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It Ain't Over till It's Over

It Ain't Over till It's Over

Aug 22, 2016
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South Africans aren't done yet.

Wayde van Niekerk

Four years ago, I wrote the piece below for the Mercury, a daily newspaper in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa.

It was written in the afterglow of Chad le Clos's defeat of Michael Phelps to win his first Olympic gold, and Ernie Els's stirring come-from-behind victory in golf's British Open.

Re-reading this, after the inspirationa…

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