{"id":10190,"date":"2012-04-23T16:26:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/swimming-monaco-princess-to-host-south-african-olympic-team\/"},"modified":"2012-04-23T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-04-23T14:26:57","slug":"swimming-monaco-princess-to-host-south-african-olympic-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/swimming-monaco-princess-to-host-south-african-olympic-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimming-Monaco princess to host South African Olympic team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Thahir Asmal<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DURBAN, April 23<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Princess Charlene of Monaco<br \/>\nwill host a two-week training camp for South Africa&#8217;s swimming<br \/>\nteam in the build-up to the London Olympics, officials said on<br \/>\nMonday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As Charlene Wittstock, the princess swam for South Africa in<br \/>\nthe 4&#215;100 metres medley at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where her<br \/>\nteam finished fifth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Swimming South Africa (SSA) said its squad would go to<br \/>\nMonaco from July 7-22 in the final leg of preparations before<br \/>\nheading to the Games, which start on July 27.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The team will be going into camp there,&#8221; SSA president Jace<br \/>\nNaidoo told Reuters. &#8220;It was all finalised over the last few<br \/>\ndays.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Princess Charlene would provide facilities for the team, as<br \/>\nwell as meals and accommodation, with SSA and the South African<br \/>\nSport Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) taking care<br \/>\nof the travel arrangements, officials said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Olympic swimming squad is expected to be<br \/>\nannounced in mid-May and will spend time in Spain and Italy<br \/>\nbefore heading to Monaco.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Editing by Clare Fallon; clare.fallon@thomsonreuters.com;<br \/>\n+44 20 7542 7933; Reuters Messaging:<br \/>\nclare.fallon.reuters.com@reuters.net)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Thahir Asmal DURBAN, April 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Princess Charlene of Monaco will host a two-week training camp for South Africa&#8217;s swimming team in the build-up to the London Olympics, officials said on Monday. As Charlene Wittstock, the princess swam for South Africa in the 4&#215;100 metres medley at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where her [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}