{"id":199496,"date":"2025-06-04T12:41:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:41:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-to-host-50-years-of-independence-swimming-tournament\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T12:41:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T10:41:53","slug":"angola-to-host-50-years-of-independence-swimming-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-to-host-50-years-of-independence-swimming-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola to Host &#8217;50 Years of Independence&#8217; Swimming Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Luanda \u2014 The Angolan Swimming Federation (FAN) is organizing an international &#8220;50 Years of Independence&#8221; swimming tournament to take place from May 30 to June 1 at the Alvalade Swimming Pool in Luanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">Ana Lima, the FAN chairwoman, told ANGOP that despite the absence of the country&#8217;s two best male senior swimmers, the national team will include Lia Lima, who was the runner-up in the 200-meter butterfly at the 2024 tournament in Luanda.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">Salvador Gordo is absent due to unknown reasons for not&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505280003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda \u2014 The Angolan Swimming Federation (FAN) is organizing an international &#8220;50 Years of Independence&#8221; swimming tournament to take place from May 30 to June 1 at the Alvalade Swimming Pool in Luanda. Ana Lima, the FAN chairwoman, told ANGOP that despite the absence of the country&#8217;s two best male senior swimmers, the national team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,3941,4263,6937,7690,257,254,10966,6966,5114],"class_list":["post-199496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-host","tag-independence","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swimming","tag-tournament","tag-years"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199496","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}