{"id":26523,"date":"2015-10-20T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T11:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/altcardiff\/?p=26523"},"modified":"2015-10-20T11:37:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-20T11:37:29","slug":"radio-station-celebrates-sporting-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/2015\/10\/20\/radio-station-celebrates-sporting-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsung sports heroes celebrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nation Radio Sport Awards will be presented at the SSE Swalec stadium on Wednesday 4 November\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past few weeks the public have nominated the sporting figures who have made a massive contribution to the world of Welsh sport \u2013 at both grassroots and national level.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26526\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/timthumb-copy.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-26526 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/timthumb-copy-480x275.png\" alt=\"timthumb copy\" width=\"480\" height=\"275\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-26526 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/altcardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/13\/2015\/10\/timthumb-copy-480x275.png\" alt=\"timthumb copy\" width=\"480\" height=\"275\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> This is the second Nation Sport Awards. The first in the station&#8217;s seven-year history was held last year<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Host for the evening, Niall Foster from Nation Radio\u2019s Big Welsh Wake Up, said, \u201cNation Radio is Welsh and Proud and has a huge passion for Sport that backed up with a huge sporting culture in Wales.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow is the perfect opportunity to recognise the unsung sporting heroes across Wales at this special Sport Awards 2015.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those who vote will be in with the chance of joining their heroes at the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation Radio holds gala to celebrate inspirational figures<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":287,"featured_media":26526,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4569,4570,4571,4572,3654],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-26523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-active-life","tag-awards-gala","tag-cardiff-met-sports","tag-nation-radio","tag-sport-cardiff","tag-swalec-stadium"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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