{"id":21579,"date":"2013-08-01T00:33:54","date_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/le-clos-wins-final-at-swimming-championships\/"},"modified":"2013-08-01T00:33:54","modified_gmt":"2013-07-31T22:33:54","slug":"le-clos-wins-final-at-swimming-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/le-clos-wins-final-at-swimming-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Clos wins final at swimming championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=11805\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11805\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-11805 \" alt=\"Chad Le Clos held on for gold in a tough race. Photo: Express\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fbbd7_leclos-418845.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"210\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chad Le Clos held on for gold in a tough race. Photo: Express<\/p>\n<p>The South African who upstaged Michael Phelps at the Olympics last summer, added the world title to his gold in London after winning in a team of 1min 54.3 seconds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/le-clos-is-missing-phelps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Le Clos<\/a> tried to attack from the off, but struggled to pull away from Pawel Korzeniowski, who was the oldest swimmer in the field.<\/p>\n<p>The South African was checking to see where the rest of the field was rather than concentrating on his swim which nearly proved costly.<\/p>\n<p>Korzeniowski and Le Clos were nearly matching each other stroke to stroke but Le Clos pipped the Pole to the wall.<\/p>\n<p>China\u2019s Wu Peng claimed bronze. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Express<\/a><\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/phelps-and-le-clos-swim-with-sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fbbd7_188075491_80_803.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/phelps-and-le-clos-swim-with-sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phelps and le Clos swim with sharks<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zwemza.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/31\/le-clos-will-miss-phelps-in-200m-butterfly\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fbbd7_189703841_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/zwemza.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/31\/le-clos-will-miss-phelps-in-200m-butterfly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Le Clos will miss Phelps in 200m butterfly<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/le-clos-aims-for-gold-in-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/fbbd7_187442745_80_803.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/le-clos-aims-for-gold-in-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\">Le Clos aims for gold in Barcelona<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/b1610_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chad Le Clos held on for gold in a tough race. Photo: Express The South African who upstaged Michael Phelps at the Olympics last summer, added the world title to his gold in London after winning in a team of 1min 54.3 seconds. Le Clos tried to attack from the off, but struggled to pull [&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-21579","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\/21579","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=21579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21579\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}