{"id":20952,"date":"2026-05-09T12:03:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=20952"},"modified":"2026-05-09T12:03:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T12:03:30","slug":"national-wheelchair-basketball-tournament-begins-in-kabul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/05\/09\/national-wheelchair-basketball-tournament-begins-in-kabul\/","title":{"rendered":"National wheelchair basketball tournament begins in Kabul"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: The General Directorate of Olympics, Physical Education, and Sports has announced the start of a national wheelchair basketball tournament featuring eight of the country\u2019s top teams in Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to a statement released on Saturday, the tournament is being held at the indoor sports complex of the directorate and aims to encourage people with disabilities to participate in sports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The competition brings together 80 wheelchair athletes from the provinces of Herat, Faryab, Balkh, Badakhshan, Nangarhar, Parwan, Laghman, and Kabul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The wheelchair basketball teams are scheduled to compete over the next three days as part of the tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the opening match, Kabul\u2019s wheelchair basketball team defeated Faryab with a score of 49\u201333.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s sports authorities say efforts to promote sports development and identify athletic talent across different disciplines are continuing nationwide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: The General Directorate of Olympics, Physical Education, and Sports has announced the start of a national wheelchair basketball tournament featuring eight of the country\u2019s top teams in Kabul. According to a statement released on Saturday, the tournament is being held at the indoor sports complex of the directorate and aims to encourage people with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20954,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20952\/revisions\/20954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}