{"id":13070,"date":"2012-08-02T01:52:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-01T23:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-olympics-swimming-adrian-wins-100m-freestyle-gold\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T01:52:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-01T23:52:14","slug":"update-1-olympics-swimming-adrian-wins-100m-freestyle-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-olympics-swimming-adrian-wins-100m-freestyle-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Olympics-Swimming-Adrian wins 100m freestyle gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON<\/span> Aug 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Nathan Adrian won the 100 metres<br \/>\nfreestyle final at the London Olympics on Wednesday to become<br \/>\nthe first American to win gold in the blue-riband sprint for<br \/>\nnearly a quarter of a century.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a desperate finish, Adrian got his fingers on the wall<br \/>\n0.01 seconds, the smallest margin in Olympic swimming, ahead of<br \/>\nAustralian world champion James Magnussen.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nathan stopped the clock at 47.52 seconds with Magnussen<br \/>\nsecond in 47.53. Canada&#8217;s Brent Hayden was third in 47.80.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Brazil&#8217;s Cesar Cielo, the defending champion and reigning<br \/>\nworld record holder, was sixth in the race to decide the fastest<br \/>\nman on water.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the United States has been the dominant power in<br \/>\nOlympic swimming, the last American man to win the 100 freestyle<br \/>\ngold was Matt Biondi at Seoul in 1988.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Julian Linden; Editing by Greg Stutchbury)<\/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>LONDON Aug 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Nathan Adrian won the 100 metres freestyle final at the London Olympics on Wednesday to become the first American to win gold in the blue-riband sprint for nearly a quarter of a century. In a desperate finish, Adrian got his fingers on the wall 0.01 seconds, the smallest margin in [&hellip;]<\/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-13070","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\/13070","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=13070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}