{"id":4267,"date":"2023-02-25T12:58:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T08:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/?p=4267"},"modified":"2023-03-24T13:02:21","modified_gmt":"2023-03-24T09:02:21","slug":"marketing-junior-takes-strongman-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/marketing-junior-takes-strongman-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Marketing junior takes strongman title"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Jad Omar<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Marketing junior Khalifa Pandeli won the strongman competition when the American University of Sharjah hosted its campus Olympics program Feb. 22-23.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strongman competition consisted of deadlift, overhead press, and tire flip segments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandeli said he started bodybuilding in 2018, and powerlifting last October.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI love powerlifting, and this [the AUS Olympics] was the closest thing to it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pandeli, who competed in the under-70 kg weight class, said that lifting has impacted his life positively, making him more confident.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He added that sports at AUS increase competition between students, have long term health benefits, and put \u201ceveryone in a good space mentally.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jad Omar UNIVERSITY CITY, SHARJAH \u2013 Marketing junior Khalifa Pandeli won the strongman competition when the American University of Sharjah hosted its campus Olympics program Feb. 22-23. The strongman competition consisted of deadlift, overhead press, and tire flip segments. Pandeli said he started bodybuilding in 2018, and powerlifting last October.&nbsp; \u201cI love powerlifting, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4268,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[33,35,39,26],"class_list":{"0":"post-4267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"tag-aus","9":"tag-clubs","10":"tag-sba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mcmmediahub.aus.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}