{"id":13317,"date":"2012-08-09T02:17:29","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T00:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/olympics-nairobi-planning-to-bid-for-2024-olympics-kenyan-pm\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T02:17:29","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T00:17:29","slug":"olympics-nairobi-planning-to-bid-for-2024-olympics-kenyan-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-nairobi-planning-to-bid-for-2024-olympics-kenyan-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Nairobi planning to bid for 2024 Olympics-Kenyan PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Karolos Grohmann<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s capital Nairobi is<br \/>\nplanning to bid for the 2024 Olympics and become the first<br \/>\nAfrican city to host the Games, the prime minister said on<br \/>\nWednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, speaking at the Kenya<br \/>\nNational House today, announced that the Republic of Kenya will<br \/>\nbe starting the process of pitching to host the Games of the<br \/>\n33rd Olympiad in 2024,&#8221; a Kenya House announcement said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If successful, these Games will be the first ever held in<br \/>\nAfrica.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The International Olympic Committee will elect the 2024 host<br \/>\ncity in 2017, with official campaigning to start two years<br \/>\nearlier.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There have been African bids in the past, most recently with<br \/>\nEgypt&#8217;s Cairo unsuccessfully bidding for the 2008 Olympics that<br \/>\nwere awarded to Beijing.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Cape Town had also bid for the 2004 Games,<br \/>\nstaged by Athens. The country did, however, host the 2010 soccer<br \/>\nWorld Cup, the first to be held on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 2016 Olympics will be held in Rio de Janeiro &#8211; the first<br \/>\nin South America &#8211; while Tokyo, Madrid and Istanbul are bidding<br \/>\nfor the 2020 Games, with a decision to be taken next year.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Karolos Grohmann; Editing by Alison Williams)<\/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 Karolos Grohmann LONDON Aug 8 (Reuters) &#8211; Kenya&#8217;s capital Nairobi is planning to bid for the 2024 Olympics and become the first African city to host the Games, the prime minister said on Wednesday. &#8220;Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga, speaking at the Kenya National House today, announced that the Republic of Kenya will be [&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-13317","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\/13317","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=13317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}