{"id":13182,"date":"2012-08-05T02:06:03","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T00:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/wrapup-6-olympics-phelps-bows-out-with-gold-as-bolt-struts-in\/"},"modified":"2012-08-05T02:06:03","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T00:06:03","slug":"wrapup-6-olympics-phelps-bows-out-with-gold-as-bolt-struts-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wrapup-6-olympics-phelps-bows-out-with-gold-as-bolt-struts-in\/","title":{"rendered":"WRAPUP 6-Olympics-Phelps bows out with gold as Bolt struts in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Phelps finishes with 18th gold, record 22nd Olympic medal<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Serena wins women&#8217;s tennis gold<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; Pistorius makes Games history<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* U.S. top medals table ahead of China and Britain<\/p>\n<p> (Updates with Phelps&#8217;s last gold, British cycling record)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mike Collett-White<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The greatest swimmer in history<br \/>\nbowed out on a high with gold in the last pool race of the<br \/>\nLondon Olympics as the fastest sprinter in history strutted into<br \/>\nthe athletics stadium to begin the defence of his 100 metres<br \/>\ntitle.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Michael Phelps swam his favourite butterfly stroke in his<br \/>\nfarewell race to help the United States to gold in the 4&#215;100<br \/>\nmetres medley relay, an event they have never lost.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The medal was his 18th gold in an Olympic career stretching<br \/>\nback to Sydney in 2000, and his 22nd of any colour, four more<br \/>\nthan the previous record held by Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At the athletics stadium, South African &#8220;blade runner&#8221; Oscar<br \/>\nPistorius made history as the first double amputee to compete in<br \/>\nan Olympic athletic event, coming through his 400 metres heat.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Phelps finishes with 18th gold, record 22nd Olympic medal * Serena wins women&#8217;s tennis gold * &#8220;Blade Runner&#8221; Pistorius makes Games history * U.S. top medals table ahead of China and Britain (Updates with Phelps&#8217;s last gold, British cycling record) By Mike Collett-White LONDON, Aug 4 (Reuters) &#8211; The greatest swimmer in history bowed [&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-13182","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\/13182","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=13182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}