{"id":83859,"date":"2020-11-12T11:27:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=83859"},"modified":"2020-11-12T11:27:09","modified_gmt":"2020-11-12T11:27:09","slug":"wrestling-to-organize-individual-world-cup-in-lieu-of-2020-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wrestling-to-organize-individual-world-cup-in-lieu-of-2020-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Wrestling to Organize &#8216;Individual World Cup&#8217; in lieu of 2020 World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After not reaching the criteria defined by the United World Wrestling Bureau in June to host a &#8216;World Championship, the decision was made Tuesday to organize an \u201cIndividual World Cup\u201d as substitute event.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>National Federations had been given until Thursday, November 5th to confirm their interest in participating at the 2020 World Championships. UWW had set a benchmark requiring that at least 8 of 10 of the top nations from the 2019 World Championships, and 70% of total athletes, participate in 2020. With many nations reinstating travel restrictions in response to COVID-19 the participation hurdles were not met. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe want to see our athletes compete again on the mat. It\u2019s important to our organization and we are committed to providing them an opportunity,\u201d said United World Wrestling president Nenad Lalovic. \u201cThere are real challenges to overcome, but we are working together to find a safe and acceptable format where our top athletes can compete in a world class event.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The \u201cIndividual World Cup\u201d will be held in Belgrade with final confirmation of dates expected in the coming days. The event will include a prize pool of 300,000 CHF spread evenly across the 30 weight categories.<\/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>After not reaching the criteria defined by the United World Wrestling Bureau in June to host a &#8216;World Championship, the decision was made Tuesday to organize an \u201cIndividual World Cup\u201d as substitute event. National Federations had been given until Thursday, November 5th to confirm their interest in participating at the 2020 World Championships. UWW had [&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":83860,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83859","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\/83859","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=83859"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83861,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83859\/revisions\/83861"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}