Dakar 2026: opening day of the first Olympic event in Africa

Selon le CIO, la cérémonie d’ouverture de Dakar 2026 est prévue le 31 octobre.

Selon means “according to”. Put a person or organisation after it as the source. It separates facts the writer checked directly from what another body or report said. Citing a source does not turn a forecast into an accomplished fact.

Selon le CIO, la cérémonie d’ouverture de Dakar 2026 est prévue le 31 octobre.

Prévoir means “to plan, to expect”. Être prévu means “to be scheduled” and être envisagé means “to be under consideration”. In the news, read them separately from expressions that describe events that have already happened. They do not say that the event has already taken place.

Voici les repères pour comprendre cette édition.

This is the purpose, “in order to…”. Put the base form of a verb after pour. The purpose stated here is separate from whether the effect was actually achieved.

Dakar est la capitale du Sénégal et donne son nom à l’édition.

Est is third-person singular and sont third-person plural of être. They express “is / are” — a state or description. If a past participle follows, it is a different structure such as the passive, so check the words that follow.

Sénégal désigne le pays hôte ; jeunesse renvoie ici aux jeunes ; cérémonie d’ouverture désigne l’événement officiel qui ouvre les Jeux.

Qui continues a description of the person or thing just mentioned (“the one that does…”). Because qui is itself the subject of the next verb, do not repeat the subject. The verb agrees with the noun qui refers to.

Les Jeux Olympiques de la Jeunesse se déroulent au Sénégal du 31 octobre au 13 novembre.

Le 15 octobre means “on 15 October”. Distinguish the le before a date from the le that marks a weekly habit like a weekday. Du is de + le and au is à + le, so decide the meaning from the verb and period expressions around them. Their role depends on the group: a range of dates, the date of a bulletin or another complement.

国際オリンピック委員会によると、ダカール2026の開会式は10月31日に予定されています。

As in “LCPによると”, it shows where the information comes from. What that source reported follows. It is used differently from “私にとって”, which gives one’s own opinion.

ニュースでは開催の予定、競技の結果、選手の感想を区別すると、何が確認された情報かが分かりやすくなります。

予定 is a plan, 見込み a forecast and 方針 a course of action or intention. None of them asserts that something has already been carried out. Note the difference from expressions such as “決まりました”.

この記事は開会前の案内で、式が終わったという報告ではありません。

They negate a noun and similar content. “ではありません” is the polite form and “ではない” the plain form. “成立ではありません” shows that it cannot be said to have been concluded.

IOCは、アフリカ大陸で初めて開催される五輪イベントと位置付けています。

The て-form links actions in a series, in order or as a reason. In “確認して、出発する” the relation is judged from the content. In “〜ている” it can show an action in progress or a continuing state.

若い選手の大会と、通常の夏季五輪の違いを紹介します。

A explains noun B that follows. It is not only possession: the relation can be belonging, target, content and more. In “政府の案” and “年金の税控除”, read the relation from the context.

大会は11月13日までです。

は shows what the sentence is about; an explanation of that topic follows. は and が are not always interchangeable: contrast and the way information is placed change.