{"id":235578,"date":"2026-06-07T05:20:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tough-act-to-follow-for-commonwealth-games-team\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T05:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T03:20:16","slug":"namibia-tough-act-to-follow-for-commonwealth-games-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-tough-act-to-follow-for-commonwealth-games-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Tough Act to Follow for Commonwealth Games Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\"><em>The Namibia National Olympic Committee yesterday announced a team of 23 athletes and 16 support staff for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The athletes represent six different sporting codes and are supported by a team of coaches, managers, medical personnel, technical officials and administrators, while the team will be led by chef de mission Joseph Amakali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">It will be Namibia&#8217;s eighth participation at the games since their debut in Victoria, Canada in 1994, while they have won a total of&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050347.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>The Namibia National Olympic Committee yesterday announced a team of 23 athletes and 16 support staff for the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. The athletes represent six different sporting codes and are supported by a team of coaches, managers, medical personnel, technical officials and administrators, while the team will be led by chef de mission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235579,"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":[6991,258,256,6405,13738,6731,4706,724,257,254,7142,5039],"class_list":["post-235578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-act","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-commonwealth","tag-follow","tag-games","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-tough"],"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\/235578","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=235578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}