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'I do have COVID.
I tested positive around 5 AM on Tuesday morning.
I woke up in the middle of the night feeling chills, aching, sore throat, and those were a lot of the symptoms I’ve always had right before getting COVID.
We tested it and it came back positive, so we quickly quarantined in a hotel near the village and got me on as much medication as we legally could to make sure that my body was able to keep the momentum going.
I still wanted to run, we decided it was still possible, so we just stayed away from everybody and tried to take it round by round.
I knew if I wanted to come out here and win, I would have to give everything I’ve had from the get-go.
I didn’t have any time to save energy.
That was the strategy.
It definitely affected my performance.
I am more proud of myself than anything.
Coming out and getting the bronze medal with COVID.
We didn’t want everybody to go into a panic.
We wanted to be able to compete.
We wanted to be able to make it as discreet as possible and you don’t want to tell your competitors you are sick.
'The American world champion at the distance was hoping to become the first man since Usain Bolt at the Rio 2016 Games to secure both the 100m and 200m titles.
He had managed to bounce back to win 100m gold in Paris, but this time could not compensate for what was again the slowest reaction time of the pack.
**Tebogo** crossed in 19.
46 for his first Olympic title and the United States’ **Kenny Bednarek** snapped up silver.
Lyles was slowest off the blocks in 0.
173 seconds but had clawed his way up to third by the 20-meter mark and remained in bronze medal position for the rest of the race, finishing in 19.
70.
Tebogo and Bednarek battled for their positions, the American holding the lead just after the halfway point, but it was the Botswanan’s race to lose from the 120 meters mark and he never looked close to letting go.
Tebogo, 21, became the first man from his country to win an Olympic 200 meters final and dedicated the medal to his mother, **Elizabeth Seratiwa**, who passed away last May.