{"id":346452,"date":"2025-08-15T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346452\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T11:52:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T11:52:12","slug":"the-world-transplant-games-show-that-anything-is-possible-nis-transplanted-athletes-and-living-donors-are-off-to-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/346452\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018The World Transplant Games show that anything is possible\u2019: NI\u2019s transplanted athletes and living donors are off to Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom4 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u200b<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Northern Ireland's WTG team\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5f8190e6-8830-4259-b3c8-4d85e4435267.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_caption1 beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_secondary beltel-66f0fec7_regular beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_marginleft0 beltel-1d70522a_marginright0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop3 beltel-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Northern Ireland&#8217;s WTG team<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Tomorrow, the 25th World Transplant Games (WTG) will launch in Dresden \u2014 and Northern Ireland athletes will be competing. First held in Portsmouth in 1978, the Games are the world\u2019s largest awareness event for the gift of life, and something that\u2019s close to the hearts of donor families, living donors, supporters and families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"beltel-ebe0ecc6_root beltel-ebe0ecc6_paragraph beltel-300db776_none beltel-91174671_primary beltel-1d70522a_marginbottom0 beltel-1d70522a_margintop0 beltel-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">This will be the first time the Games will be held in Germany \u2014 they cater for up to 2,500 participants from up to 60 nations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u200b Northern Ireland&#8217;s WTG team Tomorrow, the 25th World Transplant Games (WTG) will launch in Dresden \u2014 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[16264,1824,1144,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-346452","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-aine-toner","9":"tag-germany","10":"tag-northern-ireland","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115032643636090023","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}