{"id":11011,"date":"2012-05-29T14:15:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=11011"},"modified":"2012-05-29T14:15:18","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T14:15:18","slug":"ethiopian-two-time-olympic-champion-fails-to-qualify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2012\/05\/29\/ethiopian-two-time-olympic-champion-fails-to-qualify\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian two-time Olympic champion fails to qualify"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Ethiopian two-time Olympic 10,000m champion Haile Gebrselassie has failed to qualify for this summer&#8217;s Games in London after finishing seventh at the Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in Hengelo.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_11014\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Haile-Gebrselassie.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11014\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Haile-Gebrselassie.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Haile Gebrselassie\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11014\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11014\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haile Gebrselassie<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nWith the race being an official Ethiopian Olympic trial, Gebrselassie needed a top-two finish to qualify. But the 39-year-old ran a time of 27 minutes 20.39 seconds, nearly nine seconds behind winner Tariku Bekele. Elsewhere, Britain&#8217;s Phillips Idowu was victorious in the triple jump. The 33-year-old 2009 world champion won with a leap of 17.31m. Idowu&#8217;s fellow Briton Hannah England came home first in the women&#8217;s 1500m in 4mins 4.05secs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian two-time Olympic 10,000m champion Haile Gebrselassie has failed to qualify for this summer&#8217;s Games in London after finishing seventh [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[699,773,2470,2471],"class_list":["post-11011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","tag-ethiopia","tag-haile-gebrselassie","tag-olympic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}