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‘Mom’s in every stride’
Updated On: 10 August, 2024 06:50 AM IST | Paris | AFP
After becoming first African to win Oly 200m, Botswana’s Tebogo remembers late mother, whose birthdate is printed on his shoe; COVID-hit Lyles is third
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Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo (second from left), USA’s Kenneth Bednarek and Noah Lyles (right) cross the finish line in the 200m final in Paris on Thursday. Pic/AFP
Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo became the first African to win the Olympic 200 metres on Thursday as he—and Covid—upstaged Noah Lyles’s plans for a sprint double in Paris.
Tebogo, 21, was able to ease up at the end and still clocked an African record of 19.46sec for gold, with American Kenny Bednarek taking silver in 19.62sec and Lyles fading to bronze in 19.70sec.
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