{"id":116187,"date":"2018-09-04T10:30:32","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:30:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=116187"},"modified":"2018-09-04T10:30:32","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T14:30:32","slug":"gabriel-mercedes-makes-a-career-as-an-international-taekwondo-tutor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/gabriel-mercedes-makes-a-career-as-an-international-taekwondo-tutor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gabriel Mercedes makes a career as an international taekwondo tutor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_116143\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116143\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-116143\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/Gabriel-Mercedes-El-Recorte-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-116143\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Mercedes \/ El Recorte<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Dominican Olympic medalist in taekwondo, Gabriel Mercedes, has a full schedule sharing his secret training tips she used to reach the top in his sport. Mercedes is widely recognized as one of the best taekwondo athletes in the world. Locally, he is in charge of welfare, recreation and sports for human development of the National Police.<\/p>\n<p>Diario Libre highlights how in August-September he has given courses in Athens, Greece (28-29 August 2018), and then he has training sessions programmed for Rabat, Morocco; Brussels, Belgium; Los Angeles, California; and Barranquilla, Colombia in September.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Diario Libre, he says he would like to coach local athletes but has yet to receive the backing of the local taekwondo federation officers. \u201cUnfortunately it is a reality that not even an Olympian could overcome and it is seen in the case of Felix Sanchez who had to create a parallel project because the federation did not open space in their structure,\u201d said the champ from Monte Plata who competed in the Athens, Beijing and London Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>He won a silver medal in the \u2013 58 kg class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after tying with Guillermo P\u00e9rez of Mexico, but losing by a judge&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>He is also a two-time gold medal winner in the Pan American Games of 2007 Rio de Janeiro, 2011 Guadalajara and bronze in 2003 Santo Domingo. He is a gold medal winner in the Central American and Caribbean Games of San Salvador 20002 and Mayaguez 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the story in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/deportes\/olimpismo\/mercedes-ahora-sobresale-como-tutor-internacional-PC10654586\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n<p>4 September 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican Olympic medalist in taekwondo, Gabriel Mercedes, has a full schedule sharing his secret training tips she used to reach the top in his sport. Mercedes is widely recognized as one of the best taekwondo athletes in the world. Locally, he is in charge of welfare, recreation and sports for human development of the National &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/09\/04\/gabriel-mercedes-makes-a-career-as-an-international-taekwondo-tutor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116187"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116187\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}