{"id":2090,"date":"2024-07-20T04:20:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-20T04:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympics-how-abebe-bikila-changed-african-running\/"},"modified":"2024-07-20T04:20:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T04:20:26","slug":"olympics-how-abebe-bikila-changed-african-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/olympics-how-abebe-bikila-changed-african-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics: How Abebe Bikila changed African running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">From serving Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia to becoming a marathon legend, Abebe Bikila made history as the first black African man to win an Olympic gold medal in Rome in 1960.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He then became the first athlete to win back-to-back marathons at the Games, defending his title in Tokyo in 1964.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">After years at the top of his sport, Bikila suffered life-changing injuries which left him unable to walk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But he competed in, and won, competitions for disabled athletes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World famous while he was alive, the Ethiopian has inspired generations of athletes, but his incredible story has been forgotten by many outside of his home country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Produced and edited by Marta Pausilli.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/videos\/cne4d214rgno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From serving Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia to becoming a marathon legend, Abebe Bikila made history as the first black African man to win an Olympic gold medal in Rome in 1960. He then became the first athlete to win back-to-back marathons at the Games, defending his title in Tokyo in 1964. After years at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2091,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2092,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2090\/revisions\/2092"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}