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Thanks to South Africa’s world-class capacity to detect & track viruses & infections, developed largely through the our response to HIV, we’re once again in the spotlight for identifying & managing a small outbreak. Few countries are as transparent about this type of thing.

Do you guys think you’ll still be tweeting when you’re 40?

I ran 42KM lmao, never again, next time I will do 56KM.

It isn't possible to run sub-2 hour marathons in normal shoes, even the type of running shoes from 10 years ago. The athletes are the best in the world, but sub 2 hours is a technological achievement, not an athletic one.

Nike spent ten years trying to break the 2-hour marathon. They named a project after it. They built special shoes. They paid the greatest marathoner alive to chase it. Yesterday, a Kenyan runner finally did it in 1:59:30, wearing Adidas. Sabastian Sawe used to be a pacemaker. A pacemaker is the kind of runner you hire to set the speed for the first few miles of a race and then drop out before the finish. In January 2022, Sawe got booked to do exactly that at a half-marathon in Spain. He'd never raced more than three miles in his life. He stayed in for the full 13 and won the whole thing. Adidas signed him not long after. Four years later, he became the first human ever to run an official marathon under 2 hours. Nike, meanwhile, started this whole project in 2016 with a public goal called "Breaking2." They paid for the shoes, the pacemakers, the science labs, and Eliud Kipchoge himself. Kipchoge ran 1:59:40 in Vienna in 2019, but the event was a closed-course exhibition with rotating pacemakers and a pace car projecting a green laser line onto the road. The sport's governing body never recognized it as a real race. It didn't count. Then Nike's running business cratered. Digital sales fell 26% in one quarter. Their share of footwear sold at Dick's Sporting Goods went from 39% to 32% in five months. On Running grew from $330 million to $1.8 billion between 2020 and 2025. Hoka nearly quadrupled. Roger Federer left Nike for On. Nike's board fired the CEO in October 2024. Adidas spent the same period building a better shoe. The new Adizero Adios Pro Evo 3 took three years to develop. It weighs 97 grams, about 3.4 ounces, lighter than a deck of cards. A Wall Street Journal-cited study found that wearing a shoe 3.5 ounces lighter saves a runner around 57 seconds across a marathon. Sawe beat the third-place finisher by 58 seconds. Adidas also did something Nike never did for Kipchoge. They wrote a $50,000 check to the official anti-doping body for track and field, asking it to test Sawe more aggressively than any other runner alive. He got tested 25 times in the two months before last year's Berlin Marathon, and Adidas signed up to fund this for the length of his contract. The logic: the moment Sawe ran a marathon this fast, the world was going to ask if he cheated, especially after his countrywoman Ruth Chepngetich got a 3-year doping ban in 2025. Adidas got out ahead of it. The shoe retails at $500 and is barely available. Adidas's Adizero shoes won half of all major marathon races in 2024. Yesterday in London, four of the top five finishers wore the same Adidas shoe. Yomif Kejelcha crossed the line 11 seconds after Sawe and also broke 2 hours. The top three runners all beat the previous world record. Nike's only response was an Instagram post. Three sentences long: "The clock has been reset. There is no finish line." That was their entire public reaction to losing a 10-year moonshot to their biggest rival.

[DRUG TRAFFICKER ARRESTED WITH 60KG OF KHAT] It has been a busy long weekend for Police at OR Tambo International Airport(ORTIA), with significant breakthroughs in the figh against drug trafficking. In the latest drug bust, police intercepted a Netherlands national with 60kg of KHAT concealed in his luggage. The drug trafficker was set to take-off to London on Sunday morning when he was intercepted at the Airport. His luggage was inspected and 60kg of khat was found concealed inside. This is less than 24 hours after the arrest of a Brazilian national found with cocaine worth an estimated R8.7 million at the same airport. The latest arrests demonstrates the vigilance and heightened operations by SAPS working closely with ACSA security, BMA officials, SARS customs at ports of entry. The back to back successes in intercepting drug traffickers underscores the country's firm stance against transnational organised crime and law enforcements commitment to safeguarding South Africa’s borders. The drug mule is expected to appear before the Kempton Park Magistrate's Court this week on charges relating to drug trafficking.

See why we need woman in our lives?

These are the types of jobs your village people shouldn’t know you do. Cause you gonna get eaten by a shark on your first month that has never ate anyone in years.

Kagiso Rabada in 4th over - all 6 deliveries clocked over 150kmph: 153kmph. 151kmph. 154kmph. 152kmph. 152kmph. 151kmph.