What’s better than one Olympic dream? Two Olympic dreams. Egypt is walking into the 2024 Paris Olympic Games with its biggest ever delegation of athletes in hopes of outdoing its performance in the 2021 games — its best in over seven decades — Reuters writes. Another strong performance would “continue to build [Egypt’s] credentials for a possible tilt at hosting the Summer Games in 2036,” the newswire writes.

Where do things stand? Egypt is ready to organize the games, Egyptian Olympic Committee Treasurer Mohamed Abdel Aziz said, adding it has reached “60% of the organizing efforts, including facilities, roads … the rest are related to budget and financial issues.”

This wouldn’t be Egypt’s first crack at hosting the competition: 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. A successful bid would make Egypt the first country in Africa to host the games.

** 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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