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Tributes continue to pour in for Mulaudzi─── 07:45 Sat, 25 Oct 2014
Johannesburg - Tributes continue to pour in for Olympic silver medalist, Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, who died in a road accident on his way to an Athletics South Africa (ASA) meeting in Johannesburg, yesterday.
President Jacob Zuma said he was shocked and saddened over Mulaudzi's passing, adding that the nation had lost a true hero and one of the most disciplined and talented athletes who "flew the South African flag across the sporting globe".
The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) also said they have lost yet another icon in the South African sporting fraternity. Mulaudzi was a former 800m Athens 2004 Olympics silver medalist and a Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
He was also the flag bearer for South Africa at the opening ceremony of the Summer Olympics in Athens and he became South Africa's first black athlete to be ranked number one in the world.
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