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African fans have not received well an Olympics highlights video for the Paris 2024 Games due to its failure to recognise any African gold medallist despite their impressive performances.
African fans have blasted the Olympics for failing to include champions from the continent in their post-game highlights.
The Olympics released a highlights reel of the biggest moments of the Paris 2024 Games but no African gold medallist made it to the video.
Despite Beatrice Chebet winning an Olympics double, Letsile Tebogo stunning Noah Lyles to win 200m gold, Joshua Cheptegei running a dominant 10,000m race and Faith Kipyegon making history as the first 1,500m runner to claim three straight Olympics titles, it was still not enough to make it into the highlight video and African fans were furious.
“Letsile Tebogo, Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet & Joshua Cheptegei's exclusion from this highlight reel is so f**king disrespectful. There isn't a single African Gold medallist in this video,” one fan observed.
“Emmanuel Wanyonyi - Youngest winner of 800 metres in Olympics history. Faith Kipyegon - First woman ever to win 3 Olympic golds in a single-track category. Beatrice Chebet, Letsile Tebogo and many others from Africa didn't deserve a slot in the highlights?” questioned another.
“I guess Olympics didn’t have any Africans participating,” was the sarcastic response from another fan.
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“No single African participated in this Olympics? Didn't Tebogo, Beatrice Chebet and Joshua Cheptegei break Olympics records? Where are they? Is it that you discriminated Africans?”
“This video is available in my location, but I can't see any of our athletes. Should I go get my eyes checked?” asked another observer.
“Faith Kipyegon of Kenya broke an Olympic record in the 1,500m, Tamirat Tola of Ethiopia broke an Olympic record in marathon. Shame on you.”
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“So Letsile Tebogo, Faith Kipyegon, Beatrice Chebet, Emmanuel Wanyonyi, and Joshua Cheptegei didn’t appear on cameras? Were records not broken by those great Africans?” posed another disappointed fan.
Kenya was the top African country at the Olympics, 17th globally, with 11 medals, four gold, two silver and five bronze, followed by South Africa, 44th globally, with six medals (one gold, three silver and two bronze) as Ethiopia had one gold and three silver medals, Egypt, three medals, a gold, silver and bronze same as Tunisia.
Botswana had two medals, a gold and silver, same as Uganda as Morocco won one gold.
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