Botswana’s Letsile Tebogo became the first African to win the Olympic 200 metres on Thursday as he—and Covid—upstaged Noah Lyles’s plans for a sprint double in Paris. 

Tebogo, 21, was able to ease up at the end and still clocked an African record of 19.46sec for gold, with American Kenny Bednarek taking silver in 19.62sec and Lyles fading to bronze in 19.70sec.