By Nick Butler

Tuelo Serufho will return to his BNOC chief executive role in September ©TwitterTuelo Serufho will return to his role as chief executive of the Botswana National Olympic Committee (BNOC) in September following a successful stint as head of the Organising Committee for the Gabarone 2014 African Youth Games (BAYGOC).


In preparation for the work at the successful African Youth Games in May, which featured young athletes competing across 21 sports in 13 venuesSerufho temporarily relinquished the BNOC role he had held since 2009.

Many thought this would lead to him stepping down on a permanent basis but the official has repeatedly insisted this will not be the case, and has now confirmed he will return in two months time.  

"I will return to BNOC in September," he told the Botswana Gazette.

"BAYGOC is set up in a way that all its operations will stop in August.

"From now until August numerous people deployed in the Committee will gradually leave until BAYGOC is no more."

Tuelo Serufho was the head of the Organising Committee for the recent African Youth Games held in Gabarone ©BNOCTuelo Serufho was the head of the Organising Committee for the recent African Youth Games held in Gabarone ©BNOC






Botswana have competed at the last nine Summer Olympic Games, and at London 2012 they secured a first medal courtesy of 800 metres runner Nijel Amos, who took silver in a race Kenya's David Rudisha broke the world record.

The Southern African country also won 31 medals, including six gold, on home soil at the African Youth Games, to put them in eighth place on the medals table. 

Along with BNOC President Negroes Malealea Kgosietsile, Serufho will be working to improve these performances building up to Rio 2016, as well as securing the future of the organisation in a commercial sense. 

Serufho did however confirm that BAYGOC is still operating and are currently finalising reports and payments for accommodation fees, catering and other services rendered during the Games.

This report  will be submitted to the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (ANOCA) as well all countries that participated in the tournament.

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