{"id":9375,"date":"2012-03-28T03:35:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T01:35:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/olympics-pistorius-confident-of-qualifying-for-london-400-metres\/"},"modified":"2012-03-28T03:35:52","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T01:35:52","slug":"olympics-pistorius-confident-of-qualifying-for-london-400-metres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/olympics-pistorius-confident-of-qualifying-for-london-400-metres\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympics-Pistorius confident of qualifying for London 400 metres"},"content":{"rendered":"

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By Jason Humphries<\/span><\/p>\n

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DURBAN, March 27<\/span> (Reuters) – Double amputee Oscar Pistorius
\nsays he is confident of qualifying to run the 400 metres at the
\nLondon Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

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“I’ve never been much of an optimist; I’m a realist and I’m
\nrealistic in knowing what I have to do and I’m confident in
\nknowing that I can achieve that,” the South African told
\nreporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

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“In athletics it is not about working hard and achieving a
\ngoal, it’s about working hard every single day and we’ve still
\ngot 122 days until the Games and every day has been planned and
\ncalculated.”<\/p>\n

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Pistorius, who uses carbon fibre prosthetic running blades,
\nran a 45.20-second 400 metre race on March 17 in South Africa to
\ndip under the qualification time of 45.30. However, he still
\nneeds to run the qualifying time in an international meeting
\nbefore he will be considered for South Africa’s Olympic team.<\/p>\n

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Last year, Pistorius became the first amputee to compete at
\nthe athletics world championships when he ran in Daegu, South
\nKorea, though he failed to qualify for the 400 final.<\/p>\n

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If he qualifies for London, he would be the first amputee
\nathlete to compete at the Olympics.<\/p>\n

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“It’s nice being able to run the times, or close to the
\ntimes, that you need for the 400m now but there is a long season
\nahead of us still,” he said.<\/p>\n

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“Hopefully I will start the European season off with the
\nsame confidence that I have now, and between now and then get
\nsome proper training done.”
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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