{"id":1124,"date":"2009-11-22T06:32:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-22T12:32:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=1124"},"modified":"2011-01-31T20:45:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-31T18:45:29","slug":"criticisms-for-dropping-800m-free-style-for-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/criticisms-for-dropping-800m-free-style-for-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"Criticisms for dropping 800m free style for 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1125\" title=\"swimming-dive\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/swimming-dive-146x220.jpg\" alt=\"swimming-dive\" width=\"233\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/swimming-dive-146x220.jpg 233w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/swimming-dive.jpg 371w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/><strong>BRITISH Swimming head coach Dennis Pursley has criticised the prospect of dropping the women&#8217;s 800metre freestyle event from the Olympic programme as early as 2012.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The event is the favoured distance of double Olympic champion Rebecca Adlington, but there are suggestions world governing body FINA could request it be replaced by a 1500m freestyle race.<\/p>\n<p>The move would aim to unify the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s Olympic swimming programme for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Pursley said: &#8220;I am strongly opposed to the suggestion that this could be introduced for London 2012 while our athletes are in the middle of their Olympic training cycle.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BRITISH Swimming head coach Dennis Pursley has criticised the prospect of dropping the women&#8217;s 800metre freestyle event from the Olympic programme as early as 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[150],"tags":[1815,1809,1811,1814,654,1812,1813,1810,1816],"class_list":["post-1124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-water-sports","tag-1500m-freestyle","tag-british-swimming","tag-dennis","tag-fina","tag-olympics","tag-pursley","tag-rebecca-adlington","tag-swimming","tag-womens-olympic-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}