{"id":2240,"date":"2021-07-22T10:04:37","date_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/?p=2240"},"modified":"2021-07-22T10:04:37","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T17:04:37","slug":"nfb-para-olympic-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/22\/nfb-para-olympic-statement\/","title":{"rendered":"NFB Para olympic statement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">National Federation of the Blind logo and tagline live the life you want<br>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE<br>National Federation of the Blind Comments on Paralympic Withdrawal of Becca Meyers<br>Baltimore, Maryland (July 22, 2021): Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, made the following comments about the recent withdrawal of Paralympic swimmer Becca Meyers from the Tokyo games:<br>\u201cThe National Federation of the Blind is deeply disappointed by what we have heard about the Paralympic withdrawal of Becca Meyers, a gold-medal swimmer who is deafblind. It is disturbing, and ironic, that this outstanding athlete is experiencing barriers to participation in a sporting event specifically intended to be a showcase for the capacity and skill of disabled athletes. As an organization of blind and deafblind members, we affirm that individuals are generally the best judges of their accommodation needs. We believe that the United States Olympic and Paralympic Committee (USOPC), in failing to consider Ms. Meyers\u2019s own assessment of her needs, took away her individual dignity and autonomy. We therefore condemn the committee\u2019s decision. We stand by Ms. Meyers, and in the future we urge the USOPC to call upon the expertise of our organization to better serve blind and deafblind athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Federation of the Blind logo and tagline live the life you wantFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASENational Federation of the Blind Comments on Paralympic Withdrawal of Becca MeyersBaltimore, Maryland (July 22, 2021): Mark Riccobono, President of the National Federation of the Blind, made the following comments about the recent withdrawal of Paralympic swimmer Becca Meyers from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2241,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2240\/revisions\/2241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/katechamberlin.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}