President Mokgweetsi Masisi declared Tuesday afternoon a half-day holiday in honour of sprinter Letsile Tebogo, who brought the southern African country its first Olympic gold medal by winning the 200m in Paris. The president had already granted his 2.3 million citizens a half-day holiday on Friday to celebrate the “Botswana sensation”. He will, according to a government statement, be at the airport to greet the national Olympic team, expected early this afternoon with the man who won gold in the 200m and silver in the 4x400m relay, bringing the country’s total Olympic medal tally to four. At the age of 21, Tebogo became the first African to win the 200m at the Olympics, beating Americans Kenny Bednarek and Noah Lyles in 19”46, a new African record 27 hundredths of a second behind the world record held by Jamaican Usain Bolt (19”19).
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2024 Olympics: Half-day public holiday declared in Botswana in honor of Letsile Tebogo
