{"id":30307,"date":"2021-03-29T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/freedom-on-slopes-the-women-skiers-of-afghanistan-photo-essay"},"modified":"2021-03-29T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-03-29T06:00:03","slug":"freedom-on-the-slopes-skiing-for-women-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=30307","title":{"rendered":"Freedom on the slopes &#8211; skiing for women in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Skiing is a beacon of hope for the brave young women who have taken up the sport at Bamyan Ski Club amid political turmoil in the country<\/p>\n<p>It is 6.30am and Nazira Khairzad, 18, and her older sister Nazima, 19, are sat with their family trying to eat the spread of breakfast laid out in front of them, despite their nerves. It is the start of the two-day Afghan Ski Challenge in the central highland province of Bamyan, and the women\u2019s race is kicking off in just a few hours\u2019 time. Not only are the pair the ones to watch but, as soon as they are on the slopes, they are one another\u2019s direct competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m nervous but I think I have a good chance of placing first this year,\u201d says Nazira. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019m aiming for.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/mar\/29\/freedom-on-slopes-the-women-skiers-of-afghanistan-photo-essay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Skiing is a beacon of hope for the brave young women who have taken up the sport at Bamyan Ski Club amid political turmoil in the countryIt is 6.30am and Nazira Khairzad, 18, and her older sister Nazima, 19, are sat with their family trying to eat the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2046,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,646,2025,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-gender","category-skiing","category-sport"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2046"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30308,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30307\/revisions\/30308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}