{"id":30494,"date":"2021-08-26T19:27:06","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=30494"},"modified":"2021-08-26T19:27:07","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T14:57:07","slug":"iran-wheelchair-basketball-fall-short-against-australia-2020-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/30494\/iran-wheelchair-basketball-fall-short-against-australia-2020-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran wheelchair basketball fall short against Australia: \u06f2\u06f0\u06f2\u06f0 Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"summary\">TOKYO \u2013 Iran started the 2020 Paralympic Games with an 81-39 loss against Australia in Group B of the 2020 Paralympic Games at the Ariake Arena on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Brett Stibners top-scored for Australia with 21 points and seven rebounds, while Bill Latham scored 15 points, Tristan Knowles (12), and Shaun Norris (11) also hit double figures.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammadhassan Sayari led Iran with 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>Iran will meet defending champions the U.S. on Friday, Zardis News correspondent Masoud Hossein reports from Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe didn\u2019t expect to lose by the result. We have a difficult task because our Group B teams are very strong,\u201d Iran coach Abbas Aghakouchaki said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe other teams have held so many warm-up matches before the Games began. We learned from the loss and from now on we concentrate on our next matches,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO \u2013 Iran started the 2020 Paralympic Games with an 81-39 loss against Australia in Group B of the 2020 Paralympic Games at the Ariake Arena on Thursday. Brett Stibners top-scored for Australia with 21 points and seven rebounds, while Bill Latham scored 15 points, Tristan Knowles (12), and Shaun Norris (11) also hit double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[7132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}