SWIMMING NEWS - There is a real chance of the Tuks swimmer, Kaylene Corbett, winning gold maybe even three medals in the breaststroke events during the African Games starting in Rabat, Morocco from next week.
But medals are the last thing she will be thinking about when she dives into the pool. Her only goal will be to swim a time faster than the Olympic A qualification standard in the 200m-breaststroke and to see how close she can get doing so in the 100m-breaststroke.
Corbett has during the recent World Student Games, and World Championships managed to qualify on three occasions for next year's Olympic Games in Tokyo. She, however, is not going to leave anything to chance.
Getting to represent South Africa at the Olympic Games has been her dream ever since she can remember. Corbett remembers telling her mom when she was only eight that she is one day going to swim at the Games.
Judging by the way she has kept on improving her personal best time over the last 12 months it is a near done deal that she will do so. She started the season with her own best time in the 200m-breaststroke being 2:27.90. It is now 2:24.18. An improvement of more than three seconds. The Olympic qualifying standard is 2:25.52.
