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Met die Blitsbok Shilton van Wyk (24) se terugkeer na Saldanha n\u00e1 \u2019n suksesvolle Olimpiese Spele in Frankryk is \u2019n behoorlike helde-ontvangs vir hom by sy alma mater, die Weskusskool, gere\u00ebl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Van Wyk het ernstig na al die rolmodelle en ondersteuners op sy pad na \u2019n Olimpiese bronsmedalje se toesprake geluister, maar dit was die spontane kinders voor die Laerskool St. Andrews in White City, waar hy leer rugby speel het, wat hom groot en breed laat glimlag het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hier het hy trots die medalje omhoog gehou terwyl kinders, onderwysers en gemeenskapslede opgewonde saam met hul held geposeer het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Verskeie oud-onderwysers het ook gespring om saam met Van Wyk afgeneem te word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Die burgemeester, Andr\u00e9 Truter, wat saam in die afslaankap-motor gesit en vir omstanders gewaai het, het Shilton vooraf gelukgewens met sy prestasie by \u2019n verwelkomingsgeselligheid wat tot sy eer by die Weskusskool gehou is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hier moes Shilton ook bontstaan om saam met aanhangers en ondersteuners afgeneem te word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ten spyte daarvan dat Shilton nie een vir al die vertoon is nie, is die geleentheid tot sy eer gere\u00ebl, juis omdat sy ouers, Coby (59) en Blance van Wyk (54), en al sy oud-afrigters en oud-onderwysers so trots op hom is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shilton van Wyk en die burgemeester, Andr\u00e9 Truter, voor die Weskusskool in Saldanha.<\/div>\n
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Bertram Vraagom, voorsitter van die Saldanha-rugbyklub, het die gaste verwelkom, waarna verskeie sprekers Shilton gelukgewens het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shilton, \u2019n man van min woorde, het almal bedank vir hul ondersteuning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cEk waardeer al die ondersteuning, al die mense wat my deur alles gehelp het.\u201d Hy het hom voorgeneem om in die gemeenskap terug te ploeg.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Hierna het die stoet motors met Shilton vooraan deur die middedorp gery, verby St. Andrews en uiteindelik by sy ouers se huis in Diazville gestop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pa Coby is al jare \u2019n rugbyafrigter by die Saldanha-rugbyklub waar Van Wyk n\u00e1 skool in 2018 begin speel het.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Di\u00e9 kranige Blitsbok-senter het in 2022 by die Doebai-toernooi vir die Blitsbokke gedebuteer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hy en sy spanlede het einde Julie derde ge\u00ebindig in die manstoernooi vir rugby-sewes by die Olimpiese Spele.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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