The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) will send its biggest team since the 2008 Beijing Olympics, to the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
The preparations for this year’s Games have started in earnest exactly six months before the opening ceremony.
But the biggest challenge that SASCOC is facing is sponsorship for its team of 228 athletes and 25 coaches.
SASCOC acting president Barry Hendricks says the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) has come on board as a broadcasting partner.
Hendricks, “We have got our house in order, we have got our team in order, and we are busy preparing for that. It is about bringing on these partners to assist us with funding and I’m pleased to announce already that a few organisations have come forward, one of the biggest is the SABC.”
“They are now in consultation with us as a media partner and we look forward to signing that contract with them in the near future – just one small contractual change is needed for us to put pen to paper once that is done. We’ll have coverage of the Paralympics as well as the Olympics by the SABC and that already is a huge feather in our cap.”
Thank you to all stakeholders who attended the Press Conference today in celebration of the 6 months to go before Tokyo 2020. Read more info on: https://t.co/b0NUV7HkTJ#Tokyo2020 #6MonthsToGo
— TeamSouthAfrica (@TeamSA2020) January 24, 2020
Today, we celebrate six months to go before the World’s biggest multi-coded sporting spectacle, the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. SASCOC will be hosting a press conference to give an update on Team SA’s Olympic Games preps. @Tokyo2020#Tokyo2020 #6MonthsToGo
— TeamSouthAfrica (@TeamSA2020) January 24, 2020
Acting Sascoc President, Barry Hendricks, “Excitement is building up and to our athletes be guaranteed that you will be going to Tokyo and you will make us proud because you have been preparing well for these games. #Tokyo2020 #6MonthsToGo
— TeamSouthAfrica (@TeamSA2020) January 24, 2020
