As Botswana’s nice observe hope forward of the 2024 Olympics, Letsile Tebogo has lofty ambitions for Africa.
But the 20-year-old, who claimed two medals on the World Championships final yr, is preserving a cool head as his personal focus this yr shifts in direction of the Paris Video games, which start on 26 July.
“I haven’t got any targets for the Olympics as a result of I have never considered what’s going to occur,” Tebogo advised Newsday on the BBC World Service.
“I would like to take a seat down and see, after which set the targets. I’ll then announce my targets if I really feel prefer it.”
A part of the rationale for Tebogo’s reticence is the very fact he’s representing a rustic that has solely received two medals because it first competed within the Olympics in 1980 – with neither of them gold.
Nijel Amos claimed the southern African nation’s first Olympic medal in 2012, successful silver within the males’s 800m.
9 years later, the quartet of Isaac Makwala, Bayapo Ndori, Zibane Ngozi and Baboloki Thebe received males’s 4x400m relay bronze on the delayed 2020 Video games in Tokyo.
Now consideration has turned to Tebogo, and the expectation on his shoulders is justified.
A two-time 100m champion at world Underneath-20 degree, the place he additionally picked up two silver medals over 200m in 2021 and 2022, he’s beginning to translate his success on to the senior stage.
Tebogo took silver over the shorter distance on the Worlds in Hungary final August, and adopted that up with bronze within the 200m.