Football missing as athletics dominates

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Roll call: Morule announcing the nominees PIC: MORERI SEJAKGOMO

The country's most popular sport, football was again missing when the roll call of local sport's finest was called out in Gaborone this week.

The full list of nominees for the 42nd Botswana Sport Awards to be held on August 12, is out and it is athletics that received the most nominations.

Athletics received nine nominations, but surprisingly, Tebogo Letsile, tipped to grab the Sportsperson of the Year award, is only recognised for the Junior Sportsperson of the Year award.

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