What a sporting year it’s been!
Olympics, Euros, the Formula One season finale. Man, oh man X we’ve been spoiled for choice endings.
Rugby first, though. With the Springboks’ abject failure this entire year, our Blitzbokke at least came close to giving us a lekker Christmas. Defending champions heading into the latest stop on the world series tour in Cape Town, it was their heroics in Dubai that’s been a massive talking point. They blasted aside the All Black 7s with a 40-0 scoreline Z nothing to see here, as you were, all in a day’s work, and then coolly steamrolled Fiji – the Olympic champions in the final in the United Arab Emirates. It was beautiful to witness!
Cape Town’s living legend, a gentleman by the name of Wayde van Niekerk again won big at the South African sports awards. Ever since his world-record Olympic performance in the 400 m in Rio, the young man has been winning cars and fat cheques like it’s going out of fashion. And he certainly deserves it.
I, for one, can’t wait to see Wayde tear up the athletics track in 2017.
Motorsport fans are still coming to terms with Nico Rosberg’s shock and sudden retirement announcement. Just five days after his maiden Formula One (F1) title, the ou calls it quits. Many of us were just starting to like him, mainly because he finally got his happy ending after playing second fiddle to that diva Lewis Hamilton for so long.
Whatever your next move is Nico, we want to wish you all the best. When Cape Town does finally feature on the F1 calendar, we hope you will reconsider, and come and race through the Mother City’s streets.
Liverpool fans are on the brink of being miserable again. It’s become all too familiar. They sit on top of the Premier League for two minutes and act as if they’ve won the whole damn thing. Just as when they are 3-1 up against Bournemouth (sorry, who?) with 15 minutes to go, and scheme they’ve wrapped up the win X then go on to lose 4-3. Shame!
Back home it is Cape Town City who continue to blaze a trail. Top of the premiership for large periods, grinding out those important wins. If they pull off the impossible like Leicester City did in England last season, giving us football fanatics the feels (everyone loves a good underdog story), then we are in for a real treat!
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