NEW YORK (AP) - The head of the South African organizers for next year's football 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 Press on Wednesday.
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