SWIMMER WILL CARRY JORDAN FLAG AT YOUTH OLYMPICS OPENING

The Jordan Olympic Committee has selected swimmer Michael Al-Wer to carry the Kingdom’s flag during the opening ceremony of the 4th Youth Olympic Games.
The event gets underway this Saturday at Abdoulaye Wade Stadium in the Senegalese city of Diamniadio.
This will be an historic moment for Africa with an Olympic event coming to its shores for the first time, and Jordan has a delegation of 13 athletes competing in Taekwondo, Boxing, Swimming, Beach Wrestling, Athletics, Fencing, Triathlon and Judo.
It will be Jordan’s largest delegation in the history of the Youth Olympic Games in terms of sports, while the number of athletes equals the record tally set at the Buenos Aires 2018 edition.
Jordan has participated in all three editions of the Games, held in Singapore 2010, Nanjing, China 2014 and Buenos Aires, Argentina 2018, winning three medals, comprising of one silver and two bronze, all in the sport of Taekwondo.
Dana Haidar won the Kingdom’s solitary silver in Singapore, while Yazan Al-Sadeq won bronze medal at the same edition. Zaid Mustafa won bronze medal in Buenos Aires.
The 4th Youth Olympic Games is expected to welcome 2,655 athletes aged between 14-17 who are representing 204 National Olympic Committees, alongside the Olympic Refugee Team.
It will consist of 25 sports comprising 153 medal events and will run from October 31-November 13 in the three zones of Dakar, Diamniadiom and Saly.
Most significantly, this will be the first edition to have achieved gender equality in athlete quotas and competitions.