{"id":5740,"date":"2013-02-08T08:14:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-08T08:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/uganda-wins-gold-at-seoul-special-olympics-winter\/"},"modified":"2013-02-08T08:22:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T08:22:56","slug":"uganda-wins-gold-at-seoul-special-olympics-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/uganda-wins-gold-at-seoul-special-olympics-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda wins Gold at Seoul Special Olympics winter Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Uganda has won a gold medal in the world special Olympics winter games in the Unified Hockey event in Seoul.}}<\/p>\n<p>The side overcame Chinese Taipei 5-2 in the final game of the round robin event to accumulate 9 points that saw them reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda managed to finish among the top four countries as well as going unbeaten in the competition that attracted 3,000 athletes with disabilities from over 110 countries.<\/p>\n<p>They qualified for the final round, where they beat Hong Kong 2-1, after a costly semi-final game against Italy that left many of the players nursing injuries.<\/p>\n<p>According to team captain Charles Okello, the team had all it needed to win but had to navigate past some barriers on their way to success.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm happy that I led a team that made Uganda proud, but it was not easy because we suffered a lot of injuries during the game against Italy\u201d said Okello during their ceremonial party held in Makindye.<\/p>\n<p>Africa was represented by only four countries including Nigeria, South Africa and Kenya. Canada was the overalll winner with 15 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze medal. California will host the next event in 2015.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1937 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eds.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Uganda has won a gold medal in the world special Olympics winter games in the Unified Hockey event in Seoul.}} The side overcame Chinese Taipei 5-2 in the final game of the round robin event to accumulate 9 points that saw them reach the semi-finals. Uganda managed to finish among the top four countries as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[99],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-5740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-greatlakesnews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=5740"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=5740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}