{"id":28365,"date":"2016-09-06T02:44:57","date_gmt":"2016-09-06T02:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ivory-coast-olympic-medallists-cisse-and-gbagbi\/"},"modified":"2016-09-06T02:44:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-06T02:44:55","slug":"ivory-coast-olympic-medallists-cisse-and-gbagbi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ivory-coast-olympic-medallists-cisse-and-gbagbi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ivory Coast Olympic medallists Cisse and Gbagbi given houses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Ivory Coast&#8217;s two medallists from the Rio Olympic games have been given cash awards and houses by the president.}<\/p>\n<p>Cheick Cisse, who won taekwondo gold, was given $85,000 (\u00a364,000) and Ruth Gbagbi, who won bronze in the women&#8217;s event, got $51,000.<\/p>\n<p>Cisse&#8217;s gold medal was the first in the country&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, President Alassane Ouattara made similar awards to members of the national football team after they won the African Cup of Nations.<\/p>\n<p>He did not reveal any details about the houses given to Cisse and Gbagbi, or their location.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ouattara and his wife Dominique wore the medals as they posed with the athletes for photos at the presidential palace in the country&#8217;s commercial capital, Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast had only won one Olympic medal until this year.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Tiacoh won a silver medal in the men&#8217;s 400m in the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>He died in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Ivory Coast used to be one of Africa&#8217;s richest countries but its economy has been devastated by years of conflict.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14803 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_91034514_ivory12.jpg\" alt=\"Ivorian President Alassane Ouattara (R) and his wife Dominique Ouattara pose with the Olympians.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Ivory Coast&#8217;s two medallists from the Rio Olympic games have been given cash awards and houses by the president.} Cheick Cisse, who won taekwondo gold, was given $85,000 (\u00a364,000) and Ruth Gbagbi, who won bronze in the women&#8217;s event, got $51,000. Cisse&#8217;s gold medal was the first in the country&#8217;s history. Last year, President Alassane [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-28365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28365"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28365"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}