{"id":38828,"date":"2018-08-10T12:28:59","date_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=38828"},"modified":"2018-08-10T12:28:59","modified_gmt":"2018-08-10T12:28:59","slug":"javelin-thrower-neeraj-chopra-to-be-indias-flag-bearer-at-asian-games-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/javelin-thrower-neeraj-chopra-to-be-indias-flag-bearer-at-asian-games-opening-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra to be India&#8217;s flag-bearer at Asian Games opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has been named the Indian contingent&#8217;s flag-bearer for the Asian Games opening ceremony to be held on August 18 in Jakarta.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra made the announcement on Friday during the send-off ceremony organised for the contingent. The Games will be held from August 18 to September 2 in the Indonesian cities of Jakarta and Palembang.<\/p>\n<p>Neeraj had won the gold medal in the Asian Athletic championships in 2017 with a throw of 85.23 meters. He had also bagged a gold in the 2016 IAAF World U-20 Championships in Bydgoszcz, Poland.<\/p>\n<p>Former Hockey captain Sardar Singh was India&#8217;s flag-bearer at the 2014 Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>Indian athletes had won 57 medals, comprising 11 gold, 10 silver and 36 bronze medals in the previous edition at Incheon, South Korea.<\/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>Star javelin thrower Neeraj Chopra has been named the Indian contingent&#8217;s flag-bearer for the Asian Games opening ceremony to be held on August 18 in Jakarta. Indian Olympic Association president Narinder Batra made the announcement on Friday during the send-off ceremony organised for the contingent. The Games will be held from August 18 to September [&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":38829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38828","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\/38828","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=38828"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38830,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38828\/revisions\/38830"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}