Botswana at the 2012 Summer Paralympics explained

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Npcname:Paralympic Association of Botswana
Games:Summer Paralympics
Year:2012
Location:London
Competitors:0
Sports:0
Gold:0
Silver:0
Bronze:0
Appearances:auto

Botswana was scheduled to compete at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom from August 29 to September 9, 2012.[1]

The country had selected a single athlete, visually impaired runner Tshotlego Golden, who would take part in the men's 200m sprint (T13). However, Botswana was forced to withdraw at the last moment, mere hours before the opening ceremony, when the Botswana National Olympic Committee cancelled its financial support, citing "financial irregularities" in the national Paralympics body.[2] [3]

These were the second consecutive Games in which Botswana had withdrawn at the last moment; in 2008, the country's sole athlete, defending champion sprinter Tshotlego Morama, was injured shortly before the Games began, and had to withdraw.[4]

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

Men’s Track and Road Events

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Botswana - 2012 Paralympic News, Athletes, Medals. LOCOG. 20 August 2012. 20 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120820235330/http://www.london2012.com/paralympics/country/botswana/index.html. dead.
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2012/aug/30/paralympics-malawi-botswana-withdraw-teams?newsfeed=true "Paralympics 2012: Malawi and Botswana withdraw teams"
  3. http://www.mmegi.bw/index.php?sid=8&aid=907&dir=2012/August/Friday31 "Paralympic athlete's participation botched"
  4. https://archive.today/20121130125415/http://72.167.255.126/index.php?sid=8&aid=33&dir=2008/September/Friday5 "Botswna locked out of Paralympics"