Management in sports

Penny Heyns tells Management Today magazine South Africa in the July 2012 issue: "I think my success goes back to a core value and belief system. Many young children today aspire to be Springboks or Proteas. And sometimes the reasons are not centred on their talents and developing them to the best of their ability, but rather on the perceived fame and financial gain."

Swimming sensation, Chad Le Clos, is set to play host to his idol Michael Phelps, and has plans to take him shark cage diving and on an African safari at the end of the year.

View striking Olympic Photos of London 2012 - see the best athletes, medal-winning performances and top Olympic Games moments.

Read how HR and OD worked together to build the Olympic Stadium in the July issue of Management Today magazine South Africa (print, iPad or Android editions)

One comment stands out when Ben Ainslie talks about the race in which he became the most decorated Olympic sailor of all time. In pain, out of

Most of you are probably enjoying the Olympics, but perhaps in a manner quite different from you did for past Olympic Games. The folks...

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Oscar Pistorius at the London 2012 Games - inspiration indeed.

Danny Jordaan tells Management Today magazine South Africa in the July 2012 issue: "We understood that the fact that we had a non-racial constitution did not automatically translate into creating a non-racial society. We started to look at the contribution that major sport could make to support building a new non-racial society. We thought that hosting major sporting events in SA would assist in building that new non-racial society..."

Read how HR and OD worked together to build the Olympic Stadium in the July issue of Management Today magazine South Africa

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See pictures from Chad le Clos's 200m butterfly race and the celebratory moments afterwards.

The Olympic Games, to be held in London from 27 July, are being heralded as the first social media games, where the ubiquity of...