{"id":44063,"date":"2026-06-26T06:42:29","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:42:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/banned-swimmers-daughters-to-realise-commonwealth-games-dream\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T06:42:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T06:42:32","slug":"banned-swimmers-daughters-to-realise-commonwealth-games-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/banned-swimmers-daughters-to-realise-commonwealth-games-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned swimmer&#8217;s daughters to realise Commonwealth Games dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Annette Cowley Nel&#8217;s dreams of winning a swimming gold at the 1986 Commonwealth Games were dashed by a political storm.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the eve of her race at the competition in Edinburgh, she was banned from competing and escorted from the athletes&#8217; village by police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But now, 40 years later, things will come an emotional full circle when she watches her daughters compete at the Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Twins Georgia and Olivia Nel have both been named in South Africa&#8217;s swimming team for the Games, which get under way in Glasgow next month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is incredibly special that they have both made the Commonwealth Games,&#8221; said Cowley Nel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It will be quite an emotional moment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cj0gzpm57pro?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annette Cowley Nel&#8217;s dreams of winning a swimming gold at the 1986 Commonwealth Games were dashed by a political storm. On the eve of her race at the competition in Edinburgh, she was banned from competing and escorted from the athletes&#8217; village by police. But now, 40 years later, things will come an emotional full [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44064,"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\/44063"}],"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=44063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44065,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44063\/revisions\/44065"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}