SA’s athletes come bearing life’s lessons

Johannesburg - In a way, the Proteas faltering in their test series against England and the Lions not winning the Super Rugby title weren’t entirely bad things.

The parochial among us may rail against that, but having two of our team sports from the so-called big three (soccer, cricket and rugby) misfire gave us an opportunity to take a closer look at South Africa’s athletes campaigning at the IAAF World Championships in London.

At the time of writing, Team SA was lying third on the medals table, behind the US and Kenya, with two golds (Luvo Manyonga and Wayde van Niekerk), a silver (Van Niekerk) and two bronzes (Ruswahl Samaai and Caster Semenya in the 1 500m).