The Olympic 200m champion Latsile Tabogo said that on Wednesday he could become a criminal if the athletics game would not have paid attention to him.
In any game, Botswana’s first Olympic gold medalist was shocked to the grounds in Paris last year, Last year, Ladbogo said that he would take lessons learned from his childhood in his new role as a global ambassador for children’s athletics scheme.
21 -year -old Labogo told reporters on a video conference call, “The game has really helped me a lot because I think without the game … maybe I will be a criminal so far.” “In the neighborhood where I grew up, there were a lot of criminals, it was the only way to survive.
“But then with the game I knew that I have to go to school and you are tired with training. You don’t have time to walk on the streets and go to people’s homes,” he said. “So once I came to know that I tried to pull some of my friends … and now they are playing football.
“We always talk about whether it doesn’t work, where will we be?”
Kids athletics program focuses on maximizing participation and joy through revised sports and competitions based on the track and field events targeted on children between the ages of four to 14 years and targeted on children between four and 14 years of age.
Tabogo, who after the call, attended a relay event with around 1,000 children at the same ground in Botswana, where he trained as a boy, remembering that he initially liked football.
“I was more than a footballer, a left-winger. My primary school teachers forced me into athletics,” he said. “(Athletics) Commonwealth Games was not back in Botswana until 2018.
“From my side I just wanted to see where it would take me. Athletics was just a part -time thing for me.”
His switch of the game made beautifully at the Olympics, when he crossed the line in the 19.46 section in the African records of the 19.46 section, Kenny Bednek of the USA’s second and 100m champion Noah Loles left Bednek in a bronze position.
Lygogo called Lyels “arrogant” after that race and suggested that the cameras would always like Brash American.
He clarified those comments on Wednesday and said: “When you come on the track, it is all about business.
“When we finish, you can be friends, life moves forward.” But ‘ego’ (of Lails) … He is good for selling our game. But with me, I always hesitate to do so because I am. ,
Tabogo came to second place in a rare outing at 400 meters in Melbourne in the last weekend and will run a 200 meter race in a meeting in Botswana next week as he speeds up his speed before going to Diamond League meetings in Ziamen and Shanghai on 26 April and 3 May respectively.
He said that he hoped that his rivals were running a gun for him as they construct the World Championship in Tokyo in September.
“Everyone who is on line-up is a rival. You cannot finish anyone because he did not perform well in the 2024 Olympics or 2023 World Championships,” said Tabogo.
