Botswana Bullet Letsile Tebogo jogs first 100m still runs 19.94 (-1.2 m/s)

Very impressive of Tebogo to jog this 200m and still run 19.94.

Jokes aside, how does this bode for Lyles? IMO, Tebogo looked very smooth but 19.9s aren't winning friends or influencing people even if it's early in the season.

Tebogo is the main threat to Lyles. I think he’s still a year away from overtaking him though. Lyles gold and Tebogo silver in Paris 200m.

What we saw last year was that Lyles had more in the tank for the 200 by the end of Worlds. That being said Tebogo looks like he’s at a different level this year.

I still cant believe people say hes "jogging", or how often they use it when an athlete is just at 95% effort instead of 100%.

So maybe he splits 10.5 and 9.4? He still cant run 10.5 pace for more than 350m so how is that remotely a jog. Sigh.

You're welcome.

Tebogo is Bolt 2.0

Nobody else, Lyles included, has ever been able to demonstrate that kind of easy speed, although Blake came close for a while. What does it mean? That he can go through rounds like a hot knife through butter.

To me there is almost no difference between 1.0 and 2.0, save for the drive from the blocks: 1.0 had it, 2.0 hasn't, so far. 2.0 is more suited for the 200m, almost perfectly IMO.

I remember easy speed, those were the days. Tebogo is the real deal, he's doing it well. His legs just carry him, he is along for the ride. An amazing feeling. If he can get the rest of his body involved, he will be golden in the 100 as well as the 200.

Paris might be a fantastic showdown.

No he wasn’t jogging, but he was just cruising. And he did ease out of the blocks.

Bolt DID once jog during the 2nd half of a 9.8x 100m effort in London, it was the most incredible sprint performance I have ever seen, with BJ 9.79, FloJo 10.49, and Blake 19.26 not far behind.

JOGGED 2nd HALF OF A 9.8x 100m is something of which nobody else has been capable. It requires unbelievable 1st half and a high natural jog speed. I doubt even Tebogo could do it, even if he improves his start.

He does, however, have that super-cruise, like an aircraft that can exceed Mach 1 without afterburner.

I’d never heard it until this race video, but “the Botswana Bullet” is a great nickname for Tebogo

I’m so tired of these sit and kick races!

Mr. Knighton would like a word.

He’s as clean as Nijel Amos.

Eriyon Knighton has the chance to be as good as anyone has ever been. He ran 19.49 in high school. Even Bolt was a bit off his best junior times for a couple years before exploding.

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Doping – Botswana Athletics’ Ticking Time Bomb?

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With just two weeks to go before this year’s World Athletics championships, Botswana Athletics community once again found itself caught in the midst of a

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The concern stems from the fact that where issues of doping continuously crop up, the association gets implicated. “Athletics Integrity Unit (AIU) may now look at us in a bad light if this continues. In the end, it will seem we are manipulating results. This may eventually lead to our events sidelined from being qualifying events for major events.”

There is now a fear that if the trend continues unabated, AIU may turn its attentions to Botswana. For the BAA, the pressure now is finding out what could be leading athletes to take banned substances. As it is, no study has been undertaken to ascertain what causes local athletes to use banned substances.

“It is very important that all of us, athletes, administrators and stakeholders, ensure that we have a clean sport,” Theetso says. He believes that while there are already systems in place to curb doping, more still needs to be done.

To this end, BAA is continuously working with both RADO and the country’s National Anti-Doping Association (NADO) to root out doping. The three organs are continuously educating athletes on doping more especially ahead of major games.

“There are systems in place to stop doping. However, our major problem is testing. Most of our testing is done during competitions and less is done during off season. We need to do more here,” Theetso advices."

Knighton should be considered as big of a threat in the 200m to Lyles as Tebogo is. For some reason, nobody is giving him a chance in these early season debates.

Because no one has seen anything from him besides a 20.2 indoors.

Lyles ran 6.43 and Tebogo ran 30.69

If Knighton came out and dropped a 6.4x or a 31.0 or a 44.x I would put him on the same level as both of them right now. Even Kenny looks good right now. Easiest 46 i've seen since Michael Norman.

The Bullet nickname has already been taken, Bro.

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Bob Hayes | U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame

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NFL Hall of Famer “Bullet” Bob Hayes won two gold medals at the Tokyo 1964 Olympic Games. and is the only person ever to win an Olympic gold medal and a Super Bowl ring.

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Did someone fart in that video? Right after they say his name the last 100m

This the Omayala early season fraud altitude races all over again... At least Omayala actually recognized the error of his season planning (potentially clout chasing for contract/DL/etc. reasons).

Very doubtful we see a Tebogo medal that isn't bronze.

Blake on PEDs was able to come close. Once he was caught cheating he turned into a completely different runner. Night and day.

Tebogo's 300m record is crazy (30.69!!). He is gonna be very tough in Paris. 19.3??

19.2-19.1 with the tracks these days. 300 has more of a correlation with the 200 than the 400. Blake supposedly ran 30.8 or so before his 19.2.