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Xylon van Eyck
Philippe Gilbert could do no wrong in 2011. He undeniably enjoyed the most successful year of his career, which eventually ended with 18 victories. Winning a race nearly every month of the season, he embarrassed other members of the peloton from Febr... |
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Views: 269 | 1 Comment » | posted on Tuesday, January 10th, 2012 | Tags: BMC racing, cycling, philippe gilbert, racing, tour de france
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Greg Hurvitz
As so excellently written, Adam Wakefield has looked into 2011 and summed up for us all the poignant moments and prestigious awards handed out to very deserving recipients. It's a wonderful article and I urge you to read it whilst on this site.
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Views: 258 | 1 Comment » | posted on Friday, December 23rd, 2011 | Tags: none
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Greg Hurvitz
I have read and listened with great worry over the last two months at the threat which Test cricket is perceivably under -- made even more flamboyant by a media contingent keen to increase the content in their publications, on the Twitter pages and o... |
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Views: 241 | No Comments » | posted on Monday, November 28th, 2011 | Tags: Test cricket
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Greg Hurvitz
I have been watching very closely the ability of sports "managers" getting worse and worse. To my mind pops Boxing SA, Athletics SA, rugby at most times has had some question hanging over it although not in the last eight or so years, SA football and... |
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Views: 228 | 1 Comment » | posted on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011 | Tags: Caster Semenya, Cricket SA, Gerald Majola, Leonard Chuene, Mtutuzeli Nyoka, Safa
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Adam Wakefield
SuperSport is purportedly one of the best and largest sports broadcasters in the world. Seven channels, slick production value, a 24-hour news channel no longer reliant on foreign broadcasters and an infrastructure as big as any other major sports br... |
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Views: 1138 | 5 Comments » | posted on Thursday, October 6th, 2011 | Tags: media, peter davies, PR, rugby world cup, south africa, SuperSport
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Greg Hurvitz
Have we lost our way in school sport, to a large extent I believe we have. Why? I will attempt to illustrate why.I have for many years heard this phrase, high performance, it worried me then and it still does. How can we slot a 14-year-old into a hig... |
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Views: 223 | No Comments » | posted on Sunday, October 2nd, 2011 | Tags: coach, coaching
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Gavin Moffat
The other side of the fence was where I ended up at this weekend's 5150, which is a standard distance triathlon, part of the IronMan stable. Not where I wanted to be. I wanted to be racking my bike, pulling on my wetsuit and generally partaking. But ... |
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Views: 172 | No Comments » | posted on Monday, August 15th, 2011 | Tags: 5150, Bela Bela, bravado, cycling, training interruptus, triathlon
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Greg Hurvitz
Looking at Sports Leader and all other sports-related websites we do not see enough of the poorly defined "Cinderella" sports , which I would define as netball, hockey and perhaps swimming.
For some reason these sports attract a low degree of spo... |
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Views: 128 | 2 Comments » | posted on Wednesday, July 13th, 2011 | Tags: none
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Gavin Moffat
While cycling during the past week I realised that so many of us err in our ways. Our habits need to be changed or amended. If we wish to improve our lot with our fellow road users then we need to take immediate action. Only if we do this will we avo... |
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Views: 84 | No Comments » | posted on Tuesday, July 12th, 2011 | Tags: 5150, 94.7, behaviour, cycling, niceties, rules, sarcasm
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