Zuko Komisa

Botswana filled their biggest stadium to welcome back sprinter Letsile Tebogo and their Olympics team.
Letsile Tebogo, an Olympic gold medalist, was welcomed back to Botswana by 30,000 citizens who packed the National Stadium.
Letsile Tebogo, Botswana’s first Olympic gold medal winner, had a warm welcome back home on Tuesday, with thousands filling a stadium to celebrate and honor the sprinter.
After arriving in Gaborone, Tebogo was escorted on a rooftop bus to the National Stadium for an athletes parade, where people crowded the stands to cheer on the players and wave the country’s blue-and-black national flag.
Over 30,000 people out in Botswana's 🇧🇼 biggest stadium to welcome Letsile Tebogo!🤯
— Track & Field Gazette (@TrackGazette) August 13, 2024
This is what the country's first Olympic GOLD means to them.
They got a second public holiday in a week as well for this.pic.twitter.com/IVkeqlSOYu
He won the country’s first Olympic gold medal, as well as a silver medal in the men’s 4x400m relay.
Botswana’s people were granted an afternoon off from work on August 9th by Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi through a presidential decree in order to commemorate the country’s first gold medal in the Olympics.
Goosebumps. Team Botswana arrival at National Stadium pic.twitter.com/dP0g7YRD9E
— #FilsRated (@MadisaFils) August 13, 2024



