{"id":14170,"date":"2012-09-02T03:34:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/paralympics-pistorius-smashes-200m-world-record-in-london-opener\/"},"modified":"2012-09-02T03:34:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T01:34:18","slug":"paralympics-pistorius-smashes-200m-world-record-in-london-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/paralympics-pistorius-smashes-200m-world-record-in-london-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympics-Pistorius smashes 200m world record in London opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, Sept 1<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Oscar Pistorius<br \/>\nsmashed the 200 metres T44 world record in his heat as he made<br \/>\nhis London 2012 Paralympics debut on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pistorius ran 21.30, shaving more than half a second off the<br \/>\nprevious record set by Brazilian Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira<br \/>\nin an earlier heat.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old, who is dubbed the &#8216;Blade Runner&#8217;, is<br \/>\ndefending the 100m, 200m and 400m Olympic titles he won in<br \/>\nBeijing four years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pistorius, who wears carbon fibre prosthetic blades after<br \/>\nhe was born without a fibula in both legs, became the first<br \/>\ndouble amputee to run in the Olympics, where he made the 400<br \/>\nmetres semi-finals. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Toby Davis; editing by Pritha Sarkar)<\/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, Sept 1 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Oscar Pistorius smashed the 200 metres T44 world record in his heat as he made his London 2012 Paralympics debut on Saturday. Pistorius ran 21.30, shaving more than half a second off the previous record set by Brazilian Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira in an earlier heat. The 25-year-old, [&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-14170","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\/14170","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=14170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}