{"id":12113,"date":"2012-07-05T00:13:42","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/olympics-s-africas-pistorius-to-compete-in-400-metres-in-london\/"},"modified":"2012-07-05T00:13:42","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T22:13:42","slug":"olympics-s-africas-pistorius-to-compete-in-400-metres-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-s-africas-pistorius-to-compete-in-400-metres-in-london\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-S.Africa’s Pistorius to compete in 400 metres in London"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JOHANNESBURG, July 4<\/span> (Reuters) – Double amputee Oscar
\nPistorius will compete in the individual 400 metres and the
\n4×400 relay team for South Africa at the London Olympics, a
\nmember of the country’s Olympic federation said on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Tubby Reddy, chief executive of South Africa’s Sports
\nConfederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc), said Pistorius’s
\ninclusion in the relay team meant he will also be able to take
\npart in the 400m individual race.<\/p>\n

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“He was named in the Olympic team (in the 4×400 relay) and
\nthen the question arose as to whether he was allowed to run the
\n400 and he can because he is part of the team,” Reddy told
\nReuters in a telephone interview.<\/p>\n

(Editing by Ken Ferris)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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