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Natalie du Toit made history when she took to the water in the women's 10-kilometre open water swim at the Olympic Games in Beijing on Wednesday, becoming the first amputee to take on able-bodied athletes in the biggest sporting event of them all.

Khotso Mokoena ended Team South Africa's Olympic medals drought on Monday, winning silver in impressive style in the men's long jump with a leap of 8.24 metres.

The 2008 Comrades Marathon produced some significant milestones, including a new men's "up run" record by Russia's Leonid Shvetsov, and an astounding new record for the most Comrades completed - by a man who first ran the race in 1961.

Cheese connoisseurs from across the country will descend on the Western Cape to sample well-known and new varieties of cheese at the annual South African Cheese Festival held on a small farm in Paarl.

South Africa collected five medals to finish fourth out of 33 countries at the 2006 ISA World Surfing Games in California, with Jordy Smith scoring a sensational victory in the men's open division.

As the Athens Olympics heads towards its conclusion, it has been a mixed bag for South Africa's athletes, with no more medals after four in the first week, and the results in many cases something of a disappointment, especially in track and field. We're not done yet, though.