{"id":38450,"date":"2021-07-18T23:02:52","date_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38450"},"modified":"2021-07-18T23:02:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-18T23:02:52","slug":"lex-gillette-record-breaking-blind-long-jumper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38450","title":{"rendered":"Lex Gillette: Record-breaking blind long jumper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Lex Gillette is a four-time Paralympic medallist and world record holder in the long jump for totally blind athletes, competing around the world with the support of his sighted guide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He may be among the greatest athletes in the history of the Games to have not won gold \u2013 but could Tokyo 2020 be his time to triumph?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Find more stories about what it takes to win at <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/w13xtvgj\" class=\"ssrcss-9nsdc6-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">On the Podium<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"> from BBC World Service<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/disability-57851104\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lex Gillette is a four-time Paralympic medallist and world record holder in the long jump for totally blind athletes, competing around the world with the support of his sighted guide. He may be among the greatest athletes in the history of the Games to have not won gold \u2013 but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/119420626_p09phgxs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}