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Here are some extracts from the Newsletter that I received regarding Wheelchair basketball

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It was the Confederation Cup final and USA; the underdogs so nearly caused an upset of the century as Brazil calmly took the game away from them (thank you to VISA for the invitation to an amazing game of football). Bafana Bafana restored pride in their showing against Spain and the mighty British & Irish Lions roar was some what muffled as the Sasol Springbok’s grit and die hard determination kicked their way to victory to take the tour 2 – 1in an epic battle of supremacy and last but not least, IWBF Africa saw its first Wheelchair Basketball Womens team return home victorious to South Africa with a Bronze medal from the America’s Cup and the SA U23 National team embarks upon a daunting campaign to bring a world ranking back to Africa.

Last weekend saw the struggling former champions, the Visa Wings fall out of the Top 4 as they lost both their games against the Eagles and the Pumas but the upset was Eagles triumph over the Blades and repeated it as they beat the Gestetner Pumas although the Pumas forge their dominance as log leaders And finally, our U23 National Team finishes off their final preparation for the IWBF Junior World Cup this week as they jetted off to Paris to play for a place in history only to have the Airports company forget their Wheelchairs in SA! Read the rest of this entry →