{"id":1078,"date":"2025-12-06T05:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/?p=1078"},"modified":"2025-12-06T05:13:32","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T05:13:32","slug":"s-a-eyes-2036-or2040-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/06\/s-a-eyes-2036-or2040-olympics\/sports\/","title":{"rendered":"S. A Eyes 2036 or2040 Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BID-Olympic-South-africa.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1079\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BID-Olympic-South-africa.jpg 960w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BID-Olympic-South-africa-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/BID-Olympic-South-africa-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>BID Olympic South africa<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>On November 13, South Africa announced plans to bid for the 2036 or 2040 Olympic and Paralympic Games, aiming to be the first African host.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cape Town, likely the candidate city, previously bid for the 2004 Games. The government has engaged with the IOC on feasibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>South Africa has hosted major global events, including Rugby, Cricket, and Soccer World Cups, and will co-host the 2027 Cricket World Cup, highlighting its growing capacity for large-scale international sporting events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On November 13, South Africa announced plans to bid for the 2036 or 2040 Olympic and Paralympic Games, aiming to be the first African host. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1080,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1078\/revisions\/1080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedawnrwanda.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}