The Olympic flame for the Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games arrived in Dakar on Saturday. [1] Olympics.com filed President Bassirou Diomaye Faye welcoming the torch, with IOC President Kirsty Coventry present. [1] A procession of Linguères carried it along the Corniche to Place du Souvenir Africain. [2]

An arrival is not an opening ceremony. The Games are still dated October 31 to November 13 in the IOC file. [1] A nationwide tour scheduled later is not Saturday's news as a tour already begun. Print the arrival. Do not print a cauldron at the stadium.

This is the first Olympic flame on African soil for Games hosted on the continent, in the IOC's phrasing. [1] A first is a first. It is not a medal table. Print Dakar. Leave October to October.

-- CHARLES ASHFORD, London