Mumbai: If it weren’t for his teachers in primary school, Letsile Tebogo may not have gone on to become Botswana’s first Olympic gold medallist. Then again, the man who stunned pre-race favourite Noah Lyles to win the 200m sprint at the Paris Olympics last year candidly goes on to admit, if it weren’t for sport itself, he could so easily have been a criminal today.
“I was more of a footballer, I was a left winger, so I think the teachers from my primary school, they discovered that and they forced me to venture into athletics,” Tebogo told reporters during a video call on Wednesday.
