{"id":14251,"date":"2018-09-07T22:25:03","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T22:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14251"},"modified":"2018-09-07T22:25:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T22:25:03","slug":"senegal-first-african-nation-to-host-an-olympic-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=14251","title":{"rendered":"Senegal first African nation to host an Olympic event"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"88.3941039566\">\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/senegal.html\">Senegal<\/a> is set to become the first African country to host an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/olympics.html\">Olympic<\/a>\u00a0event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday said its executive board picked Senegal in a four-nation hosting contest for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Botswana, Nigeria and Tunisia were the other bidders.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is time for Africa. Africa is the home of many successful and prominent Olympic athletes,&#8221; IOC President Thomas Bach said. &#8220;Africa is a continent of youth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Senegal&#8217;s nomination is expected to be formally approved by the IOC during its meeting in Buenos Aires, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/argentina.html\">Argentina<\/a>\u00a0in October.<\/p>\n<p>The West African nation will host the fourth edition of the Summer Youth Games in its capital Dakar, the new city of Diamniadio and the coastal resort of Saly.<\/p>\n<p>According to the IOC, Senegal\u2019s project is tied in with its overarching development strategy, notably the national government\u2019s &#8220;Emerging Senegal\u2019&#8221; plan, which envisions major economic and infrastructure improvements.<\/p>\n<p>After Senegal officials sign a host contract in Buenos Aires, they will begin a &#8220;co-construction phase with the IOC,&#8221; the Olympic body said.<\/p>\n<p>The choice of Senegal followed a unanimous vote by the IOC earlier this year during the Winter Olympics in South Korea&#8217;s Pyeongchang\u00a0to award the Youth Games to the African continent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senegal is set to become the first African country to host an\u00a0Olympic\u00a0event. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) on Friday said its executive board picked Senegal in a four-nation hosting contest for the 2022 Youth Olympic Games. Botswana, Nigeria and Tunisia were the other bidders. &#8220;It is time for Africa. Africa is the home of many&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":14252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}