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Rio Paralympic Games, he took off on other adventures. He
summitted the Grand Paraiso in Italy, cycled the 1200 km
Carretera Austral in Patagonia in 2016, and completed the Race
Across America cycle in six days in 2017.
Returning to cycling in 2018, he won bronze in the C4 4k pursuit
in Brazil. Having been reclassified from C4 to C3, he won his first
gold in C3 Kilo at the 2020 UCI Para-cycling Track World
Championships in Milton, Canada, before adding gold in MC3
scratch race and MC3 omnium and silver in team sprint and MC3
individual pursuit.
Fast forward to August 2021 and Jaco (35) is winning medals in
the Tokyo Paralympic Games in his debut Games. He set a world
record in the C3 3,000m individual pursuit to take the gold medal.
Within 24 hours he had won his second medal, taking bronze in
the C1-3 1000m time trial. His third medal was another gold, as
part of the mixed C1-5 750m team sprint in another world record
breaking time. Jaco is representing Great Britain in five events: the
C1-3 kilo, C3 individual pursuit, C3 time trial, C1-3 road race and
C1-5 mixed team sprint - he might win more medals by the time
the Games end on 5 September.
Jaco credits his military training as part of his success. In 2020 he
said, "It took some time to convince myself that everything would
be all right, there were times that I did wonder why I was still alive
and wished I was actually dead. But you recognise that there must
be some reason why you have survived."
He still wants to trek to the South Pole and attempt Mount Everest
again.
Jaco is in a long-term relationship with Kathryn Pringle.
Jaco is one of two South African-born wounded soldiers that
feature in the Canadian musician and photographer Bryan Adams'
book, Wounded: The Legacy of War. The other South African is
Rory Mackenzie from Krugersdorp.
The team last played in March 2021, against Zimbabwe. Some of
the players, including leg-spinner Rashid Khan and all-rounder
Mohammed Nabi, have been able to play in the T20 leagues in the
UK. Naveen Ul-Haq is the top wicket-taker in the T20 Blast in
England. Khan's family is stuck in Kabul, and Nabi is in Dubai.
HISTORIC AUCTION
The oldest property to be auctioned in South Africa was sold for
R52.25 million on 25 August 2021 - the buyer is based in Europe.
The online auction, via Zoom, of the 329-year-old Morgenhof
wine estate in Stellenbosch, was watched by more than 2500
people around the world.
Morgenhof was put on auction by Anne Cointreau, whose family
has produced wine, champagne and spirits in France since 1272.
Her great-grandfather Adolphe created the famous orange liqueur
that carries the family name, and her grandfather the Remy Martin
brand of cognac. She bought the estate in 1993, and is now
returning to France to spend her retirement with her extended
family.
The estate, dating back to 1692, traces its wine-making history
back to the French Huguenots who arrived in the Cape in the
1680s. The manor house was restored and includes five bedrooms,
five bathrooms, a lounge, dining room, kitchen, wrap-around open
terrace, and a splash pool. A second manor house is a two-storey
Cape Dutch style building with four bedrooms, attached staff
quarters and a swimming pool. There is also a restaurant, wedding
chapel, conference venue, bistro and coffee shop on the estate.
COACH LANCE IN KABUL
Lance (Zulu) Klusener, the former Proteas all-rounder, is currently
Afghanistan’s national cricket coach. He left Kabul a few days
before the city was taken over earlier this month. The team had
been in training camp in Kabul preparing for a One-Day series
against Pakistan, which was due to be hosted in Sri Lanka in
September, but has now been postponed. This would have been
part of the team’s preparations ahead of the ICC T20 World Cup in
late October in the UAE. Afghanistan earned direct entry into the
T20 World Cup and is drawn in Group 2 with Pakistan, India and
New Zealand. Now they have to wait and see what happens with
the Afghanistan Cricket Board.
Lance was appointed the head coach in 2019. While in
Afghanistan his daily commutes between his hotel and Kabul
International Cricket Stadium was in a bulletproof car. Another
former Proteas player, batsman Hylton Ackerman, was recently
replaced as Afghanistan’s batting coach.
HOMECOMING
Zola Budd Pieterse (55) and her
husband Mike recently moved
back to South Africa. Their
three children remain in the
USA - Lisa (25) is studying for
a doctorate, Michael (23) is a
teacher and his twin sister
Azelle is considering further
studies. The family moved to the
US in 2008 and settled in Myrtle
Beach, South Carolina, where
Zola obtained her master’s
degree in counselling, and
worked as a coach for Coastal
Carolina University’s women’s track team.
Zola became famous as the barefoot athlete from Bloemfontein. In
1984 she represented Great Britain at the Los Angeles Olympics,
having acquired British citizenship via her paternal grandfather's
nationality. In the 1992 Barcelona Olympics she represented South
Africa. She still runs, and hopes to get back to coaching in South
Africa.
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