{"id":11510,"date":"2012-06-15T11:23:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:23:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/olympics-two-men-in-a-boat-bridge-south-africa-race-gap\/"},"modified":"2012-06-15T11:23:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-15T09:23:21","slug":"olympics-two-men-in-a-boat-bridge-south-africa-race-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-two-men-in-a-boat-bridge-south-africa-race-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Two men in a boat bridge South Africa race gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, June 15<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; One is white and the<br \/>\noffspring of a South African yachting great. The other is black<br \/>\nand hails from a shantytown set up by the defunct apartheid<br \/>\nregime as a ghetto.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Together, Roger Hudson and Asenathi Jim are the South<br \/>\nAfrican entry for the two-man 470 sailing event at the London<br \/>\nOlympics. They see themselves as symbols of the multi-racial<br \/>\ncountry former President Nelson Mandela was trying to forge.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are going to be a light in South Africa &#8211; a good<br \/>\ncombination in and out of the water,&#8221; Jim told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two are long shots for medals, having only been together<br \/>\nfor about 18 months in an event where the world&#8217;s top pairs have<br \/>\nusually been sailing partners for at least a decade.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The two are the unlikeliest of shipmates.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hudson, now in his early 30s, grew up in the world of<br \/>\nsailing, long associated with affluence. Jim, 20, comes from the<br \/>\nRed Hill township overlooking the waters near Cape Town, a place<br \/>\nwhose streets of broken asphalt are a world away from the<br \/>\npristine yacht clubs dotting the coast.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a teen, Jim joined the Izivungu Sailing School, aimed at<br \/>\nbuilding self-esteem and sailing skills among the legions of<br \/>\npoor black youth whose lives have improved little since<br \/>\nwhite-minority apartheid rule ended in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jim, who goes by the nickname &#8220;squirrel&#8221;, took to the water<br \/>\nlike a duck, moving into the crew assembled by RaceAhead, set up<br \/>\nby Roger Hudson and his father David Hudson, who represented<br \/>\nSouth Africa at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics and managed the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s team at the 1996 Atlanta Games.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, June 15 (Reuters) &#8211; One is white and the offspring of a South African yachting great. The other is black and hails from a shantytown set up by the defunct apartheid regime as a ghetto. 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