{"id":502,"date":"2023-10-03T12:48:28","date_gmt":"2023-10-03T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=358840"},"modified":"2023-10-03T12:50:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T07:20:36","slug":"asian-games-2023-chinese-yanni-wu-apologizes-to-indian-jyothi-yarraji-amid-false-start-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/asian-games-2023-chinese-yanni-wu-apologizes-to-indian-jyothi-yarraji-amid-false-start-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2023: Chinese Yanni Wu apologizes to Indian Jyothi Yarraji amid false start controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #252525\">India\u2019s Jyothi Yarraji received a handshake apology from Chinese athlete Yanni Wu after the huge false start controversy in the 100m hurdles final. Yanni Wu had a false start in lane 4, but the officials disqualified the Indian athlete instead, which was shocking for everyone.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">After a long discussion and protest over the decision, the officials went through replays, coming to a conclusion by reinstating Jyothi and disqualifying Wu. Jyothi, who was behind Wu, got promoted to second place, claiming a silver for India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">Wu accepted her mistake and apologized to all the fellow competitors, especially Indian silver medalist Jyothi Yarraji.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">\u201cTo the Indian player Jyothi Yarraji, who was next to me, there was a misjudgement, and I\u2019m really sorry.\u201d The athlete posted on the Chinese social media website Weibo.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Jyothi Yarraji received a handshake apology from Chinese athlete Yanni Wu after the huge false start controversy in the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":23641,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3680],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-asian-games-2023"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}