{"id":852,"date":"2010-03-01T14:07:56","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T03:07:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=852"},"modified":"2010-07-26T18:19:10","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T07:19:10","slug":"sportaccord-combat-games-beijing-peoples-republic-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/?p=852","title":{"rendered":"SportAccord Combat Games, Beijing, Peoples Republic of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In March 2009,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportaccord.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">SportAccord<\/a> signed an agreement with the city of Beijing, Peoples Republic of China,\u00a0to organise the first SportAccord Combat Games. \u00a0<!--more-->Scheduled from 28 August to 4 September 2010, the competition will showcase 13 Martial Arts and Combat sports, both Olympic and non-Olympic, including Kendo. \u00a0The event will also include a Cultural Program that will reflect the social and cultural values of those arts and sports\u00a0and the Combat Games as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>Each Martial Art or Combat sport\u00a0will have 80 top athletes competing in the Games. \u00a0It is expected that the world best martial arts and combat sports athletes will qualify for the Combat Games. Both male and female athletes will take part.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Kendo Renmei has commenced a process to select two kendo players (one male and one female) to participate. \u00a0The announcement of\u00a0player selection will be made on March 10.<\/p>\n<p>The Games are supported by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendo-fik.org\/english-page\/english-page2\/Combat-Games-News-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\">International Kendo Federation<\/a> and the AKR.<\/p>\n<p>More information at the FIK Games\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kendo-fik.org\/english-page\/english-page2\/Combat-Games-News-Letter.html\" target=\"_blank\">website <\/a>and Combat Games\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sports.tom.com\/combatbeijing2010\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2009,\u00a0SportAccord signed an agreement with the city of Beijing, Peoples Republic of China,\u00a0to organise the first SportAccord Combat Games. \u00a0<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,36,28],"tags":[39,19,40],"class_list":["post-852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competition","category-kendo","category-news","tag-competition","tag-kendo","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=852"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1071,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/852\/revisions\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kendoaustralia.asn.au\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}