{"id":177607,"date":"2024-07-31T02:34:20","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T00:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-martinenghi-pips-peaty-in-thriller-as-biles-shines-on-olympic-return\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T02:34:20","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T00:34:20","slug":"namibia-martinenghi-pips-peaty-in-thriller-as-biles-shines-on-olympic-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-martinenghi-pips-peaty-in-thriller-as-biles-shines-on-olympic-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Martinenghi Pips Peaty in Thriller As Biles Shines On Olympic Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\"><em>Italy&#8217;s Nicolo Martinenghi stunned Adam Peaty to win a nail-biting men&#8217;s 100m breaststroke final on Sunday while Simone Biles dazzled a star-studded crowd on her return to the Olympic stage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Also on day two of the Paris Games, Rafael Nadal shrugged off injury concerns to set up a second-round showdown at Roland Garros against great rival Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">After US gymnastics superstar Biles wowed an A-list crowd at a packed Bercy Arena, focus turned to the swimming pool in the evening, with three&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407300614.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italy&#8217;s Nicolo Martinenghi stunned Adam Peaty to win a nail-biting men&#8217;s 100m breaststroke final on Sunday while Simone Biles dazzled a star-studded crowd on her return to the Olympic stage. Also on day two of the Paris Games, Rafael Nadal shrugged off injury concerns to set up a second-round showdown at Roland Garros against great [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177608,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,49188,49185,4706,724,257,9702,49187,49186,6656,9249,254,14053],"class_list":["post-177607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-biles","tag-martinenghi","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-olympic","tag-peaty","tag-pips","tag-return","tag-shines","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thriller"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}