{"id":44719,"date":"2023-07-13T10:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-13T04:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=44719"},"modified":"2023-07-12T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T15:44:03","slug":"twenty-five-nepali-players-to-participate-in-summer-universiade-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2023\/07\/13\/twenty-five-nepali-players-to-participate-in-summer-universiade-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-five Nepali players to participate in Summer Universiade in China"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu<\/strong>: Twenty-five Nepali players from various sports disciplines are going to participate in FISU World University Games which is taking place later this month in Chengdu, the economic hub and the capital of China\u2019s Sichuan province. Purna Singh Bohara, General Secretary of University Association of Nepal (USAN), who will lead the delegation from the Nepal side, confirmed Nepal\u2019s participation. \u201cIt\u2019s confirmed, Nepal will participate in that prestigious event,\u201d said Bohara. \u201cI have the hope and confidence that our players will perform well and keep the prestige of the country high.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Bohara, Nepal will participate in seven events. They include fencing, table tennis, Wushu, shooting, taekwondo, badminton and athletics. Apart from Bohara, Pradeep Joshi, the president of USAN and Shiva Koirala, the vice president of National Sports Council, will be the members of Nepali delegation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Summer Universiade is scheduled to start on July 28 in Chengdu, which will be the third Chinese city to host the Summer Universiade, after Beijing in 2001 and Shenzhen in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe hope to win some of the events and bring medals home,\u201d said Bohara.&nbsp; The Summer Universiade, an international multi-sports event, organized for university athletes by the International University Sports Federation (FISU), is expected to draw over 10,000 student-athletes and officials from over 150 countries competing over 12 days.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[Related:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2023\/06\/04\/university-sports-association-general-secretary-says-he-is-struggling-for-funds\/\"> University Sports Association General Secretary says he is struggling for funds<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Twenty-five Nepali players from various sports disciplines are going to participate in FISU World University Games which is taking place later this month in Chengdu, the economic hub and the capital of China\u2019s Sichuan province. Purna Singh Bohara, General Secretary of University Association of Nepal (USAN), who will lead the delegation from the Nepal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":44720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/07\/Chengdu.jpeg?fit=1024%2C715&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-bDh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44719"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44722,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44719\/revisions\/44722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}