Wayde van Niekerk looks on positive side after Games postponement
25 March 2020 - 16:25
Cape Town — Olympic 400m champion Wayde van Niekerk says that while the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Games due to the coronavirus outbreak was a “downer” the delay will give him time to regain full fitness after a long period on the sidelines due to injury.
The 27-year-old was one of the standout performers of the 2016 Rio Games where he stormed to gold in a world record time of 43.03s, smashing the previous mark of 43.18s set by Michael Johnson in 1999...
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