The gold medal the South African men's 4x100m relay team won at the World Relay Championships in Poland is the start of things to come. More SA teams will medal in the future.

Athletics South Africa (ASA) relay team manager, Danie Cornelius, who is the Head of Programme at TuksAthletics is the one to make the bold prediction.

Guest 1 on the line – Athletics South Africa (ASA) relay team manager, Danie Cornelius

Guest on the line - Virginia Mabaso - Development Coordinator for rowing South Africa (2 times sports administrator of the year 2015 and 2018. 2020 Gsport awards women of the year)

Berg River canoe marathon while his second-half Nikki Birkett won the women’s race… But in dramatic fashion. They’re the first husband and wife paddlers to win the Berg title.

Andy grabbed a two minute lead on the second stage when Hank McGregor made an error in a tree block and managed to retain that advantage for the remainder of the race, despite McGregor continually trying to claw back into the contest.

Guest 1 on the line – Andy Birkett and Nikki Birkett - Canoe Marathon athletes

Hugo Broos on Tuesday trimmed eight players from his Bafana Bafana squad to play Zimbabwean and Ghana in 2022 Fifa World Cup qualifiers at the beginning of September.

South Africa will play Zimbabwe in Harare on September 3 and Ghana at FNB Stadium on September 6, and Broos initially named a youthful preliminary 31-man squad last week, but has now cut it to 23.

Guest on the line – Dr Metji Makgoba –Independent soccer analyst

As the international paddling season continues, the South African stand-up paddling team is set to take part in the ICF SUP World Championships in Balatonfured, Hungary, that will be taking place from 9 - 12 September 2021.

Team South Africa will travel to Europe for the competition with a squad of nine paddlers. Four of the paddlers will be taking part in the senior world championships and five paddlers in the Masters categories.

“Our national team is looking strong with Chiara Vorster competing in the Junior Girls category, Chelsea van Rooyen in Open Women and Gareth Mountain and Sinda Simoni in the Open Men category,” president of SUP SA Anja Burger said.

Guest on the line - president of SUP SA  -Anja Burger

South African cricketers don’t have much experience of playing in major finals for the national team.

And that’s a gender-neutral statement with both the men’s and women’s teams having suffered agonising World Cup semi-final defeats over the years.It has never been a question of talent or skill, but rather whether they possessed the mental strength to perform under pressure when the lights were at its brightest.

But it’s the women that are looking to change that narrative with their performances for their respective franchises around the world over the last year. Proteas fast bowler Shabnim Ismail, playing for the Sydney Thunder, set the ball rolling when she became the first overseas player – male or female - to be named Player of the Match in Australia’s Big Bash League final in December.

Guest on the line: Dinesha Devnarain - head coach of both the South African Women's Under-19 side and the Women's National Academy

Guest - Charlene Pienaar - has enjoyed a sensational year and a debut SADGA Provincial Challenge appearance along with a runner-up finish at the Ekurhuleni Championship has the talented Visually-Impaired golfer dreaming of national colours

Guest - Chris Wood - a right-arm amputee is a stalwart of South African Disabled Golf and has been involved with the association for a number of years.

Guest – Calvin Fiki –South African Bodybuilder

Guest 1 on the line – the founder of the QwaQwa Leopards rugby club: Kenneth Tshabalala