{"id":19973,"date":"2024-07-18T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/blind-twins-bid-to-inspire-others-at-paris-paralympics\/"},"modified":"2024-07-18T08:31:01","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T08:31:01","slug":"blind-twins-bid-to-inspire-others-at-paris-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/blind-twins-bid-to-inspire-others-at-paris-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind twins bid to inspire others at Paris Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Scarlett added: &#8220;I am not limited; I have lane ropes to keep me in the lane and control over what I am doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have tappers who tap us on the head or shoulders to let us know when we have to turn at the end of a length.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The twins first started swimming as young children at their local swimming club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are very close,&#8221; says Eliza.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We made our competitive debuts together. We are now going to the Paralympics together. We use each other as motivation and are very competitive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know how hard each other is working and we race against each other. The rivalry is always there but we are friends too and have a lot in common.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/swimming\/articles\/cy684x5gdx4o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scarlett added: &#8220;I am not limited; I have lane ropes to keep me in the lane and control over what I am doing. &#8220;We have tappers who tap us on the head or shoulders to let us know when we have to turn at the end of a length.&#8221; The twins first started swimming as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19975,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19973\/revisions\/19975"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}