{"id":14345,"date":"2012-09-07T03:52:31","date_gmt":"2012-09-07T01:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/refile-update-2-paralympics-pistorius-gracious-after-100m-defeat-to-peacock\/"},"modified":"2012-09-07T03:52:31","modified_gmt":"2012-09-07T01:52:31","slug":"refile-update-2-paralympics-pistorius-gracious-after-100m-defeat-to-peacock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/refile-update-2-paralympics-pistorius-gracious-after-100m-defeat-to-peacock\/","title":{"rendered":"REFILE-UPDATE 2-Paralympics-Pistorius gracious after 100m defeat to Peacock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Fixes spelling of gracious in headline and para 13)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Toby Davis<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">LONDON, Sept 6<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; There was more disappointment at<br \/>\nthe Paralympics for South Africa&#8217;s Oscar Pistorius after he was<br \/>\nleft trailing in the wake of Britain&#8217;s Jonnie Peacock in the<br \/>\nmen&#8217;s 100m final on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pistorius, who courted controversy last week when he<br \/>\ncomplained that his opponent&#8217;s blades were too long after losing<br \/>\nin the 200m final, could only finish fourth behind Peacock,<br \/>\nAmerican Richard Browne and South Africa&#8217;s Arnu Fourie.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Peacock stormed out of the blocks and finished five<br \/>\nhundredths of a second outside the world record in a time of<br \/>\n10.90.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was the first time in the Paralympics that anyone had run<br \/>\nunder 11 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I didn&#8217;t think it was quite going to be that crazy,&#8221;<br \/>\nPeacock told Britain&#8217;s Channel Four.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was thinking who is going to get the biggest cheer Oscar<br \/>\nor me. This time I actually knew I could push. My drive phase<br \/>\nwas probably the best it has ever been in the race. It was<br \/>\ncrazy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I should have run quicker than that. I should be going<br \/>\nabout 3\/10ths faster than that. I got up to 60-70 metres and I<br \/>\nthought I can win this.&#8221;<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Fixes spelling of gracious in headline and para 13) By Toby Davis LONDON, Sept 6 (Reuters) &#8211; There was more disappointment at the Paralympics for South Africa&#8217;s Oscar Pistorius after he was left trailing in the wake of Britain&#8217;s Jonnie Peacock in the men&#8217;s 100m final on Thursday. Pistorius, who courted controversy last week when [&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-14345","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\/14345","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=14345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}