Durban in the running for Paralympic congress: Sascoc president

The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has submitted a bid to host the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) congress in Durban in December‚ president Barry Hendricks said on Tuesday.

The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee president Barry Hendricks says his organisation will take the proposed Cricket South Africa MOI amendments through its various structures for consideration.
The South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee president Barry Hendricks says his organisation will take the proposed Cricket South Africa MOI amendments through its various structures for consideration. (Wessel Oosthuizen/Gallo Images)

The SA Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc) has submitted a bid to host the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) congress in Durban in December‚ president Barry Hendricks said on Tuesday.

The deadline for submissions was midnight Monday‚ and it’s understood a few other cities are in the running too‚ including Kigali‚ Rwanda.

“We are working with the city of eThekwini and the province of KwaZulu-Natal‚” he said.

Sascoc was in the process of adding the word Paralympic to its name‚ examining ways of incorporating it without making the acronym too cumbersome‚ added Hendricks.