9️⃣.9️⃣1️⃣ 🤯
— World Athletics (@WorldAthletics) August 2, 2022
World U20 record ✔️
World U20 champion ✔️
Cruising through the line ✔️@LetsileTebogo2 🇧🇼 is the future #WorldAthleticsU20 pic.twitter.com/lRniU1oAYJ
LETSILE TEBOGO HAS drawn Usain Bolt comparisons for quite some time now, and they were fully justified as he clocked a World U20 100m record of 9.91 and cruised to glory in Cali, Colombia, overnight.
The Botswana superstar showboated and celebrated as he broke his own record at the World Athletics U20 Championships, wagging his finger at opponents as he crossed the line.
“I saw the fans and I wanted to remind them of what Usain Bolt did back in the days,” Tebogo told the media afterwards.
“He’s my idol, the person I look up to. If somebody took it as disrespect, I’m really sorry.”
He thinks he’d have clocked 9.80 had he ran all out, but didn’t because, “We have more races to come, we didn’t want to go that far.
“This is my year as a junior, we have to leave it here for the next generation to come and break it. As soon as my first step, I knew the title was mine.”
Letsile Tebogo on *that celebration:
— Cathal Dennehy (@Cathal_Dennehy) August 2, 2022
"I saw the fans and I wanted to remind them of what @usainbolt did back in the days. He's my idol, the person I look up to. If somebody took it as disrespect, I'm really sorry."
What does he think he'd have run if all out?
"I think a 9.80." pic.twitter.com/WcVc9XeeTE
