00:00Well, now it's been another eventful Monday of Olympic action for Africa's athletes and
00:05joining me now from Johannesburg, South Africa, is our resident sports guru and journalist
00:09Mbule Lutinta to go over all that action.
00:12South African swimming sensation Tatiana Smith.
00:16We cannot start with anything else but her gold, Africa's first gold in these Olympic
00:21Games.
00:22My favorite part is that some people may not know her story.
00:25It's that she actually said, I had fallen out of love with swimming.
00:28She considered not swimming at all in these Olympics.
00:31And Tatiana now is on the brink of emulating, of course, her hero and one of our very first
00:37gold medalists post-apartheid, of course, Penny Haynes, the only woman to have ever
00:41won the 100 meter and 200 meter breaststroke.
00:44Tatiana holds the 200 already from Tokyo.
00:47She's capable now of becoming the second woman of all time to win the 100 and 200.
00:52Extremely proud of her South Africa's first gold.
00:54Oh, man, we are going absolutely crazy here in Johannesburg.
00:57I'm sure Mbule Lutinta really is magnificent because there was a lot of heart and mouth
01:02moments in the swimming.
01:04We didn't see Peter Kutzer quite deliver like we hoped, but we certainly are, I mean, proud
01:10as Africans to see in the pool Tatiana doing what we hoped and expected to do.
01:16But now talking of South Africa, Alan Hathaway has done something which wasn't maybe quite
01:22expected and that was to get a bronze medal in the mountain bike cross country.
01:26Absolutely incredible.
01:27He's been in red hot form on the world racing scene this year.
01:30He becomes Africa's very first mountain bike cross country medalist ever, by the way.
01:36So shout out to him blazing the trail there.
01:38The 28-year-old from Hillcrest, absolutely sensational.
01:41Remember, two seconds off the silver medal, a quite incredible performance from the 28-year-old.
01:46And he is now entering his peak at the age of 28.
01:48We can expect him to really be pushing for the gold medal in LA in 2028.
01:53Absolutely incredible.
01:54Another bronze, of course, for Africa at large.
01:56And South Africa's first cycling medal since the 1950s in the Olympics.
02:01There's nowhere else to end, though, than with Nigeria's women's basketball team, their
02:06first victory in 20 years.
02:09And what an occasion to do it.
02:11You know, my favorite thing about these human beings that we call Olympians, here's where
02:15they're different to us.
02:16Some adversity at the beginning, some controversy.
02:19If you didn't see it, Nigeria's women being denied, of course, entrance onto their own
02:23boat to parade with their team at the beginning.
02:26But they said, you know what?
02:27That doesn't matter.
02:28We've got mental fortitude.
02:29We're not just human beings.
02:30We are Olympians.
02:31We are the peak of performance.
02:32They went on as the 12th-ranked team in the world to shock the world.
02:36The third team in the world, Australia, 75-62, Ezine Kalu with 19 points there, 17 of those
02:42coming in the first half.
02:43A quite incredible performance.
02:45And those Nigerian women, if you haven't seen the highlights, I urge everybody at home to
02:48jump on YouTube and go and see as they went absolutely ballistic at the end, representing
02:53the wonderful country of Nigeria and Africa at large.
02:56Incredible, incredible result.
02:58And just touching on the result of yesterday, of Sunday, it was South Sudan which caused
03:04an upset in the basketball, if we can cast our minds back.
03:06So Africa really dominating on the court.
03:09Absolutely.
03:10I think South Sudan, of course, the youngest country in Africa, and for them to be at their
03:14debut Olympics, they've got an incredibly tough group.
03:18We saw them push America to just one point, the great USA team, the dream team, reincarnate,
03:23to just that one point, LeBron James at the end having to do what he did there.
03:27They've absolutely decimated Puerto Rico on the weekend.
03:30And now they will face MVP, of course, from the NBA, Nikola Jokic and his Serbian team.
03:35If they beat them, that is almost a guarantee to go through to the next round, which would
03:39be nigh on an absolute miracle.
03:41The South Sudanese doing an incredible job.
03:43And remember what they've done really, really well, is that they've taken a former Duke
03:48and Bulls player, Lewald Dang, to be their president.
03:52So South Sudan doing the business for Africa.
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