{"id":5613,"date":"2015-08-05T17:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=5613"},"modified":"2015-08-05T17:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T16:40:56","slug":"special-olympics-bangladesh-win-18-gold-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/special-olympics-bangladesh-win-18-gold-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Olympics: Bangladesh win 18 gold medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Special-Olympics.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5614\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Special-Olympics.jpg\" alt=\"Special Olympics\" width=\"411\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Special-Olympics.jpg 411w, https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Special-Olympics-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 411px) 100vw, 411px\" \/><\/a>Bangladesh clinched 18 gold, 22 silver and 14 bronze medals in the special Olympics which ended last Sunday.<br \/>\nBangladesh took part in six disciplines athletics, badminton, bocce, football, swimming and table tennis\u2013of the 25 held.<br \/>\nThis year a total of 7,000 athletes from 177 countries participated in the competition from July 25 to August 4.<br \/>\nParul Akhtar won the first gold medal in swimming this year on July 26.<br \/>\nBangladesh won 6 gold, 5 silver and 6 bronze in athletics, 6 gold in badminton, 3 in bocce, 1 in swimming and 2 in table tennis.<br \/>\nThe 80-member Bangladesh contingent including 54 athletes and 26 officials will return home Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/special-olympics-bangladesh-win-18-gold-medals\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangladesh clinched 18 gold, 22 silver and 14 bronze medals in the special Olympics which ended last Sunday. Bangladesh took part in six disciplines athletics, badminton, bocce, football, swimming and table tennis\u2013of the 25 held. This year a total of 7,000 athletes from 177 countries participated in the competition from July 25 to August 4. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,7],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5615,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions\/5615"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}