{"id":43560,"date":"2024-08-08T19:13:04","date_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=43560"},"modified":"2024-08-08T19:13:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T19:13:06","slug":"tebogo-wins-olympics-200m-gold-for-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/08\/08\/tebogo-wins-olympics-200m-gold-for-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"Tebogo wins Olympics 200m gold for Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noah Lyles lost the Olympic 200 meters Thursday, falling to Botswana\u2019s Letsile Tebogo, then being tended to by medics who carted him off the track in a wheelchair suffering with what The Associated Press learned was a case of COVID.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img data-dominant-color=\"54515b\" data-has-transparency=\"false\" style=\"--dominant-color: #54515b;\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"697\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/08\/IMG_8044-1024x697.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-43561 not-transparent\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/08\/IMG_8044-1024x697.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/08\/IMG_8044-300x204.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/08\/IMG_8044-768x523.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/08\/IMG_8044-750x511.webp 750w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/08\/IMG_8044-1140x776.webp 1140w, https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/pub\/2024\/08\/IMG_8044-jpeg.webp 1169w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After crossing the line third for the second straight Olympics, Lyles fell to his back and eventually sat up to be tended to by medical staff. A person familiar with Lyles\u2019condition, who did not want to be identified, told AP was diagnosed with COVID two days before the final.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It\u2019s the second straight Olympics the virus has played a major role in Lyles\u2019&nbsp;trip to the Games. He also won the bronze in the Tokyo Olympics, and he has said the empty stands and a year delay before the Games led to depression that he said hampered his performance and inspired his road to Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Noah Lyles lost the Olympic 200 meters Thursday, falling to Botswana\u2019s Letsile Tebogo, then being tended to by medics who carted him off the track in a wheelchair suffering with what The Associated Press learned was a case of COVID. After crossing the line third for the second straight Olympics, Lyles fell to his back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3295],"tags":[1571,7960,5222,539,7090,5918,10634,10455,11385,1707,1253,11462,1705,10028,594],"class_list":["post-43560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-sport","tag-botswana","tag-case","tag-covid","tag-delay","tag-games","tag-gold","tag-lost","tag-noah-lyles","tag-olympic","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-tebogo","tag-tokyo","tag-wheelchair","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43560"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43562,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43560\/revisions\/43562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}