Gaborone gold rush: how Botswana rose to the top of men’s sprinting
Country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under threat
It was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. In the final strait, Collen Kebinatshipi surged past South Africa’s Zakithi Nene to win the men’s 4x400m relay for Botswana. The home crowd, a sea of light blue, went wild.
“It means so many things to us,” Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards. “Not just the team … but for the people that always cheer for us behind the TV. Now they had that experience to see first-hand how much effort, how much pressure, how much we give for them.”
If country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
When you look at country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under, the implications are hard to ignore.
The fact that country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under really puts things into perspective.
What stands out is “It means so many things to us,” Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards. That is the part worth paying attention to.
Country with a population of just 2.5m credits investment in young athletes for its rise but this progress is under. Meanwhile it was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone.
Basically “It means so many things to us,” Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards. What matters is whether anything changes because of it.
It was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. Meanwhile “It means so many things to us,” Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards.
The fact that it was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone really puts things into perspective.
Think about it: it was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone. That speaks volumes.
Zakithi Nene is in a tough spot here, curious how they navigate it.
Still waiting to hear what Collen Kebinatshipi actually plans to do about it.
The detail about “It means so many things to us,” Letsile Tebogo, 22, the reigning 200m Olympic champion, who ran the second leg, told reporters afterwards is something people should sit with.
Considering it was a fairytale ending to the World Athletics Relays in Gaborone, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
Collen Kebinatshipi has been pushing this agenda for a while now.