Recognising the best behind the business of sport at the 2019 Hollard Sport Industry Awards
26 November 2019 — The very best work behind the business of sport which spans marketing, PR, digital, sponsorship, advertising, community investment, social media and branding were awarded at the Hollard Sport Industry Awards, held in Johannesburg on Friday night. “We a …… read more
Can Johannes Continue SPAR Grand Prix Domination?
18 July 2019 — The 2019 SPAR Grand Prix Women’s 10km Challenge series has reached its midway point, with Namibia’s Helalia Johannes firmly in the lead after three wins in the first three races. Now, can she make it four from four in the Pretoria leg on 3 August, or w …… read more
SPAR Women’s Challenge Celebrates 30 Years in Durban
20 June 2019 — The oldest race in the SPAR Women’s Challenge series, the Durban race, turns 30 this year, and the organisers predict a fast and exciting race as part of the celebrations on Sunday 23 June.… read more
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Hoff… Still Flying in his 40s
“If I want to be competitive, I need to be running in a group like that. I am the ‘Madala’ in the group, but I know I will still be giving the youngsters a run for their money. And it will be good for me to train at that pace again.” – Living legend Shadrack Hoff on his plans to enter the veteran category in the World Marathon Majors next…
Moab’s Desert Sands
“In South Africa we are not used to anything like the countryside we went through on the Moab. It was canyons, desert, single track, and more. The closest we have to it in this part of the world is maybe the Augrabies and Fish River Canyon races, but nothing remotely close to the scale that the Moab is.” – Trail star Bennie Roux describes his experience running the 383km Moab…
Lisa’s Healing Journey
“I literally felt as though I had been given a death sentence, not from the leukaemia, but because I felt there was no possibility I could survive that amount of chemo, which would also destroy my immune system. I felt so disempowered, and the fact that I would lose my hair really upset me. I felt as though I would lose my identity.” – Thankfully, the Lisa Fernandez story has…
Ultimate Ultra Trail
“The second night I also started having extremely vivid, sleep-deprived hallucinations… some were so real, I could actually hear them, before realising they weren’t actually there when I got a bit closer or had a second look.” – South African trailer Dale Biagio came back from the Ultra-Trail Mont Blanc in France with interesting memories of running through exhaustion!