{"id":177782,"date":"2024-08-02T20:59:40","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-aim-higher-zim-athletes-urged\/"},"modified":"2024-08-02T20:59:40","modified_gmt":"2024-08-02T18:59:40","slug":"zimbabwe-aim-higher-zim-athletes-urged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-aim-higher-zim-athletes-urged\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Aim Higher, Zim Athletes Urged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">PERMANENT secretary in the Ministry of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Nicholas Moyo has urged athletes participating in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to aim at improving their performances during the global sports show-piece.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Zimbabwe are fielding seven athletes in athletics, swimming, and rowing at the Games that are running until August 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">And Moyo wants them to make the most of their opportunity to rub shoulders with the world&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">&#8220;It&#8217;s a platform where each athlete should take honour&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408020389.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PERMANENT secretary in the Ministry of Sport, Recreation, Arts and Culture Nicholas Moyo has urged athletes participating in the Paris 2024 Olympic Games to aim at improving their performances during the global sports show-piece. Zimbabwe are fielding seven athletes in athletics, swimming, and rowing at the Games that are running until August 11. And Moyo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,12953,7884,8056,257,254,6206,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-177782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-aim","tag-athletes","tag-higher","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urged","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}