{"id":6032,"date":"2016-09-16T21:12:06","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T15:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/paralympic-star-gutted-to-miss-sons-birth-for-terrible-performance\/"},"modified":"2016-09-17T03:38:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T21:38:21","slug":"paralympic-star-gutted-to-miss-sons-birth-for-terrible-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/paralympic-star-gutted-to-miss-sons-birth-for-terrible-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Paralympic star &#8216;gutted to miss son&#8217;s birth for terrible performance&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Team GB star David Weir has \u00c2 taken to Twitter to apologise and voice his frustration after a series of disappointing performances at his last Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p> The six-time gold medallist came\u00c2 fourth, fifth and sixth in the 1500m, \u00c2 400m and\u00c2 800m T54 races respectively .<\/p>\n<p><figure><img src=\"http:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/1474055823-5e5519d2d1d0cb21a3d2925d92cd1b3d-600x412.jpg\"\/><figcaption>(Adam Davy\/PA)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p> In the tweet posted on Friday evening, he explained that he didn\u2019t know what went wrong, and lamented that \u00c2 \u201dI\u2019ve missed my sons (sic) birth for this terrible performance, but I gave what I could.<\/p>\n<p> \u00e2\u0080\u009cI\u2019m deeply sorry I\u2019ve let the country and my team mates down.\u00e2\u0080\u009d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>pic.twitter.com\/Wp79KfNY0Q<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 David Weir CBE (@davidweir2012) September 16, 2016<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> The 37-year-old wheelchair racer won four gold medals from four events at London 2012, but could leave Rio 2016, his fifth and final Paralympics, with nothing, unless he achieves a podium place in Sunday\u2019s marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team GB star David Weir has \u00c2 taken to Twitter to apologise and voice his frustration after a series of disappointing performances at his last Paralympics. The six-time gold medallist came\u00c2 fourth, fifth and sixth in the 1500m, \u00c2 400m and\u00c2 800m T54 races respectively . (Adam Davy\/PA) In the tweet posted on Friday evening, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toptrendingnews.co\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}