{"id":177623,"date":"2024-07-31T08:53:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-31T06:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-swimmer-weisthuizen-out-of-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2024-07-31T08:53:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-31T06:53:14","slug":"zimbabwe-zim-swimmer-weisthuizen-out-of-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-zim-swimmer-weisthuizen-out-of-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Zim Swimmer Weisthuizen Out of the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">ZIMBABWE swimmer Paige Van Der Weisthuizen was on Tuesday eliminated from the Olympics after she attained an overall 25th place out of the 28 in the heats of Women&#8217;s 100 freestyle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Weisthuizen missed her personal best of 57.34 in the heats as she posted 58.19, kissing goodbye to the tournament in which she qualified for on universal slot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">&#8220;Being my first Olympics I was nervous, knowing the whole country was counting on me it does put a lot of pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">&#8220;In terms of my race, it wasn&#8217;t what I&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407310064.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZIMBABWE swimmer Paige Van Der Weisthuizen was on Tuesday eliminated from the Olympics after she attained an overall 25th place out of the 28 in the heats of Women&#8217;s 100 freestyle. Weisthuizen missed her personal best of 57.34 in the heats as she posted 58.19, kissing goodbye to the tournament in which she qualified for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,257,12022,254,49192,49193,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-177623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swimmer","tag-weisthuizen","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177623","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=177623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}