South African sports fans are frustrated after Bok skipper Siya Kolisi and World Champion Springboks fail to win top awards at the 2024 Laureus Sports Awards.
The Springbooks and Siya Kolisi lost out at the 2024 Laureus Sports Awards after they were nominated in the Team of the Year and Comeback of the Year categories
Spain’s women's football team walked away with the Team of the Year Award while US gymnast Simone Biles beat the Bok skipper. Local sports fans say the Boks should have won their awards as they say the organisers of the awards have their favouritesCelebrate Youth Month with Briefly News! Nominate a young entrepreneur under 35 with an inspiring story to be our 7th 'Young Money Maker'.
Tennis star Novak Djokovic won the Sportsman of the Year while female Spanish footballer Aitana Bonmatí scooped the Sportswoman of the Year.After Kolisi and the Boks lost out at the annual sports awards, local fans took to socila media to voice their disapproval.Lorraine Hartman is amazed: "Surely our Boks / Siya should’ve won ? To win something 5 times means that no one else has done anything great in the last 4 years,but as South Africans we know who our winners are. Still Proudly South African.""The world is extremely envious and can never accept that South African Bokke are brilliant.""Racism at its best. Absolute nonsense."The world champion said Erasmus is a special coach who can see issues in the squad before it can cause any damage.
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