Debutante Gives Botswana Women First Olympiad Win

The win helped the Botswana female team to a meritorious 2-2 draw against highly rated Yemen. Fide Master (FM) Boikhutso Mudongo and Tshepiso Lopang drew with their Yemeni opponents while Ontiretse Sabure lost as Botswana women recovered from a first round 4-0 loss to Albania. While Sebetso was making her debut in the Olympiad, Mudongo, Sabure and Lopang have been competing at the event since 2002.

Meanwhile,the Botswana men's team opened the 2008 Olympiad in Dresden, Germany brightly on Friday with a 4-0 demolition of Ghana but faltered 3-1 in the next round to Indonesia.