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Africa is represented in most disciplines at the Paris Games and every athlete is striving for a medal. RFI looks at a selection of the favourites. <\/em><\/p>\n South Sudan soars in basketball<\/strong><\/p>\n Just 13 years after gaining independence, South Sudan will be a star attraction in the men’s basketball competition. It’s the only country to represent the African continent in men’s basketball, although Nigeria is in the women’s competition.<\/p>\n South Sudan<\/a>‘s Bright Stars qualified for the 2024 Paris Games via their first…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Africa is represented in most disciplines at the Paris Games and every athlete is striving for a medal. RFI looks at a selection of the favourites. South Sudan soars in basketball Just 13 years after gaining independence, South Sudan will be a star attraction in the men’s basketball competition. It’s the only country to represent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177435,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651290:6a6073e1942b1430634fd20741052766:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4380,7884,430,257,12022,15620,254,10745],"class_list":["post-177434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-athletes","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-south-africa-today","tag-watch"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn06.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00651290:6a6073e1942b1430634fd20741052766:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177434"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177434\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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