Botswana declares half-day holiday to mark first Olympic gold
The United States continued their dominance of the Olympic 4x400 metres relay on Saturday but only just, as Rai Benjamin held off Botswana's Letsile Tebogo in a thrilling last-leg battle between two individual gold medallists.
Letsile Tebogo became the first African to win the men's Olympic 200 metres title on Thursday when he powered clear of American duo Kenny Bednarek and a COVID-hit Noah Lyles to claim Botswana's first Olympic gold medal.
Images from the Diamond League Finals at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on Saturday.
Images from the Weltklasse Diamond League athletics meeting at the Letzigrund Stadium, in Zurich, on Thursday.
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Olympic champion Winfred Yavi of Bahrain won the 3,000 metres women's steeplechase in impressive fashion at the Rome Diamond League meeting on Friday, coming agonisingly close to breaking the World record with the second-fastest ever time.
Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi of Kenya, 20, narrowly missed the world mark of 1:40.91 set by Kenya's David Rudisha at the 2012 London Olympics.
The team couldn't maintain the momentum on the anchor leg.
Noah Lyles said that his Paris Games are over, hours after he needed medical attention
Botswana's Letsile Tebogo set the fastest time in the men's Olympic 200 metres semi-finals on Wednesday, proving his intent to upset American Noah Lyles's quest for a sprint double.
Noah Lyles won by five thousandths of a second in a sensational finish to give the United States the 100m title for the first time in 20 years.
Lyles and Hassan bookend fabulous Paris programme
The medal tally at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
The current Olympic champion Italy's Marcell Jacobs, who has had a wretched time with injury since his shock Tokyo success, looked a little sluggish in finishing second in 10.05 behind Nigerian heat winner Kayinsola Ajayi (10.02).
The current Olympic champion Italy's Marcell Jacobs, who has had a wretched time with injury since his shock Tokyo success, looked a little sluggish in finishing second in 10.05 behind Nigerian heat winner Kayinsola Ajayi (10.02).
'I feel good and I'm rounding into shape ahead of the Olympics.'
Cambodia's Ly Muyleang was crowned the new Miss Teen International in Jaipur, July 7.
Uganda produced wonders in the ICC Men's T20 World Cup Africa Region Qualifier last November
Glimpses from the 71st edition of the Miss World pageant.
The 2023 World Athletics Championships kicked off in Budapest on August 19.
Meanwhile, Anas, a member of the gold-winning 4x400m mixed relay team at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, said that a recent tweak in the baton exchange technique has helped them become quicker.
Noah Lyles is the first man since Usain Bolt in 2015 to win the sprint double.
American Noah Lyles stormed to his third consecutive world 200 metres title on Friday to underline his status as the best in the business since Usain Bolt.
Kenya's Faith Kipyegon shattered the women's mile World record, while compatriot Ferdinand Omanyala won the men's 100 metres in a photo finish at the Monaco Diamond League meeting on Friday.
Those who consider the rupee as a proxy for virility have started thumping their chests and dreaming of dethroning the dollar from its coveted position, observes Tamal Bandyopadhyay.
A wrap from Day 2 of the World Athletics Championships 2023 in Budapest on Sunday.
Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya, the 3,000 metres steeplechase world champion in 2019, passed this season's world leader Sembo Almayew of Ethiopia with a lap remaining to win in 9:05.98.
There is a congruence of interests between Ukrainian intelligence and its Western mentors to destroy Wagner and eliminate it from the geopolitical chessboard altogether, argues Ambassador M K Bhadrakumar.
After being banned for three years, Nijel Amos is selling his Olympic silver medal to support his family.
Images from the World Athletics Championships in Budapest on Saturday.
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Presently, the eight cheetahs at Kuno are killing a prey every three-four days and are in good health, officials said.
The government of Maharashtra on Thursday revised its guidelines for passengers arriving in the state.
Madhya Pradesh health authorities on Monday managed to trace a 34-year-old woman from Botswana, a country in southern Africa where Omicron variant of coronavirus has been detected, in Jabalpur, a day after a search was launched for her as per the health surveillance guidelines to check the spread of COVID-19.
Modi had released the first batch of eight eight spotted felines -- five females and three males -- from Namibia into a quarantine enclosure at Kuno on his 72nd birthday on September 17 last year.
India finished sixth overall across the two heats with Botswana 3:05.11s being the quickest.
The medals table of the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the aircraft had crashed into the mountains after it swerved to the right, instead of turning to the left due to inclement weather.
The Omicron lineages have been named BA.4 and BA.5.
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