{"id":32487,"date":"2021-05-26T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/26\/survivors-and-bereaved-seek-answers-after-21-deaths-in-china-ultramarathon"},"modified":"2021-05-26T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T11:23:00","slug":"survivors-and-bereaved-seek-answers-after-21-deaths-in-china-ultramarathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32487","title":{"rendered":"Survivors and bereaved seek answers after 21 deaths in China ultramarathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of cold-weather gear questioned as more harrowing accounts of survivors emerge<\/p>\n<p>Loved ones and fellow competitors of 21 runners who died in extreme weather during an ultramarathon in north-west China are seeking answers and accountability, as further accounts emerge of survivors\u2019 harrowing experiences.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/24\/china-ultramarathon-inquiry-launched-after-21-runners-die-in-cold-weather\">Twenty-one runners died<\/a> on Saturday when below-freezing temperatures, hail and high winds hit the race track: a 100km stretch of mountainous trail about 3,000 metres above sea level, in the Yellow River Stone Forest tourist site near Baiyin city. A further eight people were injured.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/26\/survivors-and-bereaved-seek-answers-after-21-deaths-in-china-ultramarathon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lack of cold-weather gear questioned as more harrowing accounts of survivors emergeLoved ones and fellow competitors of 21 runners who died in extreme weather during an ultramarathon in north-west China are seeking answers and accountability, as furthe&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"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":[41,50,2195,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-marathon-running","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32487","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\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32488,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32487\/revisions\/32488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}