy day for Team SA at the 2024 Paralympics. He competes in the men’s T64 long...
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Team SA
Sep 3
Weir gives it everything in Paralympic debut
Kirsty Weir emphatically proved that it’s not how you start but how you finish when she cut through the field to place eighth in the...
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Team SA
Aug 30
Team SA in action on Friday
There are four sports in action involving Team SA competitors on day two of the 2024 Paris Paralympics. Athletics starts, with bronze...
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Team SA
Aug 29
Get to know your Team SA Paralympic classifications
Team SA have representatives across nine different sporting codes at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris. For reference when it comes to...
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Team SA
Aug 29
I’m the luckiest Paralympian in the world – Weir
The makeshift workshop and interview room is actually a space at the end of a corridor in the Paralympic village. Rohan Kennedy is...
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Team SA
Aug 11
How Team SA fared on Saturday
Team SA were involved in five sports at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Saturday as the Games started drawing to a close. They had started...
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IOC Media
Aug 8
Paris 2024 Olympians elect four new members to IOC Athletes’ Commission
The athletes competing at the Olympic Games Paris 2024 have elected Allyson Felix (USA, Athletics), Kim Bui (GER, Gymnastics), Jessica...
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Team SA
Aug 8
How Team SA fared on Wednesday
There was a busy day for Team SA at the Paris 2024 Olympics on Wednesday, one of the busiest of the Games. Seven sporting codes...
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IOC Media
Aug 6
IOC announces finalists for Climate Action Awards 2024
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced the names of the finalists for the annual IOC Climate Action Awards 2024,...
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Team SA
Aug 5
Sascoc announces final team for Paris Paralympic Games
Another eight names were added to Team SA’s squad to attend the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris from 28 August to 8 September. They...
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Team SA
Aug 5
How Team SA fared on Sunday
Star sprinter Akani Simbine reached the final of the men’s 100m when he won his semi-final in an impressive 9.87sec, He then went even...
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Team SA
Aug 4
Busy Saturday for Team SA
It was a busy day for Team SA at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Men’s golfers Christiaan Bezuidenhut and Erik van Rooyen are on eight-under-par...
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Team SA
Jul 31
How Team SA fared on Tuesday
Team SA started Tuesday with three medals at the 2024 Paris Olympics after Alan Hatherly and Tatjana Smith added to the total on Monday....
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Team SA
Jul 30
Touch of class from Smith
Tatjana Smith showed that she has ice running through her veins when she surged to the gold medal in the women’s 100m breaststroke at the...
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IOC Media
Jun 23
Over 150 athletes stamp their tickets for Paris 2024
Over 150 athletes have successfully secured their quota places for the Olympic Games Paris 2024 following the inaugural Olympic Qualifier...
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IOC Media
Jun 18
Budapest stage set for final stop of Olympic Qualifier Series
The Olympic Qualifier Series (OQS) reaches its second, and final, stop at the Ludovika Campus in Budapest this week, where over 450...
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