{"id":265570,"date":"2021-08-06T08:40:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=210983"},"modified":"2021-08-06T08:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-06T08:40:18","slug":"the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-olympic-refugee-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/08\/06\/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-olympic-refugee-team\/","title":{"rendered":"The Triumph and Tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic Refugee Team filing into the stadium during Tokyo\u2019s opening ceremonies provided a powerful, moving sight: almost 30 athletes, carrying the Olympic flag, striding alongside the delegations of almost every country in the world. Instead of their home countries, these refugees represent the millions around the world who\u2019ve been forcibly displaced from their homes.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/06\/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-olympic-refugee-team\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/06\/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-olympic-refugee-team\/\">The Triumph and Tragedy of the Olympic Refugee Team<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/08\/06\/the-triumph-and-tragedy-of-the-olympic-refugee-team\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Olympic Refugee Team filing into the stadium during Tokyo\u2019s opening ceremonies provided a powerful, moving sight: almost 30 athletes, carrying the Olympic flag, striding alongside the delegations of almost every country in the world. Instead of the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2874,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265570"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265571,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265570\/revisions\/265571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}