{"id":39468,"date":"2026-03-05T23:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/explained-why-are-nations-boycotting-the-paralympic-winter-games-opening-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T23:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T23:56:13","slug":"explained-why-are-nations-boycotting-the-paralympic-winter-games-opening-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/05\/explained-why-are-nations-boycotting-the-paralympic-winter-games-opening-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Explained: Why are nations boycotting the Paralympic Winter games opening ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Sports senior reporter Geraint Hughes is in Milano Cortina ahead of the Winter Paralympics and explains why some nations will boycott the opening ceremony on Friday.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.skysports.com\/more-sports\/winter-sports\/video\/30998\/13515590\/explained-why-are-nations-boycotting-the-winter-paralympics-opening-ceremony\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sky Sports senior reporter Geraint Hughes is in Milano Cortina ahead of the Winter Paralympics and explains why some nations will boycott the opening ceremony on Friday.Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}