{"id":39448,"date":"2021-08-02T23:05:54","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T23:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39448"},"modified":"2021-08-02T23:05:54","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T23:05:54","slug":"tokyo-2020-you-can-take-our-flag-but-not-our-love-for-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=39448","title":{"rendered":"Tokyo 2020: &#8216;You can take our flag but not our love for Russia&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Russia is banned from Toyko 2020 because of past doping violations but more than 300 athletes are competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee \u2013 and they\u2019re winning a string of medals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">That&#8217;s upset some rival athletes, who\u2019ve openly speculated that the Russians are still cheating or complain their very presence at the games leaves a bad taste.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">But, in Russia itself, many feel their athletes have been punished \u2013 unable to use their national flag or anthem \u2013  and Russian officials have hit back at the criticism, calling it &#8220;the whining of losers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-58063003\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia is banned from Toyko 2020 because of past doping violations but more than 300 athletes are competing under the banner of the Russian Olympic Committee \u2013 and they\u2019re winning a string of medals. That&#8217;s upset some rival athletes, who\u2019ve openly speculated that the Russians are still cheating or complain [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39449,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39448","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\/08\/119717783_p09r505v.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39448","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=39448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/39449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}