{"id":68426,"date":"2024-07-07T14:44:19","date_gmt":"2024-07-07T14:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/olympian-jackie-joyner-kersee-on-overcoming-adversity-and-winning-gold-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2024-07-07T14:44:19","modified_gmt":"2024-07-07T14:44:19","slug":"olympian-jackie-joyner-kersee-on-overcoming-adversity-and-winning-gold-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/olympian-jackie-joyner-kersee-on-overcoming-adversity-and-winning-gold-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympian Jackie Joyner-Kersee on overcoming adversity and winning gold | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the BBC\u2019s Katty Kay has sat down with some of the most <!--more--> legendary athletes from previous Olympic games for in-depth conversations about their lives, sports, and what it takes to succeed at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>This week, Katty chats to Olympic legend Jackie Joyner-Kersee \u2013 who has held the Olympic record for women\u2019s long jump and heptathlon for nearly 40 years.<\/p>\n<p>They discuss Joyner-Kersee\u2019s early beginnings, her rise to Olympic success, and what inspired her to return to her hometown and support her community.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, the BBC\u2019s Katty Kay has sat down with some of the most<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}