{"id":237461,"date":"2026-06-26T06:03:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kebinatshipi-and-hall-in-mighty-showdown\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:03:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T04:03:54","slug":"botswana-kebinatshipi-and-hall-in-mighty-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-kebinatshipi-and-hall-in-mighty-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Kebinatshipi and Hall in Mighty Showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Gaborone \u2014 The athletic world is eagerly anticipating a head-to-head confrontation between Collen Kebinatshipi and the United States&#8217; 400m Olympic Champion, Quincy Hall in the Paris Diamond League event in France on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The historic matchup is expected to clarify who holds the true psychological and athletic advantage in the highly competitive quarter-mile division.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Entering the race as the reigning 400m World Champion, Kebinatshipi has established a reputation for aggressive front-running,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250601.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 The athletic world is eagerly anticipating a head-to-head confrontation between Collen Kebinatshipi and the United States&#8217; 400m Olympic Champion, Quincy Hall in the Paris Diamond League event in France on Sunday. The historic matchup is expected to clarify who holds the true psychological and athletic advantage in the highly competitive quarter-mile division. Entering [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":237462,"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":[258,256,4718,2462,6622,52578,14384,257,11502,254],"class_list":["post-237461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-hall","tag-kebinatshipi","tag-mighty","tag-news","tag-showdown","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/237461","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=237461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}