Former African record holder, Akani Simbine and reigning World U20 champion, Letsile Tebogo, believe they are on the right track as far as their preparations go for the Paris 2024 Olympics after impressing at the London Diamond League meeting last Saturday.<\/p>\n
Simbine ran 9.86, just two hundredth of a second off his lifetime best (9.84) while Tebogo set a new 9.88 personal best.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m happy with today\u2019s performance, I\u2019ve run a season\u2019s best. I think we\u2019ve got the time right now and so it\u2019s time to fix up a little bit of the race ahead of the Olympics. It feels good and I\u2019m happy with my race.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a huge confidence ahead of the Games, knowing the shape I\u2019m in right now and knowing what we need to work on just in the last week.
\nI\u2019m feeling good going into the Games and I\u2019m excited for it,\u201d says Simbine who has finished fourth and fifth in the event at the last two Olympics.<\/p>\n
Tebogo is also feeling great ahead of the Games and will feel confident he can make the final and win a medal like she did last year at the World Athletics Championships.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m feeling great, we\u2019re on the right track for the Olympics. Now I\u2019m heading back to the camp in Paris to work out the final touches for the Olympics,\u201d said the 21 year old Tebogo.<\/p>\n
The duo and Kenya\u2019s Ferdinand Omanyala will be seeking to deliver Africa\u2019s first Olympic 100m gold in the history of the Games.<\/p>\n
Since 1996 when Frankie Fredericks of Namibia won the second of his two Olympic Games silver medals in the men\u2019s 100m, African sprinters have failed to make it to the podium.<\/p>\n
The nearest any African sprinter has come was Simbine\u2019s fourth place finish three years ago in Tokyo, Japan, five years after he ended up in fifth place in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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