{"id":51868,"date":"2014-12-19T18:30:52","date_gmt":"2014-12-19T17:30:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2014\/12\/19\/pope-francis-on-rome-s-candidacy-for-the-2024-olympics-i-won-t-be-here-eh\/"},"modified":"2014-12-19T18:30:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-19T17:30:52","slug":"pope-francis-on-rome-s-candidacy-for-the-2024-olympics-i-won-t-be-here-eh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2014\/12\/19\/pope-francis-on-rome-s-candidacy-for-the-2024-olympics-i-won-t-be-here-eh\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Francis on Rome's candidacy for the 2024 Olympics: I won't be here, eh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Italian government announced that Rome is in the run to host the 2024 Olympic Games. Pope Francis met with a delegation of Italian athletes and wished them good luck.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'2024...I won't be here, huh?\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Italy's National Olympic Committee was celebrating at the Vatican its first century of history.<\/p>\n<p>GIOVANNI MALAG\u00ed?<br \/>\nPresident, Italian National Olympic Committee<br \/>\n'Here you can see some Olympic and Paralympic champions who have won thanks to their hard work and spirit of sacrifice.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>In his address, the Pope explained that sport promotes education and fraternity. He highlighted that sometimes sport is not about winning, but rather about learning to loose.<\/p>\n<p>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n'It gives us a challenge to which we are called, and not just athletes: accepting the hardship and \u00a0sacrifice needed to achieve important goals in life, as well as accepting one's limitations without being paralyzed by them, and eventually overcome them.\u00e2?\u009d<\/p>\n<p>After his address, the Pope greeted some Paralympic athletes in a very warm way. Before leaving, Pope Francis encouraged all schools to promote sports, as he asked that it may be accessible for all, even for the weakest.<\/p>\n<p>JRB<br \/>\nCTV<br \/>\nSV<br \/>\n-BN<br \/>\nUp:AC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 19, 2014. ;He met with a delegation of Italy's National Olympic Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":31990,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"http:\/\/youtu.be\/jqFnYs8g53s","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/","international_url":"http:\/\/romereports.com.edgesuite.net\/news\/bpapacoiint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}