The lads’s street biking, males’s golf, males’s 100m sprints, girls’s rowing and ladies’s hockey are all on the menu for Group SA on the Paris Olympics on Saturday.
SATURDAY ACTION TIMES FOR TEAM SA AT THE OLYMPICS:
ATHLETICS
Males’s 1500m repechage (7.15pm): Tshepo Tshite
Males’s 1500m repechage (7.26pm): Ryan Mphahlele
Males’s 100m, first spherical, heats: Shaun Maswangani, Benjamin Richardson, Akani Simbine
CYCLING
Males’s street race (11am): Ryan Gibbons
GOLF
Males’s Particular person, third spherical
10.11am: Christiaan Bezuidenhout
12.06pm: Erik van Rooyen
HOCKEY
Ladies’s Pool B (1.15pm): Group SA vs United States
ROWING
Ladies’s single scull, C closing (9.30am): Paige Badenhorst
Akani Simbine is without doubt one of the favourites within the males’s 100m dash, and there’s a huge further incentive that does make for fascinating studying.
Earlier this 12 months, World Athletics introduced it would grow to be the primary worldwide federation to award prize cash at an Olympics. Gold medal winners in every of the 48 athletics occasions in Paris will obtain $50 000 (R915 000).
The full prize fund of $2.4 million will come from the Worldwide Olympic Committee’s income share allocation that World Athletics receives each 4 years. Every particular person Olympic champion will obtain $50 000 and relay groups will obtain the identical quantity, to be shared among the many staff members.
Simbine might be in for an enormous pay day if he clinches gold
Together with the Group SA bonus of R400 000, if Simbine may additionally clinch the R915 000 up for grabs from World Athletics, he may in the end financial institution simply over R1.3 million if he grabs gold. That may be greater than triple some other single gold medal winner from Group SA who aren’t a part of the athletics staff.
Something lower than gold, although, and the athletics duo will solely be in line for the Sascoc incentives as World Athletics prize cash will solely be paid to the winners of silver and bronze medals from the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.