{"id":78982,"date":"2016-08-08T01:51:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sierraexpressmedia.com\/?p=78982"},"modified":"2016-08-08T01:51:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-08T01:51:56","slug":"salone-swimmers-super-excited-to-be-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/?p=78982","title":{"rendered":"Salone swimmers \u2018super-excited&#8217; to be at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sierra Leone swimmers; Binturabie Jalloh and Osman Kamara said they are &#8220;super excited&#8221; at the prospect of competing in their first Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo: <em>Posing with swimmers at the Games Village)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jalloh and Kamara will both compete in the Swimming Women&#8217;s &amp; Men\u2019s 50m Freestyle event respectively and the duo are living in their dreams in Rio as they awaits their competing date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve been excited about the Olympics,&#8221; Kamara said in an interview after the team\u2019s parade in Friday\u2019s opening ceremony. The feel to be around other top name athletes in the Games village is one thing that keeps the duo more excited.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I already love the reception, the atmosphere here and it feels great to stay in the village and get to meet other athletes,&#8221; Jalloh who was the country\u2019s flag bearer during the opening ceremony said.<em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Credit: Sports Writers Association of Sierra Leone (SWASAL), Fully Supported By: Ministry of Sports (MOS)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>By: Sahr Morris Jr. in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Stay with Sierra Express Media, for your trusted place in news!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sierra Leone swimmers; Binturabie Jalloh and Osman Kamara said they are &#8220;super excited&#8221; at the prospect of competing in their first Olympics in Rio de [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":78983,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[671,824],"tags":[21376,8575],"class_list":["post-78982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-sports","tag-binturabie-jalloh","tag-osman-kamara"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/78983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sierraexpressmedia.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}