Sports
A total of 23 sports competitions were held at the 11th SAF Games.
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For the first time, Twenty20 Cricket was included in the Games. All the eight participating nations sent under-21 teams for the cricket tournament.
Despite early rumours that Hockey, Volleyball, Rowing and Wrestling were to be excluded from the Games, of the four only rowing did not make the final list of sports.
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“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)
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—Joseph Addison (1672–1719)