Botswana fills largest stadium to welcome Country's first olympic gold medalist

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The 21-year-old Letsile Tebogo pulled off a stunner in the men's 200 meters at the Paris Olympics, producing the first-ever Olympic gold by an African runner in the distance.

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After his win, Tebogo draped the blue, white and black flag of his country over his shoulders, hung his orange cleats around his neck presented his right shoe to a nearby camera to reveal a tribute to his mother, Elizabeth Seratiwa, who died in May.

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Tebogo's biography in the official Olympics media program quotes him as saying he wants "to be remembered as one of the best athletes who ever lived.”

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Botswana, a largely rural country of 2.63 million roughly the size of France that serves as a popular destination for tourists going on African safaris.

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The pace of life in Kanye isn't typically hectic. Maybe that makes Tebogo's triumph of a young man in a hurry ironic in a way.

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