{"id":18073,"date":"2013-02-15T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-15T11:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/olympic-swimmer-stays-dry-at-dusi\/"},"modified":"2013-02-15T13:42:52","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T11:42:52","slug":"olympic-swimmer-stays-dry-at-dusi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympic-swimmer-stays-dry-at-dusi\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic swimmer stays dry at Dusi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=1962\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1962\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1962\" alt=\"Deaf Olympic swimmer Terence Parkin with his partner Wayne Riddin after a tough hot first stage of The Unlimited Dusi.Photo: Darren Goddard\/Gameplan Media\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/4bad0_Dusi-Terence-Parkin-LR.jpg\" width=\"302\" height=\"276\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Deaf Olympic swimmer Terence Parkin with his partner Wayne Riddin after a tough hot first stage of The Unlimited Dusi. Photo: Darren Goddard\/Gameplan Media<\/p>\n<p>Swimming star Terence Parkin dug deep and finished the first stage of the Unlimited Dusi Canoe Marathon with his partner Wayne Riddin, who was struggling with a calf strain picked up in last weekend\u2019s Midmar Mile.<\/p>\n<p>The deaf Olympic swimmer didn\u2019t need his pool prowess once during the 42km first stage, as he and Riddin, the boss of the Midmar Mile, navigated the medium-low level uMsindusi river comfortably enough, struggling more with the 36 degree heat than the rapids.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe water was good. All the rapids that we wanted to shoot were clear. But that last hour with the heat!\u201d said Riddin.<\/p>\n<p>The pair had a nervy start as Parkin arrived at Camps Drift very late.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was almost ready to get out my single (K1), which I wasn\u2019t keen on doing, but I don\u2019t think I would have done a time like this if it wasn\u2019t for him. A time of four hours and 20 minutes is not bad for my level of fitness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair have developed a special understanding in the boat that transcends Parkin\u2019s inability to hear.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t communicate with Terence. He just supports me at the back,\u201d said Riddin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI did the race with someone I didn\u2019t know last year and we swam a lot, it was frustrating,\u201d said Parkin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWayne and I work much better together. I can\u2019t communicate with him so I try to provide the power from the back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deaf Olympic swimmer Terence Parkin with his partner Wayne Riddin after a tough hot first stage of The Unlimited Dusi. Photo: Darren Goddard\/Gameplan Media Swimming star Terence Parkin dug deep and finished the first stage of the Unlimited Dusi Canoe Marathon with his partner Wayne Riddin, who was struggling with a calf strain picked up [&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":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-18073","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","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\/18073","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=18073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}