Olympics are leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a variety of competitions. When we hear the word “boycott”, most of us think of Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King, and Nelson Mandela encouraging rebellion against the establishment. We do not picture Read More
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BY: Katlego Mechedi Botswana’s 400m athletics sensation, Leungo Scotch is the 2020 sportsman of the year after scooping the prestigious Botswana National Sports Commission(BNSC)`s sportsperson of the year award at the 40th edition of Botswanasports awards held on November 24. TALKING POINTS Leungo Scotch dominated the night Scotch forms a formidable 4X4 team that won Read More
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BY: Katlego Mechedi The young sportsmen, sensational boxer Rajab Otukile Mahommed, and the 400m sprinter, Leungo Scotch find themselves battling for the biggest award of the sportsman of the year in which the Botswana Sports Awards ceremony will be held on the 21st of November 2020 at Ba Isago Convention Center.SPORTSNATION`s Katlego Mechedi writes. TALKING Read More
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BY: Katlego Mechedi The much anticipated Gaborone International Meet is set to take place next year(2021) on the 24th of April at the National Stadium following the cancellation of this year’s meet due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. TALKING POINTS National Stadium meets the international standards GIM is a platform for upcoming athletes It is Read More
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BY: Tirelo Mosielele Switzerland’s Federal Supreme Court dismissed Caster Semenya’s case appeal of a prior ruling made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in 2019. The ruling ordered Caster Semenya to take testosterone reducing drugs. Following the ruling, Caster Semenya would now be able to compete in her famous 800 m race. Caster Read More
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Professionalism is a need in Botswana,the recent road accidents by Botswana sports stars is worrisome accounting to drugs and alcohol,be it a fatality or career ending injury it is high time our athletes consider upholding professionalism.
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Amantle Montsho,arguably the best sportswomen of the 21st century in Botswana has defied her aging 36 years to qualify for the Tokyo 2020 games,first making her appearance in 2004 Athens Olympics,2008 Beijing Olympicsa and 2012 London Olympics.She truly deserves an honour,for she is among the greatest of all times.
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Nkobolo is said to have in the process sustained a spinal shock,dislocated neck bones and torn ligament slimming his chances of partaking in Japan for the Olympics with less than four months to go.The driver of the vehicle Thebe allegedly was under the influence of alcohol had apparently lost the control of the car leading to the fatal accident and a career ending injuries to Onkabetse Nkobolo.
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BY:Phodiso GaebepeGABORONE:A common goal, common vision, common aspirations has a tendency of bringing two people of different locations, join them in a holy matrimony. And the two shall become one. This scenario is found in the cordial partnership between one of the leading mobile networks in the country Mascom Wireless and the Botswana National Olympic Read More
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BY:Kabelo Seleka GABORONE:Botswana National Olympic Committee(BNOC) has pleaded with sports faithfuls and citizens of Botswana to partake in BNOC Tokyo 2020 SMS campaign following a low turn up in the P 2.5 million ambitious target. The 1978 founded organization has only received 2905 SMS as of April 2019 with a year to go to Read More
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