{"id":11969,"date":"2012-06-30T00:03:33","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/update-1-olympics-pistorius-misses-out-on-games-qualification-time\/"},"modified":"2012-06-30T00:03:33","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:03:33","slug":"update-1-olympics-pistorius-misses-out-on-games-qualification-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-olympics-pistorius-misses-out-on-games-qualification-time\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Olympics-Pistorius misses out on Games qualification time"},"content":{"rendered":"

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(Adds Pistorius statement)<\/span><\/p>\n

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June 29<\/span> (Reuters) – Double amputee Oscar Pistorius missed
\nout on Olympic qualification by 0.22 seconds in his final 400
\nmetres qualifying run at the African athletics championships in
\nPorto Novo on Friday.<\/p>\n

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Pistorius, who competes wearing carbon fibre prosthetic
\nblades, needed to run the A qualifying time of 45.30 seconds but
\nplaced second in the 400 final in a time of 45.52.<\/p>\n

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South Africa’s Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee
\nhad set June 30 as the cut-off point for athletes to qualify for
\nthe Games so the African championships had been slated as
\nPistorius’ last chance to ensure his place.<\/p>\n

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“My race today felt good and I’m pleased to have won the
\nsilver medal at the African Championships,” Pistorious said in a
\nstatement.<\/p>\n

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“I am obviously disappointed that my time was just outside
\nof the Olympic qualification time by two tenths of a second, I
\nhad felt very strong coming into this competition as my fitness
\nand speed has been continually improving.<\/p>\n

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“I was in good shape to set the time and believe my speed
\nwill only increase over the next few weeks. I had a great early
\nstart to the season, setting the Olympic qualification time and
\nI am hoping that there is still the opportunity for me to be
\nselected to run for South Africa in the 4x400m relay.<\/p>\n

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“I am also extremely excited about the Paralympic Games in
\nLondon and a big focus for me will be defending my three titles
\nas well as being part of the South African team competing for a
\nworld record in the 4x100m relay.”<\/p>\n

<\/span><\/p>\n

Pistorius was chasing his dream of becoming the first
\ndouble-amputee to compete on the track at an Olympics.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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(Adds Pistorius statement) June 29 (Reuters) – Double amputee Oscar Pistorius missed out on Olympic qualification by 0.22 seconds in his final 400 metres qualifying run at the African athletics championships in Porto Novo on Friday. Pistorius, who competes wearing carbon fibre prosthetic blades, needed to run the A qualifying time of 45.30 seconds but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-11969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}