The BBC explores Egypt’s 2036 Olympics bid: “Egypt is ready now,” the National Olympic Committee (NOC) Secretary General Sharif El Erian told the BBC. A successful bid would make Egypt the first country in Africa to host the games, yet the “sheer scale and cost” of hosting the games and convincing the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) board presents a challenge to bidding nations, writes the beeb.

This isn’t Egypt’s first rodeo: Following three failed Olympic bids, Egypt has spent the past seven or eight years developing the main support infrastructure to make it better qualified to host the games, which includes the new capital’s 92-acre Olympic City, El Erian said.

We’re some of the most qualified in the continent: “If you want me to pick three countries who are the best when it comes to facilities in Africa, I can pick easily: Egypt, South Africa and Morocco. The rest have no chance,” El Erian told the BBC.

** Dive deeper: We took a look at how the Madbouly government is looking to the private sector to develop our sports infrastructure ahead of our planned Olympics bid in a Hardhat last year.

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