South Africa’s most successful Olympian Tatjana Smith reveals she’s switching to the Netherlands
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"South Africa’s most successful Olympian Tatjana Smith reveals she’s switching to the Netherlands" is generating significant coverage in the Sports category, with 6 articles from 6 distinct sources tracked by PULSE so far.
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Coverage (11)
- Why Olympic champion initially gave up swimming before shockingly switching countries New York Post · 17h ago
- Gayton McKenzie defends Tatjana Smith’s Netherlands move as FF Plus demands Swimming SA probe IOL · 17h ago
- ‘Golden girl’ Tatjana hopes for change, explains Dutch switch: ‘I did everything for my country’ News24 · 17h ago
- Swimming icon Tatjana Smith switches allegiance to the Netherlands ‘to thrive, not just survive’ Daily Maverick · 17h ago
- Tatjana Smith: South Africa most decorated Olympian change allegiance to Netherlands BBC · 17h ago
- The day our journalist swam ‘against’ Tatjana News24 · 17h ago
- Tatjana Smith, Olympic swimming gold medalist, switches from South Africa to Netherlands NBC Sports · 17h ago
- South African swimmer Tatjana Smith switches allegiance to Netherlands Al Jazeera · 17h ago
- Two-Time Olympic Champion Tatjana Smith To Represent The Netherlands In Pursuit of 2028 Olympics SwimSwam · 17h ago
- Tatjana Smith switches allegiance from South Africa to Netherlands BBC · 17h ago
- South Africa’s most successful Olympian Tatjana Smith reveals she’s switching to the Netherlands New York Post · 17h ago
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