The Olympic schedule is a smörgåsbord of action and the time difference will make you cringe. South Africa has entered a team of over 130 athletes (a big chunk of those coming from the team events). DAILY MAVERICK has put together a schedule with all of the events South Africans could compete at the 2016 Games.
If you're a fan of the Olympics, best you get your coffee IV drip ready because the time difference is going to be painful. The five-hour time lapse might not sound like much, but with many of the quarter and semi-finals taking place late in the evening in Rio, it's pretty brutal. The only slight relief is that the heats - the stages before crunch time - are almost all at reasonable times.
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