{"id":24534,"date":"2023-03-24T18:25:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow"},"modified":"2023-03-24T18:40:44","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T18:40:44","slug":"grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow","title":{"rendered":"GRAND PRIX DRY RUN TOMORROW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>An acid test awaits the local organising committee as it stages the road to FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix continental tour on Saturday.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Botswana will host the grand prix on April 29, so the Saturday meet will be used as a dry-run to gauge readiness for the main event. The event spokesperson, Calistus Kolantsho, said in an interview that tomorrow\u2019s meet would attract athletes from Botswana, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will be using the event to check our readiness. It is a yard stick for the main event, we will be looking at all areas,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kolantsho said he was cognisant of the fact that a lot of people were only waiting for the main event, adding that the dry-run would enable them to judge if the spectators were comfortable with buying tickets at the venue or at the provided outlets.<\/p>\n<p>He said they would also assess security, to guide them as to how much security they would need on April 29, and on which areas they should concentrate on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are dealing with international athletes, security is always a priority and we are not going to compromise in that area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, he said the meet officials would also be under microscope, adding that World Athletics was expected to send an official from Mauritius to assist during the main event.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kolantsho, the track and field competition would also help them to project if local athletes would be in a position to drop good times during the main event.<\/p>\n<p>He said tomorrow\u2019s event would also serve as a qualifier to compete at the FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix, adding that the intention was to give local athletes chance to compete in front of the world.<\/p>\n<p>He thanked the Zambian team for being supportive since the meet inception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be honest, the Zambians always give our athletes competition, therefore we are very confident that they would be in a good position to gauge themselves whether they are ready for April 29 or not,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s events on Saturday are 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500 metres as well as 400 metres hurdles, long and high jump, shot put and 4 x100 metres.<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s events are 100 metres, 200 metres, 400 metres, 800 metres, long jump, shot put and 4 x100 metres.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. An acid test awaits the local organising committee as it stages the road to FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix continental tour on Saturday. Botswana will host the grand prix on April 29, so the Saturday meet will be used as a dry-run to gauge readiness for the main event. The event spokesperson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":24533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-24534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>GRAND PRIX DRY RUN TOMORROW - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An acid test awaits the local organising committee as it stages the road to FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix continenta ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"GRAND PRIX DRY RUN TOMORROW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"An acid test awaits the local organising committee as it stages the road to FNB Botswana Golden Grand Prix continenta ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Botswana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-03-24T18:25:42+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-03-24T18:40:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679666732.91.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"850\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"401\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"GRAND PRIX DRY RUN TOMORROW\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-03-24T18:25:42+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-03-24T18:40:44+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow\"},\"wordCount\":396,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/botswana\/sites\/38\/2023\/03\/postQueueImg_1679666732.91.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Botswana\",\"Botswana\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/grand-prix-dry-run-tomorrow\",\"name\":\"GRAND PRIX DRY RUN TOMORROW - 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