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World Cup success key to bid

Associated Press

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

NEW YORK -- The head of South African organizers for next year's World Cup thinks a successful tournament could lead to the Olympics being hosted on that continent for the first time in 2020. "The IOC decided to give South America its first Olympics, so the only continent now without an Olympics is the African continent, and therefore I think it's something that the IOC certainly will have to begin to think about," organizing committee chief executive officer Danny Jordaan told The Associated P ...

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