{"id":7686,"date":"2016-08-02T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2016\/08\/02\/russian-athletes-await-decision-on-status-to-compete-in-rio-olympics\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T20:30:00","slug":"russian-athletes-await-decision-on-status-to-compete-in-rio-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/russian-athletes-await-decision-on-status-to-compete-in-rio-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Athletes Await Decision On Status To Compete In Rio Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a class=\"colorbox\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/02\/488412796\/russian-athletes-await-decision-on-status-to-compete-in-rio-olympics?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\">Tom Goldman<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<p>Confusion surrounds many Russian athletes in Rio, whose status to compete in the Olympics remains unclear. Individual sports federations are trying to determine who&#8217;s eligible to compete with only days left before the games begin. Some athletes have appealed their suspensions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/02\/488412796\/russian-athletes-await-decision-on-status-to-compete-in-rio-olympics?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports\" class=\"colorbox\" title=\"Russian Athletes Await Decision On Status To Compete In Rio Olympics\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2016\/08\/02\/488412796\/russian-athletes-await-decision-on-status-to-compete-in-rio-olympics?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=sports<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confusion surrounds many Russian athletes in Rio, whose status to compete in the Olympics remains unclear. Individual sports federations are trying to determine who&#8217;s eligible to compete with only days left before the games begin. Some athletes have appealed their suspensions.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a class=\"colorbox\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[221],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}