{"id":13092,"date":"2012-08-02T13:55:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T11:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-olympics-rowing-south-africa-grab-lightweight-four-gold\/"},"modified":"2012-08-02T13:55:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-02T11:55:17","slug":"update-1-olympics-rowing-south-africa-grab-lightweight-four-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-olympics-rowing-south-africa-grab-lightweight-four-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Olympics-Rowing-South Africa grab lightweight four gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds details)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">DORNEY, England<\/span> Aug 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa powered to<br \/>\nvictory in the men&#8217;s lightweight four final on Thursday, holding<br \/>\noff the favourites Britain and Denmark in a thrilling sprint for<br \/>\nthe line to win the country&#8217;s first Olympic rowing title.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The victory by about a foot with a breathtaking late burst<br \/>\ndenied Britain a third gold medal of the Games and a win for<br \/>\nbrothers Peter and Richard Chambers from Northern Ireland.<br \/>\nBritain finished second with Denmark in third.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Denmark led the race from the start before South Africa and<br \/>\nBritain pulled level. In a final sprint for the line in front of<br \/>\n25,000 roaring fans, the South Africans just got their timing<br \/>\nright before collapsing in their boat and looking to the big<br \/>\nscreens to see whether they had won.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa triumphed in a time of six minutes 02:84, from<br \/>\nBritain a quarter of a second back. Denmark were a further 0.07<br \/>\nof a second behind the British.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Kate Holton, editing by Matt Falloon)<\/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>(Adds details) DORNEY, England Aug 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa powered to victory in the men&#8217;s lightweight four final on Thursday, holding off the favourites Britain and Denmark in a thrilling sprint for the line to win the country&#8217;s first Olympic rowing title. The victory by about a foot with a breathtaking late burst denied [&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-13092","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\/13092","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=13092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13092\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}