Last year, at the World Championships in Budapest, he became the first African to win a medal (silver) in the 100 meters at the World Championships. Next to the Danube, there was also a bronze medalist on a twice-long section, and even then it was clear that a new star of athletics was born...
Confirmation came just 12 months later at the Olympics - Lecile Tebogo, a 21-year-old boy from Botswana, won the gold medal in the 200m race, the first and most brilliant Olympic medal in his country's history.
And in what a race, in what company and with what relaxation at the finish line... Tebogo thundered past the Americans Kenneth Bednarek and Noah Lyles, who won gold in the 100 meters, and then slowed down in the last meters - enough for 19,46 seconds and the African record.
"It's time for Africa to take over dominance in the sprint disciplines," Tebogo said last year, and then this year he showed how serious he was about his favorite race.
Tebogo crossed the finish line, by the way, while as many as three Americans were looking behind him, since the athlete from that country, Erijon Knighton, took fourth place.
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