WeeklySA_AdminWHAT HAS CRISTIANO GOT ON HIS PLATE?
Asked to elaborate on what was on Ronaldo’s plate on the Friday night before their Newcastle game last weekend where the Portuguese striker went to score a hat-trick, Manchester United reserve goalkeeper Lee Grant said: “I’ll tell you one of his plates – he had several. One of them was quinoa, avocado and a couple of boiled eggs.
United’s squad stayed at the Hyatt Hotel in Manchester and at dinner the dessert selection included apple crumble and custard and chocolate brownies with cream. But Grant has revealed that none of the players dared to touch such sweet delights – and some even wanted to know what Ronaldo was eating before making their own selections.
It would seem Ronaldo is already forcing a change of eating habits at United, with the forward’s obsessive approach to living a healthy lifestyle cited as one of the factors behind his remarkable longevity and reasons he still remains one of the world’s best players at 36
CASTER SPRINTS TO SWISS FEDERAL COURT
The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has announced that it will be a third party in the appeal matter between 800m runner Caster Semenya and the Swiss Federal Supreme Court which will be heard at the European Court of Human Rights.Semenya is seeking to overturn a ruling by the Swiss Federal Supreme Court which upheld a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling to maintain World Athletics’ (previously known as International Association of Athletics Federation) change in competition eligibility rules for females in certain races. The regulations, known as the Difference of Sex Development (DSD) rules, bar female athletes who have what the athletics body calls “high levels of endogenous testosterone” from competing on the international stage in certain races – including Semenya’s favoured 800m competition – unless they reduce and maintain low blood testosterone levels.
Semenya has refused to do this and was effectively barred from defending her 2016 Rio Olympic title in Tokyo and her 2018 world championship after the rules came into effect in 2018. The commission said it will make written submissions to the European court by October 12, 2021-SAnews.gov
CRICKET JUSTICE DELAYED
Cricket South Africa’s Social Justice and Nation-Building (SJN) hearings are due to resume on October 18, seven weeks after they were initially supposed to, and more than three months after the process began. That means CSA won’t have the final report by ombudsman, advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, on September 30 as originally planned.
Those who have been adversely implicated in testimonies given between July 5 and August 6 will have an opportunity to exercise their right to reply in the second phase of the hearings. Those parties, and any others who wish to respond to allegations of racial discrimination, were originally given until August 18 to submit written affidavits. That deadline was subsequently extended thrice, to September 16. Several people, including Smith, national men’s head coach Mark Boucher and AB de Villiers, have made written submissions, which Ntsebeza will read over the course of the next month before the oral testimonies begin. The other implication of the extension is likely to be the cost. CSA is believed to have budgeted R5 million for the initial process, which includes the ombudsman’s fees as well as a daily rate for the legal counsel who have been present at the hearings. This is expected to go up.
FEMALE BOXER DIES
Welterweight Jeanette Zacarias Zapata has died from injuries suffered after her knockout loss to Marie Pier Houlento in Montreal, Canada, two weeks ago. She passed out in the ring after the fight was stopped in the fourth round and spent some time in hospital in an induced coma but never regained consciousness. She was 18-years-old.
In SA Phindile Mwelase is one female boxer to die after sustaining injuries in the ring 15 days after he collapsed in the ring.
