{"id":238144,"date":"2026-07-05T06:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-epic-showdown-in-oregon-tomorrow\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T06:22:47","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T04:22:47","slug":"botswana-epic-showdown-in-oregon-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-epic-showdown-in-oregon-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Epic Showdown in Oregon Tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Gaborone \u2014 When the world&#8217;s elite quarter-milers descend upon the University of Oregon&#8217;s iconic Hayward Field for the Prefontaine Classic tomorrow, track and field fans will witness a tactical masterclass fueled by a bruising inter-continental rivalry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The men&#8217;s 400-metres race is shaping up to be the marquee event of the weekend, as Botswana&#8217;s formidable tandem of Collen Kebinatshipi and Bayapo Ndori square off against a powerhouse American lineup on the US soil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to industry insiders,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202607030091.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 When the world&#8217;s elite quarter-milers descend upon the University of Oregon&#8217;s iconic Hayward Field for the Prefontaine Classic tomorrow, track and field fans will witness a tactical masterclass fueled by a bruising inter-continental rivalry. The men&#8217;s 400-metres race is shaping up to be the marquee event of the weekend, as Botswana&#8217;s formidable tandem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,15777,257,42829,11502,254,8839],"class_list":["post-238144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-epic","tag-news","tag-oregon","tag-showdown","tag-tomorrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238144","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=238144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}