{"id":102199,"date":"2026-09-15T17:44:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/london-misses-out-as-major-sports-event-to-be-held-in-africa-for-first-time\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T17:44:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T17:44:00","slug":"london-misses-out-as-major-sports-event-to-be-held-in-africa-for-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/london-misses-out-as-major-sports-event-to-be-held-in-africa-for-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"London misses out as major sports event to be held in Africa for first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>London has lost out to Nairobi in its bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Africa for the first time.<br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/london-misses-out-as-2029-world-athletics-championships-awarded-to-nairobi-13586119\">World News &#8211; Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London has lost out to Nairobi in its bid to host the 2029 World Athletics Championships, which will be held in Africa for the first time. World News &#8211; Breaking international news and headlines | Sky News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1810,2766,36,257,1829,4352,6718,4860,312],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fallsurfing.net\/firstnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}