The Herald Live reports that road work/repairs are to start on a major section of the road for the Ironman 70.3 Worlds this year. As previously posted, the new course is a compromise between the course they wanted and a course they can afford to repair.

Ironman South Africa Managing Director Keith Bowler was present in an orchestrated announcement ( Read more... )

In what must be a face-saving switch, Ironman announced a change to the bike course back in January. Notionally to make the course safer for the athletes, it also conveniently reduced the need for R175 million in road upgrades that a cash strapped city and region couldn't afford.

Interesting they'll be implementing special police patrols to protect ( Read more... )

Apparently South Africa is about to be awarded the Rugby World Cup 2023. Hopefully the host cities have learned something about the bidding processes and associated costs from what is going on down in Nelson Mandela Bay.


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