Du Toits day is tomorrow

Firstly just a quick reminder of yesterday, Khotso "Crocodile" Mokoena claimed silver in the long jump. Sorry couldn't resist. Wednesday will see the assault on what would be the most incredible medal in Olympic history. Natalie Du Toit will swim in the 10km open water swimming event at 3am SA time - be sure to set your alarm clocks for one of sports greatest moments.

Du Toit lost her left leg in a motorcycle accident when she was 16 and after conquering the paralympics in 2004 and competing in the able bodied Commonwealth Games in 2002 (finishing 8th in the 800m final) she set her sights on becoming the first amputee to qualify for the Olympics. Tomorrow I have no doubt Du Toit will fulfill her destiny and if you think I'm blowing smoke up your ass - she finished 4th in the able bodied world champs in Seville earlier this year! Now this would be a story to rival that Phelps fellow ...

Sifiso Nhlapo will also be in action in the BMX qualification with the final on Thursday. Oh what a story it would be to have 3 medals by Thursday.

Blade Runner Again

I think that we all know how I feel about Oscar "Blade Runner" Pistorius. Found an interesting debate on iafrica.com about the issue which raises some good points and is worth the read. That doesn't make the anti Pistorius lobby right though!

The reason the Boks lost

Several articles on the net and in some local papers have suggested that the reason the Boks lost on Saturday was down to the tomfoolery and splat dash attitude they took into the game apparently epitomised by the Sasol advert which ran in Saturdays papers. Lets take a look ...

The add that caused the loss

Clearly an unhappy team
Thank goodness John Smit didn't play, who knows how many we would have lost by then
Aaaah The Beast what a poor test he had

Seriously guys the reason we lost was because of our gameplan/poor execution as far as I'm aware the boys didn't piss the night away celebrating with Percy on Friday - too me this looks like a worthy tribute to an even worthier player. Honestly someone pays these people to write ...

Finally

Khotso Mokoena you little beauty!!!!!! Finally what has been a torturous week for South African sports fans got it's silver lining.

Mokoena soared to a silver medal this afternoon (SA time) in the long jump. The former world junior champion in triple jump secured the silver with a jump of 8.24 metres after briefly leading from Panama's Irving Saladino.

Mokoena who is the current world indoor champion secured the first medal for team SA at this games. I'm sure he'll come home to heroes welcome and rightfully so. Here's to hoping we add to the haul, as the Chinese, Yanks and Brits have proved winning is contagious, lets hope team SA all get the fever.

Note: My favourite for gold Sifiso Nhlapo is up on Thursday and I'm also tipping Natalie du Toit for a medal.

Black Out at home ...

It's bad enough that Eskom can't provide us with electricity but to be blacked out at home. We lost 19-0. Enuff said. Somebody had better go home and have a darn good look at themselves. That's all I have to say on that ...

The Spirit of the Olympics Part III

Seriously dude not cool! This is how not behave at the Olympics. Ara Abrahamian and Sweden take a bow, for trying to destroy the Olympic spirit.

Blade Runner can't hear either ...

AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME. We may not be lighting up the world at the Olympics but just wait for the Amakrokokroko, why does this country consistently produce paralympic teams that punch way above their weight level?

Our country is not only home to the arguably the two best paralympians, Oscar Pistorius and Natalie Du Toit, but also claimed 15 Gold medals in Athens, 13th place overall and a staggering tally of 35 total medals. Which begs several questions why don't we fire the whole of SASCOC and replace them with DISSA? Why on earth don't we as South Africans make more noise about our paralympians? And where the hell can I get a Amakrokokroko t-shirt!

I'll leave the last words to Oscar "you are not disabled by the disabilities you have, you are able by the abilities you have."