Par Marcel Tshishiku<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Le champion olympique des poids super-lourds aux Jeux olympiques d’\u00e9t\u00e9 de 2016, Tony Yoka a d\u00e9menti avoir d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de changer de nationalit\u00e9 sportive pour repr\u00e9senter la R\u00e9publique D\u00e9mocratique du Congo lors des Jeux olympiques d’\u00e9t\u00e9 de 2028. L’homme a expliqu\u00e9 vouloir garder la nationalit\u00e9 sportive fran\u00e7aise. Sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux, Tony Yoka a dit avoir pris plusieurs contacts et rencontres avec des officiels congolais, lors de son r\u00e9cent en R\u00e9publique D\u00e9mocratique du Congo, pays d’origine de son p\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Il a notamment rencontr\u00e9 le ministre des sports, Didier Budimbu Ntubuanga et le pr\u00e9sident de la r\u00e9publique, F\u00e9lix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo. Didier Budimbu, a pr\u00e9cis\u00e9 que ce partenariat vise plusieurs objectifs, notamment: cr\u00e9er une acad\u00e9mie de boxe pour former de jeunes talents et promouvoir l’image de la RDC \u00e0 travers le sport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Tony Victor James Yoka est n\u00e9 le 28 avril 1992 \u00e0 Paris, en \u00cele-de-France. Il na\u00eet d’une m\u00e8re fran\u00e7aise et d’un p\u00e8re congolais, Victor Yoka, \u00e9galement boxeur, dont la carri\u00e8re fut arr\u00eat\u00e9e pour raisons m\u00e9dicales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Un combat tr\u00e8s attendu pourrait opposer Tony Yoka \u00e0 son compatriote Martin Bakole Ilunga, \u00e0 Kinshasa. Ce duel prendrait des allures de revanche, quatre ans apr\u00e8s la premi\u00e8re d\u00e9faite professionnelle du champion olympique face au poids lourd congolais.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Par Marcel Tshishiku Le champion olympique des poids super-lourds aux Jeux olympiques d’\u00e9t\u00e9 de 2016, Tony Yoka a d\u00e9menti avoir d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de changer de nationalit\u00e9 sportive pour repr\u00e9senter la R\u00e9publique D\u00e9mocratique du Congo lors des Jeux olympiques d’\u00e9t\u00e9 de 2028. L’homme a expliqu\u00e9 vouloir garder la nationalit\u00e9 sportive fran\u00e7aise. Sur les r\u00e9seaux sociaux, Tony Yoka […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[940,134,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-boxe","category-la-tempete-des-tropiques","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76068"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76070,"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76068\/revisions\/76070"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.latempete.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}