Tag: Comrades

OPINION: SA’s most popular race, the Comrades Marathon, belongs to nobody

Five Comrades Marathon Association board members have handed in their resignations. The…

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Comrades board member suspended for ‘racist’ remarks

The decision comes just two days after race director Ann Ashworth was…

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Former Comrades winner Ann Ashworth sacked as race director

Ashworth had been under fire for most of her tenure, with an…

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Fordyce’s Comrades tales: Breaking down the race with Zola Budd

“Jissie dis ver,” (Jeez it’s far) Zola Budd muttered under her breath…

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Five things to know about the 2023 Comrades Marathon

The 96th edition of the Comrades Marathon, South Africa’s oldest road running…

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WATCH: Film celebrating 100 years of the Comrades Marathon releases soon

By Citizen Reporter SuperSport will this week premiere a film celebrating 100…

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Gerda Steyn likely to shatter ‘unbreakable’ Comrades record

Due to the unpredictability of races held over extreme distances, suggesting that…

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Fordyce’s Comrades tales: Take a lesson from Alan Robb and ‘just get on with it’

Glued into one of my old scrapbooks are some faded dog-eared newspaper…

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Shorter distance races need to close the gap on Comrades prize purse

With the Comrades Marathon having announced a massive prize purse for this…

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The demand for more Comrades prize money is greedy and lazy

It's a debate that's been raging for a few years, and though…

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