{"id":2742,"date":"2025-03-09T14:07:52","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/gambia-faces-setbacks-at-ecowas-african-wrestling-tournament-in-abuja\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T14:07:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T14:07:52","slug":"gambia-faces-setbacks-at-ecowas-african-wrestling-tournament-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/gambia-faces-setbacks-at-ecowas-african-wrestling-tournament-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Gambia Faces Setbacks at ECOWAS African Wrestling Tournament in Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Gambia\u2019s national wrestling team faced a tough outing at the just-concluded ECOWAS African Wrestling Tournament in Abuja, Nigeria, finishing fourth in the group stages and failing to advance beyond the first round in the individual categories.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s campaign was significantly hampered by the disqualification of two Gambian wrestlers during the weigh-in before the tournament commenced. This setback affected the squad\u2019s overall performance, making it difficult for the team to progress against strong opposition from across the region.<\/p>\n<p>Despite their efforts, The Gambia struggled to gain momentum, crashing out early in the individual categories and missing out on a place in the tournament\u2019s latter stages.<\/p>\n<p>The competition, which ended yesterday, showcased intense rivalries among West African nations, with some of the continent\u2019s top wrestlers battling for supremacy.<\/p>\n<p>The Gambian team is currently en route to Banjul, where they will regroup and assess the lessons learned from this experience as they prepare for future international competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The Gambia\u2019s national wrestling team faced a tough outing at the just-concluded ECOWAS&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.techhivetechnologies.com\/blocktvgambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}