{"id":46645,"date":"2024-09-02T11:31:50","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T11:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=46645"},"modified":"2024-09-02T11:31:50","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T11:31:50","slug":"2024-paralympics-eniola-bolaji-wins-bronze-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/09\/02\/2024-paralympics-eniola-bolaji-wins-bronze-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 Paralympics: Eniola Bolaji Wins Bronze Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eniola Bolaji became the first African athlete to win a medal in Para-Badminton, earning a bronze medal for Nigeria in the Women&#8217;s Singles SL3 division.<\/p>\n<p>Bolaji won Nigeria&#8217;s first Paralympic medal in Paris on Monday morning, defeating her Ukrainian opponent Oksana Kozyna in straight sets, 2-0 (21-9, 21-9).<\/p>\n<p>Despite having her sights set on gold, Bolaji lost to China&#8217;s Zuxian Xiao 2-0 (16-21, 17-21) in the semi-finals on Sunday. However, she redeemed herself by winning bronze on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Many would be relieved to see Nigeria break its medal drought after disappointing performances at the Olympic Games and the just concluded World U-20 Athletics Championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eniola Bolaji became the first African athlete to win a medal in Para-Badminton, earning a bronze medal for Nigeria in the Women&#8217;s Singles SL3 division. Bolaji won Nigeria&#8217;s first Paralympic medal in Paris on Monday morning, defeating her Ukrainian opponent Oksana Kozyna in straight sets, 2-0 (21-9, 21-9). Despite having her sights set on gold, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":46646,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46645","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46645"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46650,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46645\/revisions\/46650"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}