Letsile Tebogo of Botswana upsets Noah Lyles to win gold in the men's 200 meters at the Paris Olympics.
Letsile Tebogo Noah Lyles - The Canadian PressPARIS — Letsile Tebogo is from Botswana in southern Africa, a continent with a rich history of producing world-class runners.
American Kenneth Bednarek got out to an early lead, but Tebosgo said he was confident that he had more than enough to track him down. By the middle of the stretch, Tebogo was in front and waited for a challenge from American star Noah Lyles that never came — perhaps in part because Lyles is dealing with COVID-19 — to win going away.
And when Tebogo ran it, he draped the blue, white and black flag of his country over his shoulders, hung his orange cleats around his neck presented his right shoe to a nearby camera to reveal a tribute to his mother, Elizabeth Seratiwa, who died in May.
He's probably already there back home, a largely rural country of 2.63 million roughly the size of France that serves as a popular destination for tourists going on African safaris. The pace of life in Kanye isn't typically hectic. Maybe that makes Tebogo's triumph of a young man in a hurry ironic in a way.
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