{"id":2670,"date":"2005-07-11T19:29:23","date_gmt":"2005-07-11T18:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2005\/07\/11\/london-banked-on-south-africans-to-win-the-olympic-bid\/"},"modified":"2016-10-11T04:43:46","modified_gmt":"2016-10-11T04:43:46","slug":"london-banked-on-south-africans-to-win-the-olympic-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2005\/07\/london-banked-on-south-africans-to-win-the-olympic-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"London banked on South Africans to win the olympic bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.news24.com\/News24\/Sport\/More_Sport\/0,,2-9-32_1735630,00.html\" rel=\"external\">NEWS24:<\/a> The French are up in arms and there are many red faces in the British capital after it has come to light that Britain&#8217;s final presentation in their bid for the Olympic Games starred only South Africans. The children that were used in the video to portray London as a multi-cultural city are all from Pretoria and Johannesburg. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A French daily, Le Parisien, said London broke the rules and a French Olympic swimmer, Francis Luyce, said it was an &#8220;insult&#8221; to France. Paris was the favourite to host the 2012 Games. &#8220;The London video represents a vision. When you are portraying fiction, it is impractical to jump across continents,&#8221; Rowland told The Mail on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>To watch the promotional video from the final presentation which helped London clinch the right to host the 2012 Olympics<\/strong>, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/sport1\/hi\/front_page\/4655555.stm\" rel=\"external\">this&nbsp;article<\/a> on the BBC website, click on &#8220;London&#8217;s presentation&#8221; on the right hand side and from the popup window select &#8220;Replay: London&#8217;s inspirational promo film&#8221; under related audio and video.<\/p>\n<p><em>Thanks Eon<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS24: The French are up in arms and there are many red faces in the British capital after it has come to light that Britain&#8217;s final presentation in their bid for the Olympic Games starred only South Africans. The children that were used in the video to portray London as a multi-cultural city are all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,274],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-south-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2670\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}