Letsile Tebogo’s rise from ‘hyperactive child’ to 100m silver
It seems that even when you are a World Championship silver medallist,…
At 91, Don King still longs for the spotlight. But it is shining elsewhere
The contrasting fortunes of the flamboyant promoter and his fellow boxing dealmaker,…
Janine van Wyk: a life of smashing down barriers in South Africa
Journey that started as her township team’s only white girl has taken…
I was unfit and flipping burgers when I decided to win the Olympics
Watching the super-heavyweight boxers during my lunch break at McDonald’s, I was…
‘She was unapologetically her’: Tori Bowie was a brilliant one of a kind
In the aftermath of the sprinter’s death at the age of just…
Mats, movies and medicine: The wrestler who ‘fell in love’ with acting
At just 20 years of age, Madusu Koroma already has plenty to…
‘People were going crazy’ – how the Super Eagles took the world by storm
A new documentary looks at what Nigeria’s success in the 1990s meant…
The Lioness running a ‘safe place’ for Kenya’s young female athletes
One of Kenya's leading athletes says she wants to create a "safe…
How Pele’s 1969 visit reshaped Nigerian football
In 1969, with a civil war raging, global football's biggest star arrived…
Christian Atsu: From fisherman’s son to ‘one in a million’ Black Star
The son of a fisherman, Christian Atsu never got caught in the…
