This Saturday, Venezuela begins its participation in the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games

Published at: 30/10/2026 10:03 PM

This Saturday, the national delegation of 34 athletes present at the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games will begin its performance.

The challenge will be to compete in the 15 disciplines in which they will start trying to add new medals to the total harvest of 15 medals obtained in the three previous editions of Singapore 2010, Nankin 2014 and Buenos Aires 2018, according to a specialized press review.

For the first time in the centuries-old history of modern Olympism, the African continent hosts a multidisciplinary sporting event organized by the International Olympic Committee in the sub-Saharan capital of Senegal, where 2,700 young people from 205 nations will seek recognition in 25 competitive sports and another 10 exhibition sports from this Saturday to November 13.

Venezuela will open fire starting this Saturday with the mixed doubles of table tennis consisting of Dakota Ferrer and Jonathan Vegas, while in beach volleyball Santiago Camejo and Moisés Yépez face the Guatemalan duo in the preliminary phase.

Mazo News Team