🎉 HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JONTY RHODES 🇿🇦 Ask any cricket fan over forty to name the greatest piece of fielding they have ever seen, and most will describe the same six seconds: a South African going horizontal through the air, ball in one outstretched hand, a Pakistani batsman turning back a fraction too late. They will get the score wrong. They will forget who was bowling. They will never forget the shape of that dive. It belongs to Jonty Rhodes, born in Pietermaritzburg on 27 July 1969, who turns 57 today. 🎂🏏 Happy birthday, Jonty. From all of us at Just Plain Sport — for every kid still practising that dive on a back lawn somewhere, you started something that still hasn’t stopped. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #JontyRhodes #Proteas #Cricket #Birthday #JustPlainSport

🥇 COETZÉ STRIKES SECOND GLASGOW GOLD IN 24 HOURS 🏊🇿🇦 Pieter Coetzé has done it again. Less than 24 hours after breaking the Commonwealth Games record to win 50m backstroke gold, the 22 year old backed it up with another Games record and another title, this time over 200m, at Tollcross on Sunday night. ⸻ 🗣️ "Pieter didn't come to Glasgow to mess around. He came for the gold!" – Jay ⸻ 🎙 FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #PieterCoetze #CommonwealthGames2026 #southafrica #Swimming #JustPlainSport 🎙️

🥈 AIMEE CANNY STORMS TO 100M BREASTSTROKE SILVER 🏊🇿🇦 Aimee Canny hit the wall first off the turn in Glasgow, and for 75 metres of the women's 100m breaststroke final, it looked like South Africa had another champion. Angharad Evans had other ideas. Racing out of lane five at Tollcross International Swimming Centre on Sunday night, Canny went out hard, splitting 30.67 at the 50m mark to lead the field into the second length. It was the kind of front-half swim that puts a home crowd on edge. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #AimeeCanny #Swimming #CommonwealthGames #JustPlainSport

🇿🇦🔥 CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN NETBALL WOMEN ON BACK-TO-BACK VICTORIES AT THE COMMONWEALTH GAMES 🎉 👏🏻 They won in a record score against Tonga of 96-42 and 65-44 against Malawi so far in the tournament. #CommonwealthGames #SouthAfrica #Glasgow2026

🇿🇦 MAPIMPI – THE BOY WITH NO FAMILY PHOTO WHO WON A WORLD CUP 🎉 There are wingers who chase a reputation someone else built for them. And then there are those who build the entire thing themselves, with nobody standing behind them to hand it down. Makazole Mapimpi belongs firmly in the second category. Born on 26 July 1990, in Tsholomnqa, Eastern Cape, he turns 36 today. Happy 36th Birthday, Makazole. From all of us at Just Plain Sport — the boy with no family photo built one anyway, and it starts with his own name on it. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #MakazoleMapimpi #Springboks #RugbyWorldCup #JustPlainSport

🥇 COETZÉ WINS 50M BACKSTROKE GOLD IN 24.18 🏊🇿🇦 Pieter Coetzé does not do things by half measures. On Saturday night at Tollcross, the 22-year-old lowered his own Commonwealth Games record for the third time in as many swims this week, touching in 24.18 to claim gold in the men's 50m backstroke. Four years after leaving Birmingham with silver in this event, he made sure this time his hand hit the wall first. ⸻ 🗣️ "Three Games records in three swims and he still had more in the tank. Congrats on your 50m Gold, Pieter!" – 🎙️Jay ⸻ 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #PieterCoetze #CommonwealthGames2026 #TeamSA #Glasgow2026 #JustPlainSport

🥇 CHAD LE CLOS BREAKS COMMONWEALTH GAMES MEDAL RECORD 🏊🇿🇦 Chad le Clos stands alone. Nineteen medals, five Games, sixteen years — and on Friday night in Glasgow, the kid from Durban became the most decorated male athlete in Commonwealth Games history with a bronze medal that meant more to him than most of his golds. 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #ChadLeClos #CommonwealthGames2026 #TeamSA #SASwimming #JustPlainSport

🦈 NONU: ALL BLACKS LEGEND JOINS SHARKS AS MENTOR 🏉🇿🇦 Ma'a Nonu is walking into a Durban changeroom as a Shark. The Sharks confirmed on Saturday that the 44-year-old, two-time World Cup winner has signed a short-term deal, arriving in a mentorship and leadership capacity rather than as a like-for-like squad addition. It's a move built around what he can pass on, not what he can still produce on matchday. “You don’t get a legend like Ma’a Nonu walking into your changeroom without something rubbing off on every young player in that squad!” – 🎙️Jay 🎙️ FULL STORY on JustPlainSport .com #MaaNonu #Sharks #AllBlacks #SouthAfricanRugby #JustPlainSport