{"id":75319,"date":"2025-05-17T15:23:33","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75319"},"modified":"2025-05-17T15:23:33","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T15:23:33","slug":"paralympic-gold-medalist-banned-for-life-over-disability-test-as-shes-not-actually-blind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/05\/17\/paralympic-gold-medalist-banned-for-life-over-disability-test-as-shes-not-actually-blind\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympic gold medalist banned for life over disability test \u2013 as she&#8217;s not actually blind"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1EXAu9.img?w=534&amp;h=355&amp;m=6\" alt=\"Gold medalist Shahana Hajiyeva of Azerbaijan is seen on the podium at the medal ceremony for the Women's -48kg Judo on day 3 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Nippon Budokan on August 27, 2021 in Tokyo, Japan\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A Paralympic gold medallist has been banned for life from their category after failing a disability classification test. Shahana Hajiyeva, who was a member of the Azerbaijani Paralympic team,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/health\/other\/paralympic-gold-medalist-banned-for-life-over-disability-test-as-she-s-not-actually-blind\/ar-AA1EXMem?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=720a28abbafd496b91204758b301175d&amp;ei=14\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>A Paralympic gold medallist has been banned for life from their category after failing a disability classification test. Shahana Hajiyeva, who was&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/olympics.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75320,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75319\/revisions\/75320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}