{"id":6836,"date":"2023-03-11T08:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-11T08:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/special-olympics-taylor-mackenzie-on-how-swimming-helped-her-speak\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T08:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-03-11T08:28:19","slug":"special-olympics-taylor-mackenzie-on-how-swimming-helped-her-speak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/special-olympics-taylor-mackenzie-on-how-swimming-helped-her-speak\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Olympics: Taylor MacKenzie on how swimming helped her speak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">With 100 days to go until the Special Olympics, BBC Sport meets 15-year-old GB swimmer Taylor MacKenzie who has autism and learning disabilities. She speaks about how swimming helped her find her speech at the age of five and how she is preparing for the Games in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The Great Britain team is expected to feature more than 80 athletes competing in 16 sports with the event taking place from 17-25 June.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/disability-sport\/64878823\" class=\"ssrcss-7a67hd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">&#8216;We&#8217;d never heard Taylor speak until going swimming&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/av\/disability-sport\/64869320?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 100 days to go until the Special Olympics, BBC Sport meets 15-year-old GB swimmer Taylor MacKenzie who has autism and learning disabilities. She speaks about how swimming helped her find her speech at the age of five and how she is preparing for the Games in Berlin. The Great Britain team is expected to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6837,"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\/6836"}],"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=6836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6838,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6836\/revisions\/6838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}