{"id":65316,"date":"2024-07-02T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jul\/02\/in-a-class-of-their-own-three-olympic-sportswomen-talk-about-overcoming-war-hardship-and-the-taliban"},"modified":"2024-07-02T15:00:35","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T06:00:35","slug":"in-a-class-of-their-own-three-olympic-sportswomen-talk-about-overcoming-war-hardship-and-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=65316","title":{"rendered":"In a class of their own: three Olympic sportswomen talk about overcoming war, hardship and the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries\u2019 only female qualifiers in their chosen fields<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>One of Alexandra Ndolo\u2019s greatest career achievements so far is winning a silver medal for Germany at the world fencing championships in Cairo in 2022. But when the daughter of a Polish mother and Kenyan father looked up and saw the Kenyan flag hanging from the roof of the arena for the one athlete who hadn\u2019t won anything, she had a moment of reckoning.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/article\/2024\/jul\/02\/in-a-class-of-their-own-three-olympic-sportswomen-talk-about-overcoming-war-hardship-and-the-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In advance of the Paris Olympics and Paralympics, we speak to women who have faced conflict, discrimination and a lack of funding to stand as their countries\u2019 only female qualifiers in their chosen fieldsOne of Alexandra Ndolo\u2019s greatest career achieve&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4323,"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":[46,401,1078,59,1086,869,212,342,61,203,281,617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-africa","category-dance","category-global-development","category-kenya","category-lebanon","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-olympic-games","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65316","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\/4323"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=65316"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65317,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65316\/revisions\/65317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=65316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=65316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=65316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}