{"id":20618,"date":"2013-06-24T22:56:33","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/health-and-sporting-battles-in-the-news\/"},"modified":"2013-06-24T22:56:33","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T20:56:33","slug":"health-and-sporting-battles-in-the-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/health-and-sporting-battles-in-the-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Health and sporting battles in the news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=6050\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6050\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6050 \" alt=\"Nelson Mandela hands the Webb Ellis trophy to Francois Pienaar in 1995. Photo: Getty Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/c2d5d_Mandela-and-Pienaar-RWC-1995.jpg\" width=\"283\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nelson Mandela hands the Webb Ellis trophy to Francois Pienaar in 1995. Photo: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>South African golfer Ernie Els (43) became the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysport24.co.za\/ernie-els-oldest-winner-of-bmw-international-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">oldest winner of the BMW International Open<\/a> on Sunday. The defending champion said it gave him confidence ahead of the Open Championship at Muirfield in July.<\/p>\n<p>Also on Sunday, it was Durban\u2019s turn to host the SPAR Women\u2019s Challenge. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysport24.co.za\/track-runner-becomes-queen-of-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mapaseka Makhanya came out on top<\/a>, which puts her in pole position on the SPAR Grand Prix table.<\/p>\n<p>Before the opening rounds of Wimbledon on Monday, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysport24.co.za\/andy-murray-reveals-big-wish-ahead-of-wimbledon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Murray said<\/a> he would happily give up Centre Court glory if it meant his best friend, Ross Hutchins, could win his battle with Hodgkin\u2019s Lymphoma.<\/p>\n<p>The Tour de France starts on Saturday and former winner Jan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mysport24.co.za\/1997-tour-de-france-winner-ullrich-admits-to-blood-doping\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ullrich has now also admitted<\/a> to blood-doping with doctor Eufemiano Fuentes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/mandela-critical-on-18th-anniversary-of-world-cup\/\" target=\"_blank\">Today marks the 18th anniversary<\/a> of when former president Nelson Mandela walked onto the Ellis Park field to celebrate the Springboks\u2019 World Cup victory. As we remember this triumph, our thoughts are with him as he battles ill health.<\/p>\n<p>High Five,<br \/>\nEd<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/track-runner-becomes-queen-of-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/c2d5d_179346505_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/track-runner-becomes-queen-of-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">Track runner becomes queen of the road<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.velonation.com\/News\/ID\/14821\/Jan-Ullrich-admits-to-doping-with-Fuentes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/c2d5d_179090039_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.velonation.com\/News\/ID\/14821\/Jan-Ullrich-admits-to-doping-with-Fuentes.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Jan Ullrich admits to doping with Fuentes<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/scotsol\/homepage\/news\/4980947\/Only-thing-bigger-than-Wimbledon-is-pal-winning-cancer-fight.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/c2d5d_179285366_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thescottishsun.co.uk\/scotsol\/homepage\/news\/4980947\/Only-thing-bigger-than-Wimbledon-is-pal-winning-cancer-fight.html\" target=\"_blank\">Only thing bigger than Wimbledon is pal winning cancer fight<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/c2d5d_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson Mandela hands the Webb Ellis trophy to Francois Pienaar in 1995. Photo: Getty Images South African golfer Ernie Els (43) became the oldest winner of the BMW International Open on Sunday. The defending champion said it gave him confidence ahead of the Open Championship at Muirfield in July. Also on Sunday, it was Durban\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-20618","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}