Sprinter Anaso Jobodwana was the noticeable omission from the Commonwealth Games squad named in Johannesburg on Tuesday. But the world championship 200m bronze medallist from 2015 was likely to be added once the men’s 4x100m relay team had been finalised‚ South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) president Gideon Sam said. Jobodwana is also likely to compete in at least the 200m individual competition. Sam is not targeting specific medals but instead wants SA to return to fifth on the medals table at the 2018 edition to be held at Gold Coast in Australia. SA was fifth in Kuala Lumpur 1998‚ Melbourne 2006 and Delhi 2010‚ but slipped to seventh at Glasgow 2014. That will take several gold medals. Four years ago, SA’s 13 medals — two off the 15 of fifth-placed India — came from athletics (3)‚ swimming (3)‚ lawn bowls (5)‚ rugby sevens (1) and judo (1). SA’s top hopes for gold lie with Chad le Clos‚ Caster Semenya‚ Luvo Manyonga‚ Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio in the wom...
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