{"id":11970,"date":"2012-06-30T00:03:34","date_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/06\/olympics-pistorius-misses-out-on-games-qualification-time\/"},"modified":"2012-06-30T00:03:34","modified_gmt":"2012-06-29T22:03:34","slug":"olympics-pistorius-misses-out-on-games-qualification-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-pistorius-misses-out-on-games-qualification-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Pistorius misses out on Games qualification time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">June 29<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Double amputee Oscar Pistorius missed<br \/>\nout on Olympic qualification by 0.22 seconds in his final 400<br \/>\nmetres qualifying run at the African athletics championships in<br \/>\nPorto Novo on Friday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pistorius, who competes wearing carbon fibre prosthetic<br \/>\nblades, needed to run the A qualifying time of 45.30 seconds but<br \/>\nplaced second in the 400 final in a time of 45.52.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa&#8217;s Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee<br \/>\nhad set June 30 as the cut-off point for athletes to qualify for<br \/>\nthe Games so the African championships had been slated as<br \/>\nPistorius&#8217; last chance to ensure his place.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8221;Thank you to everyone for your support! I came 2nd in the<br \/>\nfinal of the African championships with a 45.52s. Was a rough<br \/>\nweek and I&#8217;m blessed,&#8221; Pistorius, who was chasing his dream of<br \/>\nbecoming the first double-amputee to compete on the track at an<br \/>\nOlympics, said on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old achieved the &#8216;A&#8217; qualifying time when he<br \/>\nclocked 45.20 in March but Athletics South Africa (ASA) require<br \/>\ntheir athletes to go under the time twice, with one of them<br \/>\nbeing at an international meet.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pistorius became the first amputee athlete to compete at the<br \/>\nworld championships last year in Daegu and his hopes of<br \/>\ncompeting at the Olympics may not be completely over as he could<br \/>\nstill be picked in the 4&#215;100 relay team.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ASA President James Evans told Reuters in a telephone<br \/>\ninterview that the South African relay teams would probably be<br \/>\nannounced on Monday (July 2) while playing down the significance<br \/>\nof Pistorius missing out on automatic Olympic qualification.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think the bigger story is that Oscar has won a silver<br \/>\nmedal at a continental championships,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The London Olympics start on July 27<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Jason Humphries in Durban, Editing by Tom<br \/>\nBartlett)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 29 (Reuters) &#8211; 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. 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