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As Botswana’s great track hope ahead of the 2024 Olympics, Letsile Tebogo has lofty ambitions for Africa.<\/b><\/p>\n
Yet the 20-year-old, who claimed two medals at the World Championships last year<\/a>, is keeping a cool head as his own focus this year shifts towards the Paris Games, which begin on 26 July.<\/p>\n “I don’t have any goals for the Olympics because I haven’t thought about what will happen,” Tebogo told Newsday on the BBC World Service.<\/p>\n “I need to sit down and see, and then set the goals. I will then announce my goals if I feel like it.”<\/p>\n Part of the reason for Tebogo’s reticence is the fact he is representing a country that has only won two medals since it first competed in the Olympics in 1980 – with neither of them gold.<\/p>\n Nijel Amos claimed the southern African nation’s first Olympic medal in 2012, winning silver in the men’s 800m.<\/a><\/p>\n Nine years later, the quartet of Isaac Makwala, Bayapo Ndori, Zibane Ngozi and Baboloki Thebe won men’s 4x400m relay bronze<\/a> at the delayed 2020 Games in Tokyo. <\/p>\n Now attention has turned to Tebogo, and the expectation on his shoulders is justified.<\/p>\n A two-time 100m champion at world Under-20 level, where he also picked up two silver medals over 200m in 2021 and 2022, he is starting to translate his success on to the senior stage.<\/p>\n