{"id":49376,"date":"2026-10-29T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=49376"},"modified":"2026-10-29T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:43:24","slug":"sascoc-to-announce-olympic-hosting-bid-plans","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sascoc-to-announce-olympic-hosting-bid-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"SASCOC to announce Olympic hosting bid plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) will make details public later today when it officially announces its preferred interest to host the 2036 or 2040 Olympic and Paralympic Games.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The details will include government backing in the form of financial guarantees. SASCOC&#8217;s ambitious plans are unfolding against a difficult administrative and economic backdrop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Several national federations are facing challenges, while athletes must often rely on their own resources to compete internationally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">SASCOC is proposing a multi-city approach spreading events across Cape Town, Western Cape Province, Johannesburg, Gauteng Province and Durban, KwaZulu-Natal Province to leverage existing infrastructure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Should SA be successful, it would become the first African country to host the sporting spectacle.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23811,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-49376","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"SASCOC to make announcement on Olympic and Paralympic Games","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49376","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49378,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/49376\/revisions\/49378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=49376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}