{"id":215329,"date":"2025-11-30T21:40:21","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-smit-defends-namibias-olympic-representation\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T21:40:21","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T19:40:21","slug":"namibia-smit-defends-namibias-olympic-representation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-smit-defends-namibias-olympic-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Smit Defends Namibia&#8217;s Olympic Representation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\"><em>Former Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) secretary general Joan Smit has criticised those questioning why Namibia was represented by only four athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Speaking to Desert FM recently Smit said: &#8220;Everybody is asking why we only had four athletes at the Paris Olympic Games. But nobody asked what was needed to get the athletes to qualify for the Paris Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;What was the problem or the issues that we did not qualify more than four athletes?&#8221; she asked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size:...<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511280638.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Namibia National Olympic Committee (NNOC) secretary general Joan Smit has criticised those questioning why Namibia was represented by only four athletes at the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Speaking to Desert FM recently Smit said: &#8220;Everybody is asking why we only had four athletes at the Paris Olympic Games. But nobody asked what was needed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":215330,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,7820,4706,724,9052,257,9702,10447,38003,254],"class_list":["post-215329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-defends","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibias","tag-news","tag-olympic","tag-representation","tag-smit","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/215329","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=215329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}