{"id":109885,"date":"2021-08-01T13:53:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-01T13:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=109885"},"modified":"2021-08-01T14:59:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-01T14:59:38","slug":"aussie-shatters-53-year-olympic-drought-in-style","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=109885","title":{"rendered":"Aussie shatters 53-year Olympic drought in style"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/olympics\/tokyo-olympics-2021-live-updates-day-9-news-emma-mckeon-swimming-medley-relay-100m-final-rohan-browning-brandon-starc-high-jump\/e1173c82-9d6f-4379-8158-b4975eb6ff2c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" title=\"Peter Bol has shattered a long-standing drought in Tokyo \">Peter Bol has shattered a long-standing drought in Tokyo<\/a> to become the first Australian man in 53 years to see himself into the 800 metre final at an Olympic Games.<\/p>\n<p>Bol topped his semi-final in a clinical run, setting a new Australian and Oceania record with a time of 1.44.11 to guarantee his spot in Wednesday night&#x27;s decider.<\/p>\n<p>It was a stunning performance from the 27-year-old who swept around the final bend to sail himself into the lead down the home stretch, easing up metres from the line in celebration.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I put myself in the best position to qualify,&quot; Bol said after the race.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"6ab942ae-c52e-4d05-b024-6350721b8d72\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/6ab942ae-c52e-4d05-b024-6350721b8d72\" alt=\"Peter Bol stormed into 800 metre final in Tokyo.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;Even if I didn&#x27;t, I would have been happy with it.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>The Sudanese-born Aussie finished ahead of American Clayton Murphy who was the second automatic qualifier in the second semi-final.<\/p>\n<p>Bol will be the first Australian in 53 years to contest an 800 metre Olympic final since Ralph Doubell won gold at the 1968 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Job&#x27;s done today but still a lot to go,&quot; Bol said.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"722c0a40-d913-4cc0-83b3-df9bd9d812e9\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/722c0a40-d913-4cc0-83b3-df9bd9d812e9\" alt=\"Peter Bol stormed into 800 metre final in Tokyo.\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&quot;We can&#x27;t underestimate any of these runners. Any day, someone can come out.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Australians Charlie Hunter and Jeffrey Riseley did not advance from the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/strong><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"clicking here!\"><em><strong>clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Peter Bol has shattered a long-standing drought in Tokyo to become the first Australian man in 53 years to see himself into the 800 metre <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=109885\" title=\"Aussie shatters 53-year Olympic drought in style\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109885"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109885"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109887,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109885\/revisions\/109887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}