{"id":36187,"date":"2018-07-05T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=36187"},"modified":"2018-07-05T12:03:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:03:24","slug":"sushil-kumar-loses-first-bout-in-four-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/sushil-kumar-loses-first-bout-in-four-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Sushil Kumar loses first bout in four years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi<br \/>\nCelebrated Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar lost his first bout in more than four years while competing at Tbilisi Grand Prix in Georgia even as his compatriots Bajrang Punia and Deepak Punia progressed to the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Sushil lost 4-8 to Polish grappler Andrzej Piotr Sokalski in the 74 kg category. It\u2019s not an ideal result for Sushil in the build up to the Asian Games. The WFI had exempted him from trials, held last month.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old was handed exemption, give his past result and form as he had won his third CWG gold in Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Before today\u2019s defeat, Sushil had lost a bout way back in May 2014 in Sassari where he lost to Luca Lampis of France.<\/p>\n<p>Sushil was re-admitted to the Target Olympic Podium Scheme after a gap of two years last month.<\/p>\n<p>In the 65kg freestyle, Bajrang defeated Ukraine\u2019s Gor Ogannesyan to set up a quarterfinal clash with Iran\u2019s Yones Aliakbar Emamichoghaei.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi Celebrated Indian wrestler Sushil Kumar lost his first bout in more than four years while competing at Tbilisi Grand Prix in Georgia even as his compatriots Bajrang Punia and Deepak Punia progressed to the quarterfinals. Sushil lost 4-8 to Polish grappler Andrzej Piotr Sokalski in the 74 kg category. It\u2019s not an ideal [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36188,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36189,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36187\/revisions\/36189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}