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All about ‘race-walking’ and ‘leapfrogging’

Although the people of Gauteng have the pleasure of reading the Jewish Report on Friday of each week, we on the coast – Durban, PE and Cape Town – have to wait a while before getting their papers. Then those of us in the outlying districts, and I make mention here of Umhlanga Rocks which is not an immediate recipient of the Jewish Report, have to wait another day before a commuter brings the paper to us.

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9 years ago

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Colin Plen

So, although your paper was issued on July 17, we have only sat down to read it in Izinga on the 21st.

In your column headed “Around the Jewish World” you have told about Jemima Montag who is a “top-ranked female race-walker”. Further, she recorded a sizzling 22 minute 4,29 second effort at the Australian youth team’s camp.
But, you say, she leapfrogged her way to this amazing speed. I am not a racist, knowing nothing about racing at all, but I would suggest that she was supposed to “walk” in this race and by leapfrogging she has obviously cheated.


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