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Letsile Tebogo has detailed why it was kind of mandatory for him to win the 200m Olympic title in Paris.
Letsile Tebogo has opened up about his thoughts as he went to the men’s 200m final at the Paris Olympic Games.
The reigning Olympic 200m champion revealed that he had some bit of pressure since all eyes were on him to deliver against the strong field. Before the race, Noah Lyles had not confirmed to have tested positive for COVID and was still going into the race as a formidable competitor.
The world 200m silver medallist was also going to line up against the American duo of Kenny Bednarek and Erriyon Knighton who were also going into the race ready to stun the world. However, the night before the race, Letsile Tebogo reflected on his life and looking at how far he had come, he had no choice but to drop a bombshell.
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He was the eventual winner of the 200m, crossing the finish line first in an African record time of 19.46 seconds ahead of Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles who clocked 19.62 and 19.70 seconds settling for second and third places respectively. Noah Lyles was yellow-carded for improper conduct.
“So that made me hungrier to succeed. The night before the final I had to set down why I had started in this journey and what I wanted to achieve. At the end of the Olympic Games, would I achieve what I wanted to achieve? So that’s how I came to my conclusion. And I also thought that a lot of people were relying on me to make everything happen,” Letsile Tebogo told World Athletics.
This season has also been a great testimony for Tebogo who lost his mother Seratiwa Tebogo earlier this year. The world 200m bronze medallist clocked a series of sub-20 seconds in the 200m and was even primed as one to attack Usain Bolt’s world record.
After the Olympics, Letsile Tebogo won all his 200m races except the Diamond League Meeting final where he finished second behind Bednarek. He was not keen on how he managed to run faster times but that’s a sign of how talented the African record holder is.
He revealed that there was nothing he changed this season and it was just the usual things they have been doing in the past years.
“We didn’t even count how many 19-second races I ran in this season. Because it was Olympic year, there was just that drive in me that wanted to keep on going, even though we had to cut some races. But if it was nine times, I believe it. It showed we were really on the right track and that this was just the beginning,” Letsile Tebogo said.
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“I didn’t change anything in training – it was just a combination of things I have been working on. It was the same environment, the same places across the continents. Nothing has really changed in our training sessions. The confidence came in from the 200m. So that’s how we went about it.”
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