After historic win a new chapter beckons SA surfing med...
Just past 9.30pm at Tokyo’s Olympic village, professional surfer Bianca Buitendag is traipsing around her hotel, looking for a quiet place to be interviewed. “All my roommates are asleep,” she whispers. “I’m trying to find a spot where I won’t disturb them.” Silver medalist Bianca Buitendag of South Africa reacts after the Women’s semifinal of the Surfing events of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games at the Tsurigasaki Surfing? Beach in Ichinomiya, Japan, 27 July 2021. (Photo: EPA-EFE/NIC BOTHMA) Buitendag is sharing a unit with two triathletes, a canoeist, a javelin thrower an...
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