Botswana fails to utilise home ground
Monday, July 15, 2019
At press time, the hosts had two silver and eight bronze medals. Ofentse Bakwadi who went into the championship as a favourite to win a gold medal, settled for bronze as an individual and with team kata. He told Mmegi Sport that the competition was tough especially from Arab countries such as Algeria, Egypt and Morocco because they came prepared.
“They attend K1 tournaments in Europe which is something that we hardly do. That is what made the difference between them and us. They attend training camps in Europe and we lack such exposure. If we can get such exposure we could stand up to them,” he said.
The contest had 10 beautiful young girls as finalists and unfortunately only one could wear the crown.The judges picked Anicia Gaothuse. To all those who feel their contestant should have won ahead of Anicia for whatever reason, hardly; the judges found Anicia to be the best among the best, so desist from disrespecting our newly crowned queen on social media or anywhere else, for that matter! Each of the 10 beautiful young women had supporters...