South Africa has proved beyond any reasonable doubt that we are able to host any major sporting events and up to so far, the way things are going with the 2010 Fifa World Cup, it puts a big stamp of approval that this country is a force to be reckoned with...and now is a front runner in a bid to host the 2020 Olympics
Of course, it goes without saying that English tabloid, Daily Star editor Howard Wheatcroft, and his journo who wrote the story titled: "World Cup fans face blood bath" with a teaser reading: "Race war declared in South Africa" must now be eating their words. They must be ashamed of themselves for practicing the lowest form of journalism by not naming their "source" (that's if they actually had any sources with their "story") and running such a defamatory article on this country. However, we shall not stoop to their level and will continue to display African culture that says Success is the best revenge.
The Pretoria News today reports that the International Olympics Committee (IOC) has backed a bid by a South African city to host the 2020 Summer Olympics and Cape Town is reportedly the front runner.
Cape Town has tried before to host the Olympics of 2004 but was unsuccesful due to infrustrucre and internal squabbles within the bidding committee. Cape Town then lost the bid to Athens.
In 1995 we succesfully hosted and won the 1995 Rugby World Cup.
Jacques Rogge of IOC, reports the Pretoria News, is to discuss the possiblity of another SA bid for the Olympics at a meeting with Zuma before the end of the World Cup. "It's always good news to see that a country like South Africa wants to bid", Rogge told the Pretoria News.
The countries that are also bidding for the 2020 games are United Arab Emirates, Dubai, Tokyo, Japan, Budapest (German City) Hungary, among others. Whether South Africa can beat these "well-developed contries" to host the 2020 Olympics remains to be seen but leaders from various spheres, including SA President JZ and LOC chairman Danny Jordaan who led the failed 2004 bid, are passionate and hopeful about it.
If SA wins this bid, you can bet your bottom dollar that English tabloid, the Daily Star, will continue to drag SA name through the mud but no one will take them seriously because you can never take the paper of such reputation seriously. Besides, I read in The Times last week that the English believe that SA citizens must adopt their style of cheering soccer players in the stadia and ditch our vuvuzelas. Now doesn't that smack colonisation and prejudice? Anyway, like their tabloid, you can never take the English seriously! Remember the row about their Prime Minister James Gordon Brown during the televised election campaign when an old woman complained about his government's administration? It just goes to show, you can never take the English seriously.
Meanwhile, South Africa keeps on going strong and focuses on major and sane developments that will enhance the image of our country and that of our continent.
If SA succeeds in its bid to host the 2020 Olympics, it will be another fisrt for South Africa and our lovely continent. Whether the English hate our beautiful country and wish us bad luck, we will continue to silence them by being succesful in major thing we do.
Yes, I am sucking up to being a patriotic citizen and you are allowed to disagree.