Africa’s history at the Olympic Winter Games
Since 1984, at least one African nation has competed at each subsequent winter Olympics
Beijing Olympics
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Are role models going to pot?
A day after a photo emerged of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps appearing to smoke pot, questions are raised on what makes a true role model.
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Beijing returns to congested normal after Olympics
Beijing was grinding back to its congested normal on Saturday after two months of traffic restrictions and factory closures.
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Du Toit turns attention to London 2012
Natalie du Toit on Monday said she was eyeing London 2012 after winning five Paralympic golds and competing in the Beijing Olympics.
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Olympic hangover dawns
Millions of people around the world watched a display that presented China as modern, powerful, energetic and rich.
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The Olympics party is over. Now China has to clean up
Lavish parties tend to leave a hangover as the problems of daily life, put aside for the celebrations, come crowding back.
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Fairy-tale princesses and Olympic fakes
What makes a woman attractive is how feminine her face looks — and that’s probably linked to fertility.
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Post-Games China to refocus on economy, stability
China’s leaders will breathe a sigh of relief as the Beijing Olympics close, turning their attention back on the economy.
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Olympics: It’s about losing too
The message to a distraught Chinese public, still reeling from withdrawal of the nation’s biggest sporting hero, could not have been clearer.
The fake and the glory
”I want to help the Olympics. It is just a small thing, but I want to make a contribution” says one of the cheerleaders bussed in to fill empty seats.
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Mokoena wins South Africa’s first medal
Long jumper Khotso Mokoena grabbed SA’s first medal of the Beijing Olympics when he won silver in his event with a jump of 8,24m on Monday.
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Tension flares in SA swimming camp
Tensions in South Africa’s swimming camp boiled over on Sunday as Roland Schoeman took a massive swipe at Gerhard Zandberg.
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SA women struggle in Olympic triathlon
Australian Emma Snowsill has swept to a devastating victory in the Olympic triathlon, leaving two South African competitors behind.
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Injured ‘Shanghai Express’ out of Games
Chinese superstar Liu Xiang sensationally pulled out of the Games injured on Monday, putting a dampener on China’s success thus far.
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ID slams SA’s ‘wasted’ R11m Olympic publicity drive
The ID has slammed the ”completely unnecessary wastage” of R11-million on a failed publicity project to showcase South Africa at the Beijing Olympics.
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SA men’s hockey team win Olympic points
The South African men’s hockey team did what the women’s team still have to achieve by scoring their first points of the Beijing Olympics on Sunday.
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SA’s Van Deventer makes 1 500m final
Juan van Deventer cut it fine, but was helped to qualify for the 1 500m final by the speed of his A semifinal at the Bird’s Nest on Sunday night.
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Nadal takes Olympic gold
Spain’s Rafael Nadal adds Olympic gold to his glittering season collection as he destroys Chilean Fernando Gonzalez in the men’s singles final.
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Magnificent Phelps does it again
Michael Phelps completed his stunning display of swimming supremacy with an historic eighth gold medal at the Beijing Games on Sunday.
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Usain Bolt, the fastest man on Earth
Jamaica’s Usain Bolt won the men’s Olympic 100m in stunning style on Saturday, obliterating his own world record in 9,69 seconds.
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Djokovic wins Serbia’s first tennis medal
Novak Djokovic claimed Serbia’s first-ever Olympic tennis medal on Saturday while the giant-killing run of China’s Li Na came shuddering to a halt.
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Bolt streaks ahead as Gay crashes out
World-record holder Usain Bolt scorched into the men’s 100m final of the Beijing Olympics on Saturday, but Tyson Gay crashed out.
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SA rowing pair fifth in Games final
South Africa’s men’s rowing pair Ramon di Clemente and Shaun Keeling had to settle for fifth place in their Olympic final on Saturday.
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‘Affectionate gesture’ sparks a global storm
Spain’s Olympic basketball teams posed for a pre-Olympics advertisement making ”slit-eyed” gestures on a court decorated with a Chinese dragon.
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Mixed Olympic fortunes for South Africa
On the sunniest day so far of the Olympics Games, South African fortunes took a turn for the better.
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From bullets and bombs to Beijing
Iraq’s Dana Abdulrazak, who braved sniper fire and bombs in order to train, was a winner just by starting the women’s 100m opening heats on Saturday.
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Millions wasted on SA Olympic marketing centre
Sport and Recreation Minister Makhenkesi Stofile has asked his staff to explain why a marketing centre in Beijing has not been operational.
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Another gold for Phelps in Beijing
Michael Phelps won a record-equalling seventh Olympic gold medal in Beijing, ahead of Saturday’s showpiece, the athletics’ men’s 100m final.
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China under cloud over Olympic fakes
Children from China’s dominant Han population represented Tibetan and other ethnic groups in the Olympic opening ceremony, an official said.
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Kirsty Coventry: Africa’s best
Zimbabwean swimmer Kirsty Coventry has not only given her politically beleaguered country something to smile about.
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There is still Olympic hope for SA, apparently
All is not lost yet, but there is a fair bit of panic in some SA circles as, after almost a week in Beijing, the country is yet to win a medal.
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World’s fastest men start their engines
The three fastest men in history all cruised through their Olympic 100m heats in Beijing on Friday.
