{"id":23681,"date":"2012-08-10T13:44:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-10T10:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=23681"},"modified":"2012-08-10T14:17:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-10T11:17:48","slug":"a-great-olympic-story-merve-aydin-symbol-of-turkish-olympic-soul-london-2012-olympics-news-video-23681","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/a-great-olympic-story-merve-aydin-symbol-of-turkish-olympic-soul-london-2012-olympics-news-video-23681\/","title":{"rendered":"A Great Olympic story Merve Aydin symbol of Turkish Olympic soul \/ London 2012 Olympics News Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23697\" title=\"merve aydin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin-e1344595368462.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin-e1344595368462.jpg 624w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin-e1344595368462-280x154.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin-e1344595368462-610x337.jpg 610w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1>Turkey&#8217;s Merve Aydin pulled up injured but bravely finished the race some way behind the others and in tears, to huge cheers from the crowd.<\/h1>\n<p>Merve Aydin of Turkey pulls up early on with an injury, but hobbles her way round the course a la Derek Redmond. Tears are streaming down her face as she crosses the line. Devastating.<\/p>\n<p>Merve Aydin was leading the contest until suffering an ankle injury that forced her to give up her hopes of winning the race.<\/p>\n<p>Aydin, however, refused to yield and continued the race, limping and in tears.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-23698\" title=\"merve aydin 1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin-1-e1344595437527.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"607\" height=\"344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin-1-e1344595437527.jpg 607w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/merve-aydin-1-e1344595437527-280x158.jpg 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 607px) 100vw, 607px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Turkish runner had previously hit the headlines last year during a championship in Istanbul\u00a0when she burst into tears after discovering during a TV interview that she had not made it to the finals despite previously being told she had by a reporter.<\/p>\n[media id=582 width=610 height=340]\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey&#8217;s Merve Aydin pulled up injured but bravely finished the race some way behind the others and in tears, to huge cheers from the crowd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,1,118,171,1633,14],"tags":[31018,77199,31022,31023,31019,31024,31020,1068],"class_list":["post-23681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-hot","category-turkey","category-turkey-sport","category-world","tag-london-2012-merve-aydin","tag-london-2012-olympics","tag-merve-aydin","tag-merve-aydin-injured-800-m","tag-merve-aydin-london-2012","tag-merve-aydin-symbol-london-2012","tag-merve-aydin-women-800-m","tag-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681","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\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23681\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}