South African Wayde van Niekerk‘s talent turned out to be sprinting — to become the fastest 400m runner in history at age 24 in 2016 — but when the opportunity came in 2017 to play tag rugby match with the nation’s other sports greats, he did not pass it up.
“You just want, as a young boy, wanting to do a bit of sports and playing a bit of rugby with the legends of the country and so on,” van Niekerk said in a recent interview. “As you know, the rich history of South African sports.