Akani Simbine once again unleashed a display of awesome power as he anchored South Africa to the 4x100m relay silver medal in Gold Coast on Saturday.Simbine‚ the 100m champion here at the Commonwealth Games‚ Henricho Bruintjies‚ the 100m silver medallist‚ Emile Erasmus and Anaso Jobodwana claimed SA’s first medal in this event since the last time the Games were held in Australia at Melbourne 2006.The 35.24sec national record the class of 2018 clocked was more than half-a-second quicker than the 38.98 Lee-Roy Newton‚ Leigh Julius‚ Snyman Prinsloo and Sherwin Vries ran for silver 12 years ago.Simbine was in fourth position when he took the baton from Anaso Jobodwana‚ trailing England’s Harry Aikines-Aryeetey‚ Yohan Blake of Jamaica and Australian Josh Clarke.He hit the turbo and overhauled two of them‚ but just didn’t have enough time to catch the Englishman."All that was in my head was‚ just get in front‚ just get in front‚ just catch. I remember seeing Blake coming up and I was like...
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