{"id":172254,"date":"2021-09-21T00:33:23","date_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=172254"},"modified":"2021-09-21T00:33:23","modified_gmt":"2021-09-20T19:03:23","slug":"paralympics-bronze-winner-sharad-kumar-admitted-to-aiims-after-chest-congestion-says-feeling-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/09\/21\/paralympics-bronze-winner-sharad-kumar-admitted-to-aiims-after-chest-congestion-says-feeling-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympics bronze winner Sharad Kumar admitted to AIIMS after chest congestion, says feeling better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>New Delhi, Sep 20 (PTI):<\/strong>\u00a0Paralympics bronze-medallist high jumper\u00a0Sharad Kumar has been admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after experiencing chest congestion but he is &#8220;feeling better&#8221; now.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kumar, who won a bronze in the T-42 high jump event in the Tokyo Paralympics on 31 August, is awaiting his test reports after he was admitted to the prestigious medical facility four days back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I have been here for four days after feeling chest congestion. I am feeling better now,&#8221; Kumar told PTI.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Everyday, there is a test and the doctors are going to tell (what is future course of action) in a day or two,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 29-year-old Patna-born athlete, whose left leg was paralysed after he was administered a spurious polio vaccine as a toddler, had competed in the T-42 final despite suffering a knee injury while training before his event. He later said he was on the verge of pulling out of the competition. He jumped 1.83m to win the bronze.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I had my meniscus dislocated (during training). I cried whole night and thought of pulling out of the event. I spoke to my family back home and my father asked me to read Bhagavad Gita and focus on what I can do and not on what I have no control over,&#8221; he had said then.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kumar is a double Asian Para Games (2014 and 2018) high jump champion and world silver medallist (2019).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The T42 classification is for athletes with a leg deficiency, leg length difference, impaired muscle power or impaired passive range of movement in the legs. The athletes compete in a standing position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi, Sep 20 (PTI):\u00a0Paralympics bronze-medallist high jumper\u00a0Sharad Kumar has been admitted to All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) after experiencing chest congestion but he is &#8220;feeling better&#8221; now. Kumar, who won a bronze in the T-42 high jump event in the Tokyo Paralympics on 31 August, is awaiting his test reports after he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-172254","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}