{"id":3895,"date":"2012-08-08T00:27:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2012-08-08T00:27:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T00:27:44","slug":"brazil-olympics-focus-sarah-menezes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazil-olympics-focus-sarah-menezes\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Olympics Focus: Sarah Menezes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our series on Brazilian <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazil-olympics-focus-maurren-maggi\/\">Olympic<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazil-olympics-focus-cesar-cielo-filho\/\">athletes<\/a>, today we take a look at Sarah Menezes, who won gold in judo at the London Games. In doing so, she became the first Brazilian woman to win gold in this sport.<\/p>\n<p>Originally from Teresina in Piau\u00ed state, Sarah won the junior world championships for judo in 2008 and 2009. Now age 22, she participated in her second Olympics and brought home the gold.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWJ-zO20pjQ\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TWJ-zO20pjQ<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ib57VoXC-Cw\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ib57VoXC-Cw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Before heading to London, Sarah also helped launch a <a href=\"http:\/\/globoesporte.globo.com\/olimpiadas\/noticia\/2012\/08\/sarah-inicia-projeto-e-se-espelha-em-canto-quero-outras-sarahs-no-futuro.html\" target=\"_blank\">project<\/a> in her hometown to inspire other &#8220;Sarahs&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><em>Sarah Menezes e Expedito Falc\u00e3o foram para Londres conquistar a primeira medalha de ouro de uma judoca brasileira, mas antes de partirem deram in\u00edcio a um projeto social sem fazer muito alarde. Em junho, inauguraram o &#8220;Supera\u00e7\u00e3o&#8221; em Teresina, no centro de treinamento que leva o nome da campe\u00e3 ol\u00edmpica. A paix\u00e3o pelas crian\u00e7as levou t\u00e9cnico e pupila a buscar uma forma de disseminar o esporte no Piau\u00ed. Um pouco mais ao sul do pa\u00eds, no Rio de Janeiro, a iniciativa de sucesso do ex-judoca e hoje apresentador Fl\u00e1vio Canto serve como espelho para a dupla: o &#8220;Rea\u00e7\u00e3o&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Com 1.200 alunos e cinco polos (Rocinha, Pequena Cruzada, Tubiacanga e Cidade de Deus I e II), o &#8220;Rea\u00e7\u00e3o&#8221; j\u00e1 colhe seus primeiros frutos e viu Rafaela Silva se classificar para os Jogos de Londres 2012. Companheira de Sarah, Rafaela foi revelada pelo projeto e hoje integra a sele\u00e7\u00e3o brasileira. Da mesma forma, a piauiense quer ajudar a encontrar outras &#8220;Sarahs&#8221; espalhadas pelo estado. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/globoesporte.globo.com\/olimpiadas\/noticia\/2012\/08\/sarah-inicia-projeto-e-se-espelha-em-canto-quero-outras-sarahs-no-futuro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing with our series on Brazilian Olympic athletes, today we take a look at Sarah Menezes, who won gold in judo at the London Games. In doing so, she became the first Brazilian woman to win gold in this sport. Originally from Teresina in Piau\u00ed state, Sarah won the junior world championships for judo in&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/brazil-olympics-focus-sarah-menezes\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":41,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[1846],"tags":[109594],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-brazilian-profile","tag-judo"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3900,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/portuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}