{"id":97840,"date":"2015-08-30T10:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T08:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/97840\/elderly-athletes-compete-at-regional-active-ageing-games\/"},"modified":"2015-08-30T10:54:51","modified_gmt":"2015-08-30T08:54:51","slug":"elderly-athletes-compete-at-regional-active-ageing-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/08\/30\/elderly-athletes-compete-at-regional-active-ageing-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Elderly athletes compete at regional Active Ageing Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Stadium recently played host to Active Ageing Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe games started on May 13 and this is the regional phase where the winners will progress to the provincials to be held on September 11 in Sedibeng,\u201d said the sport, arts, culture and recreation (SACR)\u2019s east cluster manager, Gezephi Mbata.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cFinalists from provincials will then compete at the nationals that will take place in October, the Month of the Elderly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe try and keep them active throughout the year as besides these games there is the Big Walk held every year on October 4.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThese games have been running for more than ten years and we see improvement each year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Elderly people from age 60 and above compete in a number of sporting activities including jukskei, soccer, duck walk, ring the stick and track and field athletics.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by the Gauteng department of sport, arts, culture and recreation, the Active Ageing Games, is an initiative of the provincial government aimed at encouraging a culture of healthy living in old age through active participation in sporting and recreational activities.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='91f843dbfb42aadaa87e282c9f531cfe'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitness tested at the Germiston Stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":97841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[8311,8313,8312,1334,1106,979,969,1793,6247,6603,6040,6604,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-97840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-active-ageing-games","tag-active-ageing-games-2015","tag-big-walk","tag-elderly","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-stadium","tag-local-sport-news","tag-local-sport-stories","tag-local-sports-news","tag-local-sports-stories","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["Active Ageing Games","Active Ageing Games 2015","Big Walk","elderly.","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston Stadium","local sport news","Local sport stories","Local Sports News","Local sports stories","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}