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Quiet Tebogo's legs to 'do the talking' at Tokyo Worlds

Botswana's Letsile Tebogo at the 200m at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games on August 08, in Paris, France. [AFP]

Olympic 200m champion Letsile Tebogo said on Tuesday he would let his “legs do the talking” in his battle with brash American Noah Lyles at the World Championships in Tokyo.

The softly spoken Botswanan won his country’s first Olympic gold medal in any sport in Paris last year, where Lyles finished third.

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