{"id":1264678,"date":"2022-12-13T14:17:29","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/13\/kenyan-athlete-receives-olympic-medal-10-years-late\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T14:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T14:17:29","slug":"kenyan-athlete-receives-olympic-medal-10-years-late","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/13\/kenyan-athlete-receives-olympic-medal-10-years-late\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan athlete receives Olympic medal 10 years late"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"624\" height=\"402\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/image_2022-12-13_102158491.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Kenya\u2019s Pamela Jelimo\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Ten years after finishing fourth in the 800m final at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Kenya\u2019s Pamela Jelimo has received a bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Jelimo, popularly known as Eldoret Express, was given the medal following the International Olympic Committee\u2019s (IOC) disqualification of Russia\u2019s Mariya Savinova due to a doping violation in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Savinova won the 800m gold medal in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the BBC, Jelimo condemned doping in sports, saying it was \u201ca menace for an athlete to progress career-wise\u201d,<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is like a dream. I initially didn\u2019t believe it when I heard the good news. It\u2019s truly a dream of every athlete to win a medal in the Olympics and I\u2019m honoured to have my parents accompany me and share this joy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The reallocation ceremony comes at a time when Kenya is in the spotlight due to high cases of doping and has recently escaped an international ban.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"uVri9kqmeBI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Karim Zito, Laryea Kingson take charge of Black Starlets \u2013 Agokansie - Adom TV News (12-12-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uVri9kqmeBI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ten years after finishing fourth in the 800m final at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, Kenya\u2019s Pamela Jelimo has received a bronze medal. Jelimo, popularly known as Eldoret Express, was given the medal following the International Olympic Committee\u2019s (IOC) disqualification of Russia\u2019s Mariya Savinova due to a doping violation in 2015.\u00a0 Savinova won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1264678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1264678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}