{"id":66144,"date":"2024-08-09T23:53:56","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/pakistan-celebrates-arshad-nadeems-history-making-olympic-gold-medal"},"modified":"2024-08-09T23:53:56","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T14:53:56","slug":"pakistan-celebrates-arshad-nadeems-history-making-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=66144","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan celebrates Arshad Nadeem\u2019s history-making Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Javelin thrower who won Pakistan\u2019s first ever medal in track and field has done \u2018the impossible\u2019, says brother<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ng-interactive\/2024\/aug\/08\/paris-olympics-2024-medal-table-latest\">The latest medal table<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ng-interactive\/2024\/aug\/08\/paris-olympics-2024-schedule-times-dates-events-updated-live\">Live schedule<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/ng-interactive\/2024\/jul\/31\/paris-olympics-2024-results\">And full results<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Arshad Nadeem\u2019s Olympic gold was celebrated with dancing and sweets in his small village in Pakistan after he broke the Olympic javelin record and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/article\/2024\/aug\/08\/arshad-nadeem-neeraj-chopra-pakistan-india-javelin-throw-athletics-2024-paris-olympic-games\">won his country\u2019s first ever medal in track and field<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArshad has done something that the world calls impossible. He not only earned the gold medal but made history. <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ShirazHassan\/status\/1821825169897255266\">We are proud of him,\u201d<\/a> his brother, Mohammad Azeem, told local media.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/aug\/09\/pakistan-celebrates-arshad-nadeems-history-making-olympic-gold-medal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Javelin thrower who won Pakistan\u2019s first ever medal in track and field has done \u2018the impossible\u2019, says brotherThe latest medal table | Live schedule | And full resultsArshad Nadeem\u2019s Olympic gold was celebrated with dancing and sweets in his small vill&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"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":[2198,342,60,3138,203,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-olympic-games","category-pakistan","category-paris-olympic-games-2024","category-sport","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\/66144","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\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66145,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66144\/revisions\/66145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}