{"id":2839,"date":"2025-09-03T19:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/?p=2839"},"modified":"2025-09-03T19:00:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T11:00:17","slug":"exclusive-documentary-on-letsile-tebogo-launches-on-world-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/exclusive-documentary-on-letsile-tebogo-launches-on-world-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive documentary on Letsile Tebogo launches on World Athletics+"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>From Gaborone to Olympic gold, Letsile Tebogo\u2019s journey is one of raw talent, fearless ambition, and unshakable spirit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Victories and world records from a young age marked his path, and through triumph and loss, he only ran faster. Now, with the world watching, his eyes turn to the World Athletics Championships Tokyo 25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The exclusive two-part documentary <em>Built for Speed: The Letsile Tebogo Story<\/em> tells the story of a sprinter who continues to carry the hopes of his nation, proving that speed is more than just a number \u2013 it\u2019s who he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The documentary is split into two episodes, \u2018<em>Start Line<\/em>\u2019 and \u2018<em>No Looking Back<\/em>\u2019, with the first episode available now on YouTube. The second episode will be released on YouTube on 10 September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Built for Speed | The Letsile Tebogo Story | Start Line\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tPM6UJFGkTs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As well as in-depth interviews with Tebogo, as he reflects on his journey from young footballer and sprinter to world U20 champion and Olympic 200m champion, the documentary includes insight from Jamaican sprint legend Usain Bolt and Tebogo\u2019s coach, Kebonyemodisa &#8216;Dose&#8217; Mosimanyane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhere to start with this kid?\u201d says Bolt. \u201cThe talent is there, the confidence is there also, which is always important \u2013 going out there and competing at a high level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHe is going to be a great talent. No doubt, somebody that I know is going to go a long way.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After splitting his time between football and athletics as a child, it was Bolt who helped inspire Tebogo to focus on track.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBy the time I did that transition (from football to athletics), Usain Bolt \u2013 he was the hottest thing in the sport,\u201d says Tebogo. \u201cEven though he retired in 2017, it went on up to 2019 when we came in, we still knew that nobody could beat him. I wanted to be like him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But it hasn\u2019t been a smooth path to success. The death of Tebogo\u2019s mother in 2024 made him question whether there was a future for him in athletics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFirst of all, I felt like it\u2019s over for me. It\u2019s over for athletics,\u201d Tebogo recalls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI remember I stayed more than three weeks of doing nothing, just home sleeping. I didn\u2019t have the motivation to even start training, up until one day my teammates came here, they fetched me: \u2018Let us go, watch us train. Maybe something will click.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI went, I just stayed on the stands and watched. And I thought to myself, would she be happy if I left the sport?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople wouldn\u2019t know that I\u2019m just an ordinary person. Only when I get on to the track, I become somebody different.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Gaborone to Olympic gold, Letsile Tebogo\u2019s journey is one of raw talent, fearless ambition, and unshakable spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-video","tag-athletics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2.jpg",1920,1202,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2-300x188.jpg",300,188,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2-768x481.jpg",640,401,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2-1024x641.jpg",640,401,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2-1536x962.jpg",1536,962,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2.jpg",1920,1202,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"info":["admin"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/category\/video\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Video<\/a>","tag_info":"Video","comment_count":"0","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/START-LINE-2.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2843,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions\/2843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.infinitysport.asia\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}