{"id":23,"date":"2012-06-12T06:33:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-12T06:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/?page_id=23"},"modified":"2016-07-26T15:27:23","modified_gmt":"2016-07-26T15:27:23","slug":"olympians","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/olympians\/","title":{"rendered":"OLYMPIANS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Here<\/span> is a sampling of the inspiring Olympians and their remarkable stories that will be covered in this book.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Billy Mills<\/strong>: An unknown athlete beats World Record Holder to win the 10,000 meters race at Tokyo 1964 Olympics..\u00a0 Amazing finish.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jamaica Bobsled Team<\/strong> : The inspiring story of how a team from a tropical country competed in a Winter Olympics event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Lawrence Lemieux<\/strong> : The touching story of how this yachtsman left his silver medal chance to rescue the lives of two fallen sailors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Masahiko Harada<\/strong> : The gut-wrenching story of this Japanese Ski jumper overcame the demons of continuous defeats to take his team to gold.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Hidecki Hoketsu<\/strong>: A story that teaches you are never too old to compete. Here is a 71 years old rider who rides a horse that is the human equivalent of 63 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Wilma Rudolph<\/strong>: Prematurely born, this girl had infant paralysis, scarlet fever, whooping cough, chickenpox, and measles. Overcame all that to win 3 gold medals in athletics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Greg Louganis<\/strong> : Diver who hurt his head and then went on to win the Gold with stitches in his head.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Derek Redmond and his father<\/strong>: Touching story of a father &amp; son relationship and how you eventually succeed in life when you never give up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Jesse Owens<\/strong>: At 1936 Olympics, an African American proved the powerful Nazi regime wrong by winning gold medals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Karoly Takacs<\/strong>: Astonishing story of a shooter who loses his right hand in a grenade attack and then goes on to win Olympic medals by shooting with his left hand!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a sampling of the inspiring Olympians and their remarkable stories that will be covered in this book. Billy Mills: An unknown athlete beats World [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/23\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kiruba.com\/olympics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}