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Dakar 2022 Youth Olympic Games postponed until 2026
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Jul 28, 2021 08:57pm |
| Category | Announcement |
| News Date | Jul 15, 2020 08:00pm |
| Description | The 2022 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Dakar have been pushed back by four years to 2026, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has announced.
Amid widespread disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic, IOC President Thomas Bach said the organisation had mutually agreed to postpone the first Olympic event to be held in Africa following a request from Senegal President Macky Sall.
The decision was approved by the IOC Executive Board during its latest remote meeting today and will be given the green light by the Session on Friday (July 17).
The IOC said the postponement results from the "large scale of the operational challenges which the IOC, the National Olympic Committees (NOCs) and the International Federations (IFs) are facing following the postponement of the Olympic Games Tokyo 2020".
Bach claimed the Senegalese capital hosting the Games "would have meant we would have had to organise five Games in three years". |
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