{"id":20511,"date":"2014-12-04T13:48:23","date_gmt":"2014-12-04T11:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=20511"},"modified":"2014-12-04T17:24:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-04T15:24:47","slug":"syria-to-participate-in-mena-games-in-egypt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=20511","title":{"rendered":"Syria to participate in MENA games in Egypt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cairo, SANA &#8211; Syria will participate in 10 games\u00a0of the 8th Special Olympics MENA Regional Games scheduled to be held in the Egyptian\u00a0capital, Cairo.<\/p>\n<p>Head of the Syrian mission to the Games, Talal\u00a0Barniyeh, expressed the Syrian Special Olympiad&#8217;s keenness to participate in the regional tournament\u00a0to give the Syrian athletes the opportunity to compete with others, especially that the Olympiad\u00a0activities have not been halted despite the\u00a0difficult circumstances in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Damascus hosted the first local tournament more\u00a0than two months ago, which was a great success, Barniyeh said, speaking to SANA Sports reporter.<\/p>\n<p>The 8th MENA Regional Games bring together 1,025\u00a0athletes representing 14 countries, including Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi\u00a0Arabia, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Tunisia,\u00a0Algeria, Morocco, Qatar and Iran, besides Syria.<\/p>\n<p>Syria&#8217;s participation, according to Barniyeh, will\u00a0include the following games: swimming, athletics, cycling, equestrian, weightlifting, table tennis,\u00a0badminton, gymnastics, skating and bocce.<\/p>\n<p>H. Zain\/H. Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Cairo, SANA &#8211; Syria will participate in 10 games\u00a0of the 8th Special Olympics MENA Regional Games scheduled to be held in the Egyptian\u00a0capital, Cairo. Head of the Syrian mission to the Games, Talal\u00a0Barniyeh, expressed the Syrian Special Olympiad&#8217;s keenness to participate in the regional tournament\u00a0to give the Syrian athletes the opportunity to compete with &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20512,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3348],"class_list":["post-20511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sport","tag-syria-to-participate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}