The 22-year-old Letsile Tebogo is just a normal ‘School Boy’ from Botswana. But when this School Boy brings gold for his country, the nation regards him with something special. Like last year, when Tebogo won the nation’s first Olympic gold (in the men’s 200m) in Paris, the Botswana government declared a half-day holiday, allowing citizens to “pause and celebrate him.” This year too, as the Tebogo and co. clinched a gold for the country in the 4x400m relay, the African nation once again celebrated the Championships victory by declaring a public holiday.

On September 22, the 4x400m relay squad of Lee Bhekempilo Eppie, Letsile Tebogo, Bayapo Ndori, and Busang Collen Kebinatshipi edged Team USA to gold. With this, Botswana became the first African nation to win the event. Following

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