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Team South Africa left for London Olympics with huge expectation form the nation and the Government as they set the standards high for them asking for 12 medals maximum , yes it might be out of reach now but hey have pulled out a great performance, almost matching their best performance of 4 Gold medals and 2 silvers in the Stockhom Games a century ago in 1912. And we stand a chance of jumping our own record should we pick up more medals as the is five days to go on this prestigious tournament.
The competition is nearing its end and team South Africa still have a chance to add few medals to the four that we already have with possible medals from the likes of :
- Caster Semenya who will be making her debut in the Olympics today in the 800 meters women race after the saga of her gender issues at Berlin 2009 world champions
- Sunette Viljoen needed one throw to qualify for the finals of javelin throw with a distance of 65,92m for her to qualify automatically
- Bridgette Hartley qualified for the semi-finals in he women's kayak single(k1) 500m after finishing second behind Hungary's Danuta Kozak
- Lehann Fourie recorded his best ever time in the men's 110m hurdles of 13,49 seconds which has guaranteed him spot in the semi-finals
- Oscar Pistorious will have another shot for a medal when he will b running the 4x4 400m relay
- Anaso Jobodwa finished second in the 200m race behind Frenchman Christophe Lemaitre, they will both b participating in the semi-finals with the 100m champion Usain bolt
- Andre oliver missed out in the semi-finals after finishing fifth in the 800m race
- Men's hockey team was thrashed 5-3 by Argentina their next game is on Saturday against India in the hopes of securing the eleventh place in the playoff
- Richard Murray finished 17 in the triathlon as the gold medal went to Britain triathlete Alistair Brownlee.
i think we are gonna get more medals, caster will definately bring a gold medal home today.
ReplyDeleteWe shouldn't put Team SA,at the edn we must not have high hopes
ReplyDeleteI was expecting a medal in the men's swimming relay team, but im happy with the performance displayed by overall team SA
ReplyDeletewell weo got more medal that we had before but we did not get medals that we hoped to get we could not break our record of six medal as we only managed to get 6 medals agian but we should be greatful as South Africans as we did much better that the last olympic were we only came home with one medal well done team SA
ReplyDeletemy hope was on Caster for bring a gold medal but eventual he brings a silver in the final, i am not happy about her perfomance for me was a set up
ReplyDeleteIm confident and hopeful that South Africa is yet to receive other medals. I belive that we going to get 2 more gold medals and 1 more silver. South Africa has shown great sportsmenship,rugby,cricket,swimming are one of the sports that we are known to be good at worldwide.
ReplyDelete2012 was a year of success for South African team and they have done us proud...more medals means alot and they proved that there are plenty to come.
ReplyDeleteThey say together we can,devided we fall..which means if we support them wholeheartedly then it`s obvious we will make it. I wish all the best for all of them.There`s nothing demoralizing than when you don`t get support from anyone,so this is why we have to show great support.
ReplyDeleteI think we should have received more medals due to tough competition some didnt make it but they have tried their best, atleast we have seven medals,i would like to say well done SA.
ReplyDeleteunfotunatly we ddnt met the SASCOC's estimated medals of 12, but we dd very well compared to olympic 2008,although im still not satisfied with semenya's silver medal,she should've gt a gold not silver.
ReplyDeleteobviously we did not reach or cannot reach our aims of 12 medals through cheating and difficulties during the London Olympics...hope for better in the next olympics.
ReplyDeleteWe will obviously see more if SA invests more in sports.
ReplyDeleteWe have obtained more medals than other years but we can do better than that.
i think we not going to get more medal judging by this year performance is has really drop just like kazier chiefs
ReplyDeletemedals were won and our medalist came back home with their heads lifted high we are proud citezens of South Africa, at least our athlets did well if it was possible they would withdraw the millions they invested in soccer and inject them in the athletic south africa's account for the interests of athletics.
ReplyDeleteThe athletes did a great job I think. It doesn't matter how many medals we won, yes we could've gotten more but I'm satisfied with the few medals that we received. Afterall, it's better than 0 medals at the end of the day.
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