{"id":59112,"date":"2020-10-07T08:54:02","date_gmt":"2020-10-07T08:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i-believe.org\/?p=59112"},"modified":"2020-10-07T08:54:02","modified_gmt":"2020-10-07T08:54:02","slug":"this-greek-athlete-fulfilled-the-dream-of-a-disabled-woman-by-carrying-her-up-mount-olympus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/2020\/10\/07\/this-greek-athlete-fulfilled-the-dream-of-a-disabled-woman-by-carrying-her-up-mount-olympus\/","title":{"rendered":"This Greek athlete fulfilled the dream of a disabled woman by carrying her up Mount Olympus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eleftheria Tosiou is a 22-year old disabled woman who dreamed of experiencing the Mount Olympus summit some day &#8211; but she knew that the chances of that dream getting realized were slim. That is until she befriended long-distance runner Marios Giannakou who decided to carry her to\u00a0the highest peak in Greece in a specially modified backpack!<\/p>\n<p>Marios Giannakou has a long track record of taking on challenges: He\u2019s trekked 168 miles across the Al Marmoum Desert and he also took first place in a frigid 93-mile cross-country race in Antarctica.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his latest endeavor, he\u2019d already successfully taken in the view from atop Mount Olympus\u2019 highest peak 50 times. So when he came to know of Tosiou&#8217;s dream,\u00a0he was more than ready to rise to the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, all international races, the medals and the distinctions so far, mean little compared to that goal,\u201d he told the\u00a0Greek Reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/greek-athlete-carries-disabled-woman-up-mount-olympus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/www.goodnewsnetwork.org\/greek-athlete-carries-disabled-woman-up-mount-olympus\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eleftheria Tosiou is a 22-year old disabled woman who dreamed of experiencing the Mount Olympus summit some day &#8211; but she knew that the chances of that dream getting realized were slim. That is until she befriended long-distance runner Marios Giannakou who decided to carry her to\u00a0the highest peak in Greece in a specially modified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-believe.org\/gbrifoundation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}