The Cnoss Steering Committee met on Saturday at Terrou Bi. Among other topics discussed, preparations for the Paris 2024 and Dakar 2026 Olympic Games were the focal points on the agenda of this statutory meeting.
By Hyacinthe DIANDY – We are two months away from the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and less than two years from the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games (YOG). Enough for the Cnoss to look into the preparations for these two major events of the Olympic movement.
The meeting of its Steering Committee was therefore ideal for discussing it and highlighting the significant progress noted.
Precisely, concerning the Paris meeting next July, the inventory has been made concerning the first qualified for the moment. Namely: Combé Seck and Yves Bourhis (canoeing), Mbagnick Ndiaye (judo), Louis François Mendy (athletics), Ndèye Bineta Diongue (fencing), Bocar Diop (taekwondo) plus Idrissa Keïta (in Para-Olympic taekwondo). Moreover, immediately, a check was given, via their representative, to each person. Namely 1000 dollars, representing three months of Cape 2024. The Olympic scholarship being 4000 dollars per quarter. Note that other qualified potentials are on the attack, hoping to get the ticket that opens the doors to Paris for them.
“For the Joj, three challenges: organization, image and participation”
For the Dakar 2026 Olympic Games, things are also progressing. In a brilliant presentation, the Director of Operations of the Organizing Committee (Cojoj) took stock of the situation. For Abdou Diaw, three challenges must be met. “The challenge of organization, the challenge of image and reputation, and finally the challenge of participation.”
On the infrastructure side which must undergo a facelift, Mr. Diaw confirms the Iba Mar Diop Stadium and Tour de l’oeuf. Before announcing the start of the rehabilitation work “in a month” and which should be completed “at the end of 2025”. Before announcing some figures, such as the number of disciplines increased to 35, with 4000 young athletes in an age group between 15 and 18 years old.
After the presentation of the activity and financial reports, under the eyes of the vice-president of Cnoss, Ibrahima Wade, who directed the work, the president of Cnoss, Diagna Ndiaye, absent from the national territory, intervened, from Lausanne, to congratulate the members of the Steering Committee and ask everyone to focus on Paris 2024 and Dakar 2026.
The State ready to support the Cnoss
In his speech, El Hadji Tanor Gning, representing the Minister of Youth, Sports and Culture, assured the assistance of State support for the Paris Games and those of Dakar 2026. The director of Cabinet of the new boss of Senegalese sport has also informed of an upcoming meeting between Ms. Khady Diène Gaye and the Cnoss office.
Finally, two major pieces of information were announced at the end of the work. First concerning the Senegalese Badminton Federation which was distinguished in China by the world body, as the best African Federation for the promotion of the said discipline. In swimming, Senegalese Mohamed Diop was elected president of the African Confederation.
Joj 2026: 200 young people from Matam will benefit from integration support
Two hundred young people from the Matam region will benefit from integration support, as part of the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) planned for 2026, in Dakar, announced Moustapha Diop, project manager of the Fit Senegal initiative at the NGO Partnership.
According to him, this support will be provided with the territorial actors who will be supported within the framework of the youth integration project, through “an integration path which will be structured in accordance with a certain number of professions which have been cited as having a link with the event.
In this perspective, he said, “young people will be oriented according to the situation and socio-economic context of each person”, in relation to “the reality of the environment of each geographical area”.
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