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Gaborone \u2014 The debate over whether reigning Olympic 200-meter champion Letsile Tebogo should ditch the 100 meter dash to focus exclusively on the half-lap event continues to divide athletics pundits.<\/p>\n
Proponents of the move argue that the Botswana sprinting sensation possesses a naturally slower block start, making the 200 meters more suitable as it grants him the necessary distance to recover and unleash his devastating top-end speed.<\/p>\n
Whether this theory holds scientific weight remains a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Gaborone \u2014 The debate over whether reigning Olympic 200-meter champion Letsile Tebogo should ditch the 100 meter dash to focus exclusively on the half-lap event continues to divide athletics pundits. Proponents of the move argue that the Botswana sprinting sensation possesses a naturally slower block start, making the 200 meters more suitable as it grants […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235052,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[9776,258,256,4718,2462,9086,54507,257,254,9617,54506],"class_list":["post-235051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-200m","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-debate","tag-mastery","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sparks","tag-tebogos"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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