{"id":964783,"date":"2024-07-08T14:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/dm-simulator-v2\/?p=964783"},"modified":"2024-07-08T14:40:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:40:28","slug":"sascoc-names-26-athletes-for-2024-paralympic-games-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/sascoc-names-26-athletes-for-2024-paralympic-games-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"SASCOC names 26 athletes for 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The South African Sports Confederation, Olympic and Paralympic Committee (SASCOC) has announced an initial squad of 26 athletes to represent Team South Africa at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Qualification windows haven&#8217;t closed for a number of sporting codes and more names will be added before the team departs for the French capital in August.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes announced represent seven different sporting codes.\u00a0The squad is made up of a mixture of experienced and first-time Paralympians, including three medalists from Tokyo 2020.<\/p>\n<p>They are cyclist Pieter du Preez and track and field athletes Louzanne Coetzee and Sheryl James.<\/p>\n<p>Team SA won a total of seven medals in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GaytonMcK?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@GaytonMcK<\/a> has handed over the South African flag and delivered an inspiring message to the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OfficialTeamRSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@OfficialTeamRSA<\/a> Paralympic Team. Today, the South African team for the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Paris2024?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@Paris2024<\/a> Paralympics was announced <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WinningNation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#WinningNation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ActiveNation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ActiveNation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3667nAYRRL\">pic.twitter.com\/3667nAYRRL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Department of Sport, Arts and Culture (@SportArtsCultur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportArtsCultur\/status\/1810260197228548237?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 8, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SASCOC announces initial squad of 26 athletes for 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":964784,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[225],"tags":[862],"class_list":["post-964783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-2020-tokyo-paralympics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=964783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/964783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/964784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=964783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=964783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elections.sabc.co.za\/elections2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=964783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}