{"id":42319,"date":"2024-08-07T14:19:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=42319"},"modified":"2024-08-07T14:19:05","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T14:19:05","slug":"paris-2024-olympics-ogunsanya-falters-ibadin-fumbles-in-mens-800m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/08\/07\/paris-2024-olympics-ogunsanya-falters-ibadin-fumbles-in-mens-800m\/","title":{"rendered":"Paris 2024 Olympics: Ogunsanya Falters, Ibadin Fumbles In Men\u2019s 800m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Christianah Ogunsanya lost in the wrestling event at the ongoing 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunsanya lost her second round bout in the women\u2019s freestyle 53kg to Mongolia\u2019s Khulan Batkhuyag.<br \/>\nShe was trailing 3-1 in the second half, before losing via VFA.<\/p>\n<p>Ogunsanya dropped to the Repechage where she has an opportunity to win bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Another Nigerian athlete, Edose Ibadin finished 6th in heat 2 of men\u2019s 800m.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-42323\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/download-2024-08-07T142021.247.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"186\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Tual of France won the race in a time of 1:45.13.<\/p>\n<p>Ireland\u2019s Mark English was second with a time of 1:45.13, ahead of Botswana\u2019s Tshepiso Masalela who was third in a time of 1:45.58.<\/p>\n<p>Ibadin will compete in the Repechage round to fight for another chance into the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Christianah Ogunsanya lost in the wrestling event at the ongoing 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Wednesday. Ogunsanya lost her second round bout in the women\u2019s freestyle 53kg to Mongolia\u2019s Khulan Batkhuyag. She was trailing 3-1 in the second half, before losing via VFA. Ogunsanya dropped to the Repechage where she has an opportunity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":42321,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[1136],"class_list":["post-42319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-paris-olympics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42319"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42336,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42319\/revisions\/42336"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}