South Africa coach Peter de Villiers has made one change to his starting line-up for Saturday’s Tri-Nations Test against Australia in Bloemfontein. Lock Danie Rossouw, who has been struggling with a hip injury, returns to the starting XV after two weeks on the bench, swapping with Flip van der Merwe, the 25-year-old who impressed in [...]
Tags: Australia, Bloemfontein, Danie Rossouw, Tri Nations
Roger Federer served notice he was still a powerhouse at the US Open and punctuated his performance with another sensational shot for the ages in a first-round rout over Argentine Brian Dabul. Federer, whose run of five successive US titles was snapped last year in a five-set final against Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro, closed [...]
Tags: Roger Federer, Tennis, US Open
Butch James, Jannie du Plessis and Flip van der Merwe are all doubts for South Africa ahead of this week’s final Tri-Nations encounter against Australia in Bloemfontein. The trio sat out training on Monday, but the nature of their injuries are yet to be revealed after they underwent scans earlier in the day. However, reports [...]
Tags: Butch James, Flip van der Merwe, Jannie du Plessis, Springboks, Tri Nations
There are only two rounds of the 2010 World of Accessories Junior National Off-road Championship for young motorcycle and quad racers left and the upcoming Mafikeng Junior National (4 September), the sixth round of the season, will be very important for those who stand a chance of winning championship titles. A glance at the scoreboard [...]
David Rudisha has broken the 800m world record for the second time in eight days at a meeting in Rieti, Italy. The 21-year-old Kenyan ran one minutes 41.01 seconds to better the time he recorded in Berlin last Sunday by eight hundredths of a second. The previous best of 1:41.11, set by Denmark’s Kenyan-born Wilson [...]
Tags: Athletics, David Rudisha, Kenyan
Pakistan captain Salman Butt has seen no evidence that he is implicated in any of the ‘spot-fixing’ allegations against members of his team. England’s victory in the fourth Test at Lord’s was entirely overshadowed by newspaper revelations – and the subsequent arrest of a 35-year-old man, from outside the Pakistan squad – alleging attempts to [...]
Tags: Pakistan, Salman Butt, Spot-Fixing
Lewis Hamilton thanked his lucky stars after overcoming a ‘China moment’ on his way to winning in Belgium and retaking the championship lead. Hamilton famously missed out on the title in his 2007 debut season after slipping off the track in the rain while leading the penultimate Chinese Grand Prix and becoming bogged down in [...]
Tags: Belgium, F1, Grand Prix, Lewis Hamilton
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