{"id":177923,"date":"2024-08-05T02:47:26","date_gmt":"2024-08-05T00:47:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-miller-crashes-out-of-olympics\/"},"modified":"2024-08-05T02:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-05T00:47:26","slug":"namibia-miller-crashes-out-of-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-miller-crashes-out-of-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Miller Crashes Out of Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Namibia&#8217;s 2024 Olympics campaign got off to a disappointing start when Alex Miller crashed out of the men&#8217;s cross-country MTB race in Paris yesterday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Miller started off quite well and was lying 24th midway through the first lap before dropping back to 29th at the end of the first lap.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">On the second lap Miller picked up a puncture on his front wheel and although he managed to have it repaired and get back into the race, it didn&#8217;t last long.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">Miller&#8217;s coach Hans du Toit soon confirmed on the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407300167.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>Namibia&#8217;s 2024 Olympics campaign got off to a disappointing start when Alex Miller crashed out of the men&#8217;s cross-country MTB race in Paris yesterday. Miller started off quite well and was lying 24th midway through the first lap before dropping back to 29th at the end of the first lap. On the second lap Miller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":177924,"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":[258,256,11104,24035,4706,724,257,12022,254],"class_list":["post-177923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-crashes","tag-miller","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/177923","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=177923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}