{"id":240,"date":"2008-08-22T08:48:51","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T13:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=240"},"modified":"2008-08-22T08:48:51","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T13:48:51","slug":"rp-wushu-athlete-cops-gold-in-olympic-demo-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/rp-wushu-athlete-cops-gold-in-olympic-demo-sport\/","title":{"rendered":"RP wushu athlete cops gold in Olympic demo sport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great News nonetheless.<br \/>\nfrom GMA News <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gmanews.tv\/story\/115531\/(Update)-RP-wushu-athlete-cops-gold-in-Olympic-demo-sport\">here<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>(Update) RP wushu athlete cops gold in Olympic demo sport<br \/>\n08\/22\/2008 | 09:20 PM<br \/>\nMANILA, Philippines \u2013 The Philippines can find some solace in Willy Wang\u2019s feat.<br \/>\nWang won the gold medal in the combined events of men\u2019s nanquan and nangun (bare fists) Friday to somehow make up for the country\u2019s listless performance in the Beijing Olympics.<br \/>\nBut because wushu is only a demonstration sport, Wang\u2019s victory will not count in the regular medal standings.<br \/>\n<strong>The wushu gold is reminiscent of the gold medal won by Arianne Cerde\u00f1a in the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Cerde\u00f1a\u2019s triumph in bowling did not count because it was an exhibition sport. \u2013 <\/strong>GMANews.TV<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t know this bowling factiod. Hmmm if only Nepomuceno was a lot younger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great News nonetheless. from GMA News here (Update) RP wushu athlete cops gold in Olympic demo sport 08\/22\/2008 | 09:20 PM MANILA, Philippines \u2013 The Philippines can find some solace in Willy Wang\u2019s feat. Wang won the gold medal in the combined events of men\u2019s nanquan and nangun (bare fists) Friday to somehow make up &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/22\/rp-wushu-athlete-cops-gold-in-olympic-demo-sport\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;RP wushu athlete cops gold in Olympic demo sport&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philippines","category-sports"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}