{"id":177998,"date":"2024-08-06T09:46:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:46:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-paris-2024-nigerias-oborodudu-loses-semi-final-bout\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T09:46:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T07:46:36","slug":"nigeria-paris-2024-nigerias-oborodudu-loses-semi-final-bout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-paris-2024-nigerias-oborodudu-loses-semi-final-bout\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Paris 2024 &#8211; Nigeria&#8217;s Oborodudu Loses Semi-Final Bout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\"><em>The 2020 Olympic Games silver medallist lost out to Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s Meerim Zhumanazarova in the semi-final.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">It was a painful loss for Team Nigeria&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/oborududublessing\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Blessing Oborodudu<\/a><\/strong> on Monday evening as she lost her semifinal encounter to Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s Meerim Zhumanazarova, who won 3-1 in the women&#8217;s 68kg event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The 2020 Olympic Games silver medallist clashed heads with Zhumanazarova in the first half and this slowed her down in the second half of the match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">She will return for the bronze medal bout on Tuesday&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408060053.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2020 Olympic Games silver medallist lost out to Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s Meerim Zhumanazarova in the semi-final. It was a painful loss for Team Nigeria&#8217;s Blessing Oborodudu on Monday evening as she lost her semifinal encounter to Kyrgyzstan&#8217;s Meerim Zhumanazarova, who won 3-1 in the women&#8217;s 68kg event. The 2020 Olympic Games silver medallist clashed heads with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":177999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,11043,10569,257,4687,393,5761,49234,15620,14272,254],"class_list":["post-177998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bout","tag-loses","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-oborodudu","tag-paris","tag-semifinal","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177998","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177998\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}