{"id":234191,"date":"2024-02-07T01:01:55","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=234191"},"modified":"2024-02-07T01:01:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T19:31:55","slug":"nagaland-to-host-3rd-ne-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2024\/02\/07\/nagaland-to-host-3rd-ne-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagaland to host 3rd NE Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 6 Feb:<\/strong> Nagaland will host the 3rd North East Olympic Games (NOEG) from 18 to 23 March.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Games will comprise 16 disciplines &#8211; archery, athletics, boxing, badminton, basketball, lawn tennis, pencak silat, sepak takraw, table tennis, taekwondo, freestyle wrestling, belt wrestling and wushu &#8211; for both men and women, besides cricket, football and volleyball for men only, Nagaland Olympic Association (NOA), the organiser, said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We are pleased to introduce cricket for men as a new introduction, considering the fact that cricket has been introduced as an Olympic sport. We are also pleased to introduce belt wrestling, as it is a popular traditional and indigenous sport in Nagaland and other parts of the region and it is in line with our aspiration to promote traditional and indigenous sports,&#8221; the NOA said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;In certain disciplines, categories for both men and women have been avoided due to limitations in accommodation facilities and availability of sports grounds,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Games will be held in Dimapur, Kohima and Ch\u00fcmoukedima districts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 6 Feb: Nagaland will host the 3rd North East Olympic Games (NOEG) from 18 to 23 March. The Games will comprise 16 disciplines &#8211; archery, athletics, boxing, badminton, basketball, lawn tennis, pencak silat, sepak takraw, table tennis, taekwondo, freestyle wrestling, belt wrestling and wushu &#8211; for both men and women, besides cricket, football and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-234191","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234191","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=234191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}