Seven athletes will signify Rwanda within the 2024 Olympic Video games that can happen in Paris, France, from July 26 to August 11.
They embrace two in athletics, three in biking, one in fencing and one in swimming.
In a phone interview with Occasions Sport, Jean Claude Rugigana, the Government Director on the Rwanda Nationwide Olympic and Sports activities Committee (RNOSC) stated that each one athletes will journey for Paris on July 6, three weeks earlier than the Olympic Video games kick off.
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Occasions Sport additionally understands that yet one more athlete shall be added to the swimming roster to make it eight athletes in complete to signify the nation within the Paris Video games.
The athletes confirmed for Paris 2024 Video games embrace Yves Nimubona and Clementine Mukandanga who will compete within the males’s and ladies’s Athletics respectively whereas biking has three representatives particularly Eric Manizabayo who will compete in males’s highway race whereas Diane Ingabire and Jazilla Mwamikazi are confirmed to compete in ladies’s class.
In the meantime, Oscar Peyre Mitilla Cyusa (males) is the one athlete who will signify Rwanda in swimming whereas Tufaha Uwihoreye (males) will compete in fencing.
Paris was awarded to host the 2024 Olympic Video games on the 131st IOC Session held in Lima, Peru, on 13 September 2017. After a number of withdrawals that left solely Paris and Los Angeles in competition, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) accepted a course of to concurrently award the 2024 and 2028 Summer season Olympics to the 2 remaining candidate cities.
Having beforehand hosted the Video games in 1900 and 1924, Paris will change into the second metropolis to host the Summer season Olympics 3 times, after London which hosted the 1908, 1948 and 2012 Video games.
Paris 2024 will mark the centenary of Paris 1924 and Chamonix 1924 (which in flip marks the centenary of the Winter Olympics), and these would be the sixth Olympic Video games hosted by France (three Summer season Olympics and three Winter Olympics) and the primary French Olympics because the 1992 Winter Video games in Albertville.
The Summer season Video games will return to the standard four-year Olympiad cycle, after the 2020 Tokyo Olympics have been postponed till 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
