Let�s pick up the Rio pieces: Bravo Team BW

Botswana’s 12 athletes sent to the Rio Olympics Games touched down at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport empty-handed after the two-week sojourn to Brazil yielded nothing but near misses and outright failure. It was a campaign that had promised to improve the country’s performance at the Olympics after Nijel Amos earned Botswana the first medal in London in 2012.

But the count still stands at one Olympic medal in 10 attempts since Botswana made a debut in Moscow 36 years ago. However, the medal count should not depress a hopeful nation as other bigger countries are still battling to break their Olympic duck.

Botswana has done relatively well compared to other more advanced countries with better economies and a larger population to pick talent from. There has been stinging criticism levelled against the team for failure to add to the one medal. Some of the criticism has been harsh, considering that the team recorded a number of new feats in Rio.

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