{"id":2659,"date":"2012-07-04T09:48:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T09:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/double-leg-amputee-to-make-history-at-olympics\/"},"modified":"2012-07-04T09:38:48","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T09:38:48","slug":"double-leg-amputee-to-make-history-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/double-leg-amputee-to-make-history-at-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Double Leg Amputee to Make History at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1537 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cd.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Oscar Pistorius will be the first double amputee runner at the Olympic Games after being picked by South Africa for the 400m at London 2012.}}<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius was born in Johannesburg and had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old because of a congenital condition that meant he was born without lower leg bones.<\/p>\n<p>The 25-year-old has also been picked for the 4x400m relay squad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is truly one of the proudest days of my life,&#8221; said Pistorius, who will also compete in the Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a real honour and I am so pleased that years of hard work, determination and sacrifice have all come together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pistorius appeared to have missed the chance of competing in the individual 400m after he narrowly failed to clock the &#8216;A&#8217; standard time for a second time as required by South Africa&#8217;s Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (Sascoc).<\/p>\n<p>But his inclusion in the relay team opened up his chance to also race in the individual event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As I have said many times before, we are not taking passengers to London,&#8221; said Sascoc president Gideon Sam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone has met selection criteria and are genuine Olympic Games material, either now or for 2016. I wish them all the best.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Oscar Pistorius will be the first double amputee runner at the Olympic Games after being picked by South Africa for the 400m at London 2012.}} Pistorius was born in Johannesburg and had both legs amputated below the knee when he was 11 months old because of a congenital condition that meant he was born without [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2659"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}