SOUTH AFRICA'S GOLDEN BOY.

 London 2012 Olympics.



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Washington Post, ABC, China-mike.com, CBS News,
and The New York Post

The London 2012 Olympics Games Opening Ceremony took place at 9pm on 27 July 2012. The Summer Olympics began Friday, 27 July 2012, and ends Sunday, 12 August 2012. It was one of glorious moments when Cameron Van Der Burgh became the first person to win the Gold Medal. Reported on Sport24 (Sunday, 29 July 2012). He made history on Sunday as the Olympics took place in London. He is 24 years old, very polite and humble. After his performance every camera men and the members of the public wanted a piece of him and he just stood there, let them take photos and answered their questions. He formed a world-record time of 58.46 seconds and crushed the rest of his team mates. Cameron has been to every Newspaper on Monday to show how happy South Africa was.

"It's a feeling I can't describe right now, it has been a lot of work in the making. Everything has paid off tonight," he said. Those words he said them while holding his medal in front of the whole world. They were competing in a 100 M group and Van Der Burgh finished in a time of 58, 46 seconds and 0, 12 faster than the previous record held by Australian Brenton Rickard.

  

The top three (3) is as follows:

· Cameron Van Der Burgh of South Africa in a time of time 58.46

· Christian Sprenger of Australia in a time of 58.93

· American Brendan Hansen who was third in 59.49.

In a Communications point of view, this event was well planned in such a manner that all the participants got to London safe and so far the department have not received complaints.  

For more information click the link below:

http://www.sport24.co.za/OtherSport/Olympics2012/Cameron-van-der-Burgh-The-perfect-race-20120729



 Cameron Van Der Burgh (www.googleimage.com)