Three years ago, Matt Smith had never strapped on a pair of cross-country skis. On Friday, the South African lined up alongside the world’s best at the Winter Olympics, driven by a belief that it is never too late to do something you love and a desire to put the sport on the map back home.

South Africa is making history with its largest‑ever Winter Olympics team at Milano Cortina 2026. Seventeen‑year‑old Thomas Weir is one of two teens in the squa

With no official South African media rights holder for the Winter Olympics, sports fans have been left to find alternative (illegal) viewing options.

Here's how to keep track of Mzansi's representatives as they take fans along on their adventures, from the canteen, to the kit reveals, and even the laundry room at the athlete's village. Also, the actual Olympics.

Athletes from around the world are in the Italian Alps for the opening of the 2026 Winter Olympics on Friday - including 13 sportspeople from eight African countries. Though the continent isn't associated with winter sports,

Three years after being forced to undergo gender tests, South Africa's 21-year-old Caster Semenya finally ran her first Olympic event Wednesday morning, finishing her 800-meter heat in 2 minutes, 71 seconds. She finished just behind the 2:00.47 run by ...

Joan Harrison, who won the women’s 100-meter backstroke at the 1952 Olympics for South Africa, has died on May 20 at age 89. Harrison, who went by her married name Joan Breetzke late in life, was born in East London, South Africa. She came from an ...

Budget cuts to South African sport federations are threatening the country's Olympic ambitions. Swimming South Africa Operations Manager, Mafata Modutoane, says funding reductions have delayed the rollout of Project 350, an initiative aimed at preparing 350 South African athletes for the Olympic Games in two years.