{"id":341,"date":"2018-08-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/china.chinaacheru.com\/wp\/2018\/08\/11\/november-08th-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-08-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-08-11T00:00:00","slug":"november-08th-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/november-08th-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Sports has brought me to Nigeria, says Grace Edwin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<span class=\"imgPusher\" style=\"float:left;height:0px\"><\/span><span style=\"display: table;width:auto;position:relative;float:left;max-width:100%;;clear:left;margin-top:0px;*margin-top:0px\"><a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chinaacheru.com\/uploads\/1\/0\/1\/5\/10158091\/whatsapp-image-2018-11-08-at-1-32-16-pm_1_orig.jpeg\" style=\"margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px; border-width:1px;padding:3px; max-width:100%\" alt=\"Picture\" class=\"galleryImageBorder wsite-image\" title=\"Sports has brought me to Nigeria, says Grace Edwin\"><\/a><span style=\"display: table-caption; caption-side: bottom; font-size: 90%; margin-top: -10px; margin-bottom: 10px; text-align: center;\" class=\"wsite-caption\">Grace Edwin<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"paragraph\" style=\"display:block;\"><font size=\"4\"><strong>By Doyin Oladosu<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<\/strong>Ghanaian hurdler, Grace Edwin insists that she may never have come to Nigeria if not for her participation in sports.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Edwin is representing the University for Development Studies in Ghana at the West African University Games in the 400 meters hurdles event and told ChinaAcheru.com that she is in Nigeria because of sports.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cIf not because of the sports I don\u2019t think I would have even come here,\u201d Edwin said.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>While speaking to chinaacheru.com, Grace said that sports provided her with the opportunity of coming to Nigeria for the first time.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI didn\u2019t even know where Nigeria was as I have been hearing the name but had no idea where it was until now that sports has brought me here.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>She adds that she would want sports to take her to many more places.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cI know because of the sports I will go farther than Nigeria.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The 400m hurdles runner also spoke about her difficulties adapting to Nigerian food.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cYou know we are not used to your food, we are suffering seriously and frankly speaking we are really suffering.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Grace also spoke about her challenges getting her parents to support her decision to be an athlete.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cSome of the people will be telling our parents that as ladies we are not supposed to engage in sporting activities.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u201cThey say we will not be able to give birth and maybe not even get a husband.\u201d<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>In the 400 m hurdlers, Grace Edwin won a bronze medal at the West African University Games.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<\/font><\/div>\n<hr style=\"width:100%;clear:both;visibility:hidden;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Edwin By Doyin Oladosu \u200bGhanaian hurdler, Grace Edwin insists that she may never have come to Nigeria if not for her participation in sports.\u00a0Edwin is representing the University for Development Studies in Ghana at the West African University Games in the 400 meters hurdles event and told ChinaAcheru.com that she is in Nigeria because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_surecart_dashboard_logo_width":"180px","_surecart_dashboard_show_logo":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_orders":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_invoices":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_subscriptions":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_downloads":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_billing":true,"_surecart_dashboard_navigation_account":true,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"china","author_link":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/author\/china\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Grace Edwin By Doyin Oladosu \u200bGhanaian hurdler, Grace Edwin insists that she may never have come to Nigeria if not for her participation in sports.\u00a0Edwin is representing the University for Development Studies in Ghana at the West African University Games in the 400 meters hurdles event and told ChinaAcheru.com that she is in Nigeria because&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinaacheru.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}