{"id":220892,"date":"2026-01-18T11:25:55","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:25:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-baa-braces-for-busy-2026-season\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:25:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T09:25:55","slug":"botswana-baa-braces-for-busy-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-baa-braces-for-busy-2026-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Baa Braces for Busy 2026 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Gaborone \u2014 Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) is bracing for a hectic 2026 season that will feature, among others, the Botswana Golden Grand Prix and the World Athletics Relays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"46\">The BAA calendar is packed from January to December, with several international competitions lined up. BAA acting president, Oabona Theetso, said in addition to the marquee events, the association would continue with its series of local meets to give athletes opportunities to qualify for major competitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">He said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601160049.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Botswana Athletics Association (BAA) is bracing for a hectic 2026 season that will feature, among others, the Botswana Golden Grand Prix and the World Athletics Relays. The BAA calendar is packed from January to December, with several international competitions lined up. BAA acting president, Oabona Theetso, said in addition to the marquee events, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":220893,"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":[2461],"tags":[258,256,29459,4718,2462,22346,12811,257,8098,254],"class_list":["post-220892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-baa","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-braces","tag-busy","tag-news","tag-season","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\/220892","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=220892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}