Tebogo is looking to win his first world title after picking up silver in the 100m and bronze in the 200m in Budapest two years ago
100m Olympic champion Noah Lyles; (right) 200m Olympic champ Letsile Tebogo
Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo said on Tuesday that he would let his ‘legs do the talking’ when he battles with fierce rival Noah Lyles at the World Athletics Championships which kicks-off on September 13 here.
The soft-spoken Botswanan won his country’s first Olympic gold medal in any sport at the Paris Olympics last year, where Lyles finished third. Tebogo labelled his flamboyant American rival ‘arrogant’ after that race, and Lyles’s outsized character is likely to command the global spotlight again.
But Tebogo said he was comfortable in his own skin. “I’m one person who always shies away from the media, but the sport forces me to step up and up my game into becoming a sports personality. At the end of the day, it’s all about what do you want to see: to be on the spotlight or off the spotlight,” said the 22-year-old sprinter. “For me, I choose off the spotlight and then just my legs do the talking,” Tebogo added.
Lyles got the better of Tebogo in the 200m race at the Diamond League finals in Zurich two weeks ago, edging the Botswanan by two-hundredths of a second. The pair are also set to square off in the 100m in Tokyo.
Tebogo is looking to win his first world title after picking up silver in the 100m and bronze in the 200m in Budapest two years ago.
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