{"id":267,"date":"2008-05-16T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/?p=267"},"modified":"2008-05-16T07:07:07","modified_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:07:07","slug":"breaking-news-pistorius-allowed-to-compete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2008\/breaking-news-pistorius-allowed-to-compete\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: Pistorius allowed to Compete"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete in this fall’s Olympic Games if he qualifies for the South African team.\u00a0 The Star-Tribune<\/a> (really the Associated Press) reports that:<\/p>\n

The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to race against able-bodied athletes, overturning a ban imposed by the International Association of Athletics Federations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Pistorius holds the 400-meter Paralympic world record of 46.56 seconds, but that time is outside the Olympic qualifying standard of 45.55. His training has been disrupted by the appeal process.<\/p>\n

Even if Pistorius fails to get the qualifying time, South African selectors could add the University of Pretoria student to the Olympic 1,600-meter relay squad.<\/p>\n

Pistorius would not require a qualifying time and could be taken to Beijing as an alternate. Six runners can be picked for the relay squad. Pistorius also expects to compete in Beijing at the Sept. 6-17 Paralympic Games.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[tags] Olympics, Pistorius, Paralympics [\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Oscar Pistorius will be allowed to compete in this fall’s Olympic Games if he qualifies for the South African team.\u00a0 The Star-Tribune (really the Associated Press) reports that: The Court of Arbitration for Sport ruled that the 21-year-old South African is eligible to race against able-bodied athletes, overturning a ban imposed by the International Association […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4iaAv-4j","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1355,"url":"https:\/\/www.teamcrossworld.com\/running\/2009\/another-training-less-week\/","url_meta":{"origin":267,"position":0},"title":"Another Training-Less Week","author":"crossn81","date":"May 18, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Year I ran the 2008 TC 1 mile in 5:27. 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