Chinese offer athletes incentives

The Chinese ambassador, Ding Xiaowen said he was surprised to learn that Botswana has not won a single medal at the Olympics since it started taking part in the games 22 years ago.

Xiaowen said he was challenged to do something about Botswana's dearth of Olympic medals hence he came up with the pledge to give athletes courage ahead of the games. The Chinese embassy has pledged P50,000 for Botswana gold medallists, P30,000 for silver medallists and P20,000 for bronze medallists.