{"id":22002,"date":"2021-09-26T08:00:14","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T08:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=22002"},"modified":"2021-09-26T08:00:14","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T08:00:14","slug":"why-chinas-national-games-are-tougher-than-the-olympics-for-table-tennis-players-and-weightlifters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=22002","title":{"rendered":"Why China\u2019s National Games are tougher than the Olympics for table tennis players and weightlifters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOn August 23, 2008, thousands stood up to sing March of the Volunteers, the country\u2019s national anthem, as three Chinese flags fluttered in the breeze at the Peking University Gymnasium.As soon as the song ended, they clapped and cheered for Ma Lin, Wang Hao and Wang Liqin, the Chinese athletes who had just won gold, silver and bronze medals at the Beijing Olympics for the men\u2019s singles table tennis. Just like the women\u2019s singles event the day before, China had ruled the medals podium.But podium\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3150145\/why-chinas-national-games-are-tougher-olympics-table-tennis?utm_source=rss_feed\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostOn August 23, 2008, thousands stood up to sing March of the Volunteers, the country\u2019s national anthem, as three Chinese flags fluttered in the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22002"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}