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SA Rugby has sent condolences and offered support to French rugby after a young player was swept out to sea in Cape Town on Wednesday.

"As a result, Tom will lose all his remaining Olympic privileges. He had already moved out of the Olympic Village, and I understand he was not intending to return for the Closing Ceremony. If he were, he would not be able to attend."

South Africa's most-decorated Olympian, Tatjana Smith, is hoping to use her experience on the global stage to guide the careers of future swimming stars after calling it quits in Paris.

There will be a 30-second time limit to form scrums and lineouts when the Wallabies face South Africa in Brisbane and New Zealand take on Argentina in Wellington.

Events at the Paris Games have been lined with advertising for the ubiquitous fizzy drinks of Coca-Cola, which has been sponsoring the Olympics since 1928.

Feinberg-Mngomezulu and Elrigh Lou in the starting line-up for the Springbok's test against Australia on Saturday.

The National Lotteries Commission gave the South African Olympic team in Paris a nearly R28-million grant, but with strict conditions. A further R11.5-million has been given to the Paralympics team. The grant was approved a few weeks before the Olympics because previous lottery grants to the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) have been squandered.

The rationale is that individual players, not the match, are punished for some red card offences, SANZAAR said in a statement.

Noah Lyles snatched a photo-finish victory in the closest 100m final in modern Olympic history on Sunday to end the United States' 20-year wait.