{"id":22741,"date":"2026-01-22T07:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T05:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/ioc-has-not-received-any-formal-communication-with-trump-regarding-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:33:39","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:33:39","slug":"ioc-has-not-received-any-formal-communication-with-trump-regarding-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ioc-has-not-received-any-formal-communication-with-trump-regarding-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"IOC has not received any formal communication with Trump regarding Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">International Olympic Committee President, Kirsty Coventry, says she has not yet had any formal communication with United States (US) President, Donald Trump, on the Los Angeles Olympic Games in 2028.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The US will be co-hosting the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) World Cup later this year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">FIFA President, Gianni\u00a0Infantino\u00a0has repeatedly met with Trump in the run-up to the event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">But Coventry says she is looking forward to meeting US Vice-President, JD Vance next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Vance and a US delegation will attend the opening ceremony of the Winter Games in Italy on February 6.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span style=\"background-color: var(--global--color-background); color: var(--global--color-primary); font-family: var(--global--font-secondary); font-size: var(--global--font-size-base);\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21759,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-22741","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":null,"news_description":"International Olympic Committee","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25937,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/22741\/revisions\/25937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=22741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}