{"id":6075,"date":"2020-02-25T17:53:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lovinsaudi.com\/?p=6075"},"modified":"2020-02-25T17:59:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T14:59:00","slug":"saudi-arabia-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/en\/news\/saudi-arabia-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Saudi Arabia About To Bid To Host The Olympics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brace yourself, Saudi!<\/p>\n<p>Rumours are rife and Saudis are on the edge of their seats, is Saudi about to bid to host the Summer Olympics 2032?<\/p>\n<div id=\"taw\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"med\">\n<p id=\"fprs\" class=\"p64x9c card-section\" role=\"heading\" aria-level=\"3\">Tokyo is nailed for 2020. Paris for 2024 and LA for 2028&#8230; but what about 2032?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tvcap\">A BIG announcement is happening tonight in Saudi, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news1.news\/2020\/02\/al-faisal-unveils-tuesday-the-largest-sporting-event-in-saudi-arabia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">News 1.<\/a> There have been teasers that suggest the government might be about to bid to host the ultimate sporting event. Gahhhh&#8230; watch this space!<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--infeed--><\/p>\n<h2>Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, Chairman of the Saudi Sports Authority will make an announcement tonight<\/h2>\n<p>IF the rumours are right, Saudi will be competing with the likes of Australia for the honour. In the last few years alone, Saudi has proven its capabilities, with the ability to host a variety of sporting events and, most recently, the capacity the host tourists who are keen to get to know Saudi.<\/p>\n<p>News 1 reported a press conference will take place at the General Authority for Sport, Prince Faisal bin Fahd Olympic in Riyadh tonight at 8pm.<\/p>\n<p>This will undoubtedly be a HUGE moment for the Kingdom. Follow Lovin Saudi for the latest updates, we&#8217;ll announce them LIVE as they come through.<\/p>\n<h2>Waiting on the announcement like<\/h2>\n<p><iframe class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/11sBLVxNs7v6WA\" width=\"480\" height=\"217\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/cheer-cheering-11sBLVxNs7v6WA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brace yourself, Saudi! Rumours are rife and Saudis are on the edge of their seats, is Saudi about to bid to host the Summer Olympics 2032? Tokyo is nailed for 2020. Paris for 2024 and LA for 2028&#8230; but what about 2032? A BIG announcement is happening tonight in Saudi, according to News 1. 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Follow Lovin Saudi for the latest updates, we&#8217;ll announce them LIVE as they come through.<\/p>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"text_block","content":"<h2>Waiting on the announcement like<\/h2>\n"},{"acf_fc_layout":"embed_block","embed_item":"<p><iframe class=\"giphy-embed\" src=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/embed\/11sBLVxNs7v6WA\" width=\"480\" height=\"217\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/giphy.com\/gifs\/cheer-cheering-11sBLVxNs7v6WA\">via GIPHY<\/a><\/p>\n"}],"legacy_image":"","legacy_full_image":"","lovin_video_link":false,"lovin_video_link_webm":false,"disable_ads":false,"slots_script_override":"","ad_horizontal_top_desktop":"","ad_vertical_left_desktop":"","ad_vertical_right_desktop":"","ad_horizontal_top_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_bottom_tablet":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_1":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_2":"","ad_horizontal_mobile_3":"","article_ad_infeed_slot":"","ad_square_podcast":"","disable_lovin_hearts":false,"lovin_heart_title":"","show_sponsor":false,"sponsor_image":false,"sponsor_name":"","sponsor_content":"","sponsor_website":"","sponsor_facebook":"","sponsor_twitter":"","sponsor_instagram":"","enable_reveal_feature":false,"reveal_image":false,"legacy_sponsor_name":"","legacy_sponsor_website":"","legacy_sponsor_content":"","legacy_sponsor_image":"","legacy_meta_tags":"","is_guest_user":false,"episode_number":"","embed_code":"","episode_introduction":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1828"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lovin.co\/riyadh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}