{"id":22034,"date":"2024-09-04T14:26:22","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:26:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-first-african-to-bring-home-a-badminton-medal\/"},"modified":"2024-09-04T14:26:23","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T14:26:23","slug":"the-first-african-to-bring-home-a-badminton-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/the-first-african-to-bring-home-a-badminton-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"The first African to bring home a badminton medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Eighteen-year-old Mariam Eniola Bolaji is the first African to win a medal in badminton at the Paralympics &#8211; a feat yet to be achieved at the Olympics by an African competitor. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">The Nigerian won bronze in the women\u2019s SL3 Para-badminton and amazed many fans who believe her future is bright.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">Bolaji has reduced mobility in her left leg after it was damaged in a car crash when she was a child.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\">She told BBC Africa she was dedicating her medal to her late coach, Bello Rafiu Oyebanji, who died in a car accident in 2021. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"reporter:-rob-stevens\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Reporter: Rob Stevens <!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"filmed-by:-thuthuka-zondi\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Filmed by: Thuthuka Zondi <!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fYAfXe\"><i id=\"edited-by:-gem-o&#x2019;reilly\" class=\"sc-7dcfb11b-0 kKcaog\">Edited by: Gem O\u2019Reilly<!-- --><\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cvgd7p9q1x7o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eighteen-year-old Mariam Eniola Bolaji is the first African to win a medal in badminton at the Paralympics &#8211; a feat yet to be achieved at the Olympics by an African competitor. The Nigerian won bronze in the women\u2019s SL3 Para-badminton and amazed many fans who believe her future is bright. Bolaji has reduced mobility in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22034"}],"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=22034"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22036,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22034\/revisions\/22036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}