{"id":49481,"date":"2018-10-23T02:10:45","date_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=49481"},"modified":"2018-10-23T02:10:45","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T20:40:45","slug":"state-team-for-ne-olympic-games-leaves-for-manipur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/10\/23\/state-team-for-ne-olympic-games-leaves-for-manipur\/","title":{"rendered":"State team for NE Olympic Games leaves for Manipur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>CHIMPU, Oct 22:<\/strong> The Arunachal Pradesh contingent for the first North East Olympic Games departed for Imphal, Manipur, on Monday. Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Secretary Dani Salu flagged off the team at the Sangay Lhaden Sports Academy complex here.<br \/>\nSalu encouraged the athletes to perform up to their potential and bring laurels to the state by winning medals.<br \/>\nHighlighting the recent performance of the state&#8217;s athletes in various national and regional events, he said &#8220;Arunachal is now becoming a sports power in the country.&#8221;<br \/>\nArunachal Olympic Association secretary general Abraham K Techi and Arunachal Karate Do Association president Likha Tara briefed the players about the games.<br \/>\nBoth Tara and Abraham advised them to maintain team spirit and discipline throughout the Games.<br \/>\nThe state has fielded 184 athletes in the Games, scheduled to begin at Khuman Lampak Sports Complex (Imphal) on 24 October.<br \/>\nThe Games will feature 12 sports disciplines &#8211; archery, athletics, badminton, boxing, football (men &amp; women), judo, karate, shooting, Taekwondo, table tennis, weightlifting, and Wushu.<br \/>\nArunachal Pradesh will compete in all the 12 disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter CHIMPU, Oct 22: The Arunachal Pradesh contingent for the first North East Olympic Games departed for Imphal, Manipur, on Monday. Sports &amp; Youth Affairs Secretary Dani Salu flagged off the team at the Sangay Lhaden Sports Academy complex here. Salu encouraged the athletes to perform up to their potential and bring laurels to [&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-49481","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\/49481","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=49481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}