{"id":38804,"date":"2021-07-22T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T23:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38804"},"modified":"2021-07-22T23:00:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T23:00:19","slug":"the-refugee-athlete-who-lost-his-mum-to-covid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=38804","title":{"rendered":"The refugee athlete who lost his mum to Covid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Abdullah Sediqi escaped gang violence in Afghanistan and fled to Belgium where he continued his taekwondo training in a refugee camp. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The 24-year-old is now competing at the Tokyo Games as part of the Olympic Refugee Team. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He is also mourning his mother who he lost to Covid last year. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">He joins 29 displaced athletes from around the world who will be competing under the Olympic flag and anthem. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced and animated by Elaine Jung<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Visual effects design by Jilla Dastmalchi<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Camerawork by Maarten Lernout<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-57937673\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abdullah Sediqi escaped gang violence in Afghanistan and fled to Belgium where he continued his taekwondo training in a refugee camp. The 24-year-old is now competing at the Tokyo Games as part of the Olympic Refugee Team. He is also mourning his mother who he lost to Covid last year. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38805,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38804","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\/119542631_p09q5qrn.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38804","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=38804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}