{"id":42648,"date":"2026-06-12T14:57:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/42648\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T14:57:44","slug":"escaping-kabul-ride-or-die-france-24-english","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/42648\/","title":{"rendered":"Escaping Kabul: ride or die \u2022 FRANCE 24 English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Escaping Kabul: ride or die \u2022 FRANCE 24 English\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CJBGBZX13rU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nEscaping Kabul: ride or die \u2022 FRANCE 24 English<br \/>\n<br \/>\nWhen the Taliban took power, Afghanistan&#8217;s women cyclists went from competing internationally to fearing for their lives overnight. \ud83d\udeb5\u200d\u2640\ufe0f\u00a0An unprecedented plan was put in place to smuggle the professional cyclists out of the country in complete secrecy. Reporters Matteo Born and Alain Rimbert look back at this incredible operation.\u00a0<br \/>\n#Kabul #Afghanistan #Taliban<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd14 Subscribe to France 24 now: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTen<br \/>\n\ud83d\udd34 LIVE &#8211; Watch FRANCE 24 English 24\/7 here: https:\/\/f24.my\/YTliveEN<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udf0d Read the latest International News and Top Stories: https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/<\/p>\n<p>Like us on Facebook: https:\/\/f24.my\/FBen<br \/>\nFollow us on X: https:\/\/f24.my\/Xen<br \/>\nBluesky: https:\/\/f24.my\/BSen and Threads: https:\/\/f24.my\/THen<br \/>\nBrowse the news in pictures on Instagram: https:\/\/f24.my\/IGen<br \/>\nDiscover our TikTok videos: https:\/\/f24.my\/TKen<br \/>\nGet the latest top stories on Telegram: https:\/\/f24.my\/TGen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Escaping Kabul: ride or die \u2022 FRANCE 24 English When the Taliban took power, Afghanistan&#8217;s women cyclists went&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[1646,17705,40984,15489,22,23,20,21,30036,18355],"class_list":["post-42648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-france24","tag-afghanistan","tag-bikes","tag-cyclists","tag-escape","tag-france-24","tag-france-24-english","tag-france24","tag-france24-english","tag-kabul","tag-taliban"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116737753903278705","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}