Amos: A promising career cut short

The then-Minister of Sport, Shaw Kgathi, had already left London as he did not think the team stood a chance of getting a medal. But Nijel Amos not only won a silver medal, but he also set the 800m World Junior Record and National Record with his time of 1:41.73. However, the promising career was cut short by injuries and a doping ban, forcing the Marobela-born star into early retirement.

This week, he took MmegiSport down memory lane as he narrated his mixed journey. Amos said when he reached the Olympics final, he had just become a Junior World Champion two weeks prior. “The plan was for me to go and get experience from the Olympics, which I was going to use in the next Olympics, Rio 2016, where I would have been 21 years old.