{"id":178392,"date":"2024-08-12T20:14:14","date_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-bullish-team-kenya-embark-on-preps-in-france-ahead-of-paris-paralympics\/"},"modified":"2024-08-12T20:14:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T18:14:14","slug":"kenya-bullish-team-kenya-embark-on-preps-in-france-ahead-of-paris-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-bullish-team-kenya-embark-on-preps-in-france-ahead-of-paris-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Bullish Team Kenya Embark On Preps in France Ahead of Paris Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The national team to the Paralympic Games in Paris have began their preparations in the French city of Compiegne ahead of the opening ceremony on August 28.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The team of 14 athletes arrived in the city, located 79.3km away from Paris, on Friday last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\">Team captain Samuel Muchai says the pre-Paralympics camp has lifted their spirits ahead of the battle ahead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">&#8220;We have trained well enough in Kenya and improved on our endurance, particularly for those in athletics. Coming into&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408120623.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The national team to the Paralympic Games in Paris have began their preparations in the French city of Compiegne ahead of the opening ceremony on August 28. The team of 14 athletes arrived in the city, located 79.3km away from Paris, on Friday last week. Team captain Samuel Muchai says the pre-Paralympics camp [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":178393,"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":[250],"tags":[258,256,7019,10044,19131,4960,4688,430,257,33452,15620,11793,254,7142],"class_list":["post-178392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ahead","tag-bullish","tag-embark","tag-france","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-paralympics","tag-paris","tag-preps","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team"],"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\/178392","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}