{"id":179523,"date":"2024-08-29T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-35-man-contingent-hoping-to-improve-team-nigerias-paralympic-games-history-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T20:43:09","slug":"nigeria-35-man-contingent-hoping-to-improve-team-nigerias-paralympic-games-history-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-35-man-contingent-hoping-to-improve-team-nigerias-paralympic-games-history-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: 35-Man Contingent Hoping to Improve Team Nigeria&#8217;s Paralympic Games History in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">As the 2024 Paralympic Games officially begins in Paris today, Team Nigeria is represented by a strong contingent of 35 athletes who are hoping to improve on the country&#8217;s glorious past outing at the Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Last night, the Paralympic Games began with a spectacular Opening Ceremony, described by International Paralympic Committee President, Andrew Parsons, as a &#8220;traditional ceremony in a non-traditional venue&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The Opening Ceremony marks the beginning of 11 days of competition (549 medal events&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408290540.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>As the 2024 Paralympic Games officially begins in Paris today, Team Nigeria is represented by a strong contingent of 35 athletes who are hoping to improve on the country&#8217;s glorious past outing at the Games. Last night, the Paralympic Games began with a spectacular Opening Ceremony, described by International Paralympic Committee President, Andrew Parsons, as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":179524,"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":[49397,258,256,16521,6731,7099,17834,6449,257,4687,393,5761,27226,15620,254,7142],"class_list":["post-179523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-35man","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-contingent","tag-games","tag-history","tag-hoping","tag-improve","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerias","tag-paralympic","tag-paris","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\/179523","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=179523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}