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For Connor Grist, the idea of representing Zimbabwe at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games began with a conversation in a car with his then-coach.<\/p>\n
Two years later, the 17-year-old is preparing to compete on one of the biggest stages of his young career, guided by a simple belief: the work you put in is what you get out.<\/p>\n
Grist will represent Zimbabwe in the 400-metre freestyle, his main event, and the 200-metre freestyle at the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar, Senegal, from October 31 to November 13.<\/p>\n
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Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> For Connor Grist, the idea of representing Zimbabwe at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games began with a conversation in a car with his then-coach. Two years later, the 17-year-old is preparing to compete on one of the biggest stages of his young career, guided by a simple belief: the work you put in is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,11292,42175,7421,55759,257,254,10966,421,7726],"class_list":["post-248906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bigger","tag-connor","tag-dream","tag-grist","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swimming","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-zimbabwes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248906","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=248906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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