{"id":47989,"date":"2021-03-21T20:18:29","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T21:18:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=47989"},"modified":"2021-03-22T03:05:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T03:05:23","slug":"olympic-surfing-hopeful-killed-by-lightning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=47989","title":{"rendered":"Olympic surfing hopeful killed by lightning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A surfer who had hopes of qualifying for the <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/news\/tokyo-2020\" title=\"Olympics \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Olympics <\/a>has been killed by lightning on a beach in El Salvador, national sporting officials said Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Katherine Diaz Hernandez, 22, was practising near her home at the Pacific coast beach of El Tunco when she was hit by lightning on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the government&#x27;s Salvadoran Sports Institute, Yamil Bukele, posted a message expressing condolences to her family.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"e7bc96dc-4c45-4790-b2de-f5b9b328cbc7\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/e7bc96dc-4c45-4790-b2de-f5b9b328cbc7\" alt=\"Katherine Diaz Hernandez\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She had been training a global tournament, set to be held in El Salvador, that serves as a qualifying event for this year&#x27;s Summer Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Diaz also worked as a chef and had opened her own business in El Tunco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ISAsurfing\/status\/1373458922481184772\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/ISAsurfing\/status\/1373458922481184772<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?%20%20client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%20%20%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the \n\nbreaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of \n\nSports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here! \" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>A surfer who had hopes of qualifying for the Olympics has been killed by lightning on a beach in El Salvador, national sporting officials said <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=47989\" title=\"Olympic surfing hopeful killed by lightning\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47989"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47991,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47989\/revisions\/47991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}