OLYMPICS Archives

15 police officers to assist in performing policing functions at the 2024 Olympics in France

Zuko Komisa Image | @SAPoliceService /X A group of fifteen SAPS officers has been sent to Paris, France, for the Olympic games. The squad, which consists of eight men and seven women, is in charge of handling a variety of tasks like crowd control, maintaining public safety, and assisting police stations and cell phone reception areas. They all have at least ten years of experience working in a public-order police […]

25/07/2024

SPORTS

300,000 free condoms to be distributed at the 2024 Paris Olympics

Zuko Komisa Image | Adobe Stock 300,000 free condoms to be distributed to 14,250 Olympic athletes in July. In an interview with Sky News on Saturday, Olympic Village director Laurent Michaud disclosed that 300,000 condoms will be made accessible for the 14,250 athletes who will be lodging in their apartments during the 2024 Paris Games. Paris, France is hosting this year's Olympics. The games will run from July 26 to […]

19/03/2024

SPORTS

Wayde van Niekerk bags first final in 5 years

By Zuko Komisa World record-holder Wayde van Niekerk is back with a bang and is ready to make South Africa proud yet again. At the global championships in Eugene, Oregon, on Wednesday, van Niekerk was placed second in his 400m semifinal heat to qualify for his first significant final in five years. He started out in the lead but found himself in a close race towards the conclusion of the lap. Also Read: […]

21/07/2022

SPORTS

Justin Gatlin’s athletics career crosses the finish line

Morena Mothupi Olympic gold medalist, Justin Gatlin has decided to call time on his athletics career, on his 40th birthday. Gatlin bagged five Olympic medals in his near-20 year professional career. He got the gold in the 100m, silver in the 4x100m relay and bronze in the 200m, all at the Athens games of 2004. In 2006, the American sprinter was banned from the sport for four years for testing […]

11/02/2022

LIFESTYLE

Mzansi reacts to Team SA’s Olympic uniform

There have been mixed reactions to Team SA's Olympic uniform. On Friday, the country got to see the Olympians who are representing South Africa at the Tokyo Olympics for the first time, in what was a fresh take of what best represents us as a country. Team SA's Olympic uniform was designed by Mr Price and the shoes were from Veldskoen shoes, a brand made in South Africa. The talented […]

25/07/2021

NEWS

“Let’s play Holocaust.” – Olympic opening ceremony director fired for Holocaust joke

By Kaya 959 News The Tokyo Olympic organizing committee have fired the director of the opening ceremony on Thursday because of a Holocaust joke he made during a comedy show in 1998. He was accused of using a joke about the Holocaust in his comedy act, including the phrase “Let’s play Holocaust.” Director of #Tokyo2020 opening ceremony Kantaro Kobayashi has been sacked just a day before the ceremony, after the […]

23/07/2021

Latest

Caster Semenya misses the mark on Olympics qualification by seconds

Despite clinching the 5000m title in the South African championships in Pretoria today, Caster Semenya did not secure her spot at the Tokyo Olympics. With her new personal best in the distance race, the 800m Olympic Champion fell just short of the 15 minutes 10 seconds qualifying time. Caster beat her previous 5000m mark of 16:14.43 by a big margin, coming in at 15 minutes, 52.28 seconds. Her ambitions to […]

15/04/2021

LIFESTYLE

Smeda hoping for Champions League action

Apart from the World Cup, the Uefa Champions League is the most coveted competition to play in, players would do anything, including putting their lives on hold for the chance of playing in Europe’s top club competition. Leandra Smeda’s recent move to Lithuanian side Gintra Universitetas was motivated by the prospect of facing the world’s best women footballers. The Banyana Banyana midfielder even made a bold decision to put her […]

17/07/2018