{"id":115983,"date":"2024-10-19T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115983"},"modified":"2024-10-19T15:15:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-19T08:15:42","slug":"why-mario-and-sonic-arent-at-the-paris-olympics-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115983","title":{"rendered":"Why Mario and Sonic aren&#8217;t at the Paris Olympics | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/56hUqZ9jGEo?autoplay=1&#038;cc_load_policy=1&#038;modestbranding=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>They&#8217;re probably the most noticeable absentees from the Paris Olympics &#8211; yes, we&#8217;re talking about Mario and Sonic.<\/p>\n<p>The duo and their friends (and foes) have been a feature of every Olympic Games since Beijing in 2008 with their very own video game, dedicated to the event.<\/p>\n<p>But fans were stunned when executive producer of the franchise, Lee Cocker, revealed on X (formerly Twitter) that Mario and Sonic at Paris 2024 was never on the cards.<\/p>\n<p>BBC Newsbeat&#8217;s Peter Gillibrand sat down with Lee to find out why.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe here: http:\/\/bit.ly\/1rbfUog<\/p>\n<p>For more news, analysis and features visit: www.bbc.com\/news <\/p>\n<p>#MarioAndSonic #Olympics #Paris2024 #BBCNews<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=56hUqZ9jGEo\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They&#8217;re probably the most noticeable absentees from the Paris Olympics &#8211; yes, we&#8217;re talking about Mario and Sonic. The duo and their friends (and foes) have been a feature of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=115983\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}