{"id":3206,"date":"2016-09-08T14:40:47","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/2016\/09\/08\/diamond-race-leader-bondarenko-fighting-sinus-problems\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T14:40:47","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T14:40:47","slug":"diamond-race-leader-bondarenko-fighting-sinus-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/diamond-race-leader-bondarenko-fighting-sinus-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond Race leader Bondarenko: &#8216;Fighting sinus problems&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\u201cI will try and make the most of it,\u201d Bondarenko said at the press conference the day before the AG Insurance Memorial Van Damme. \u201cA week before the Games I started getting sinus problems, caused by an infected tooth. I took antibiotics in Rio, but I wasn\u2019t at my best.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u201cAfterwards I jumped in Lausanne, hoping it would get better and that was the case. I now quit the antibiotics but it wasn\u2019t perfect. I am still taking aspirines to fight the pain. After the season I will definitely get a surgery. The only good news is that I\u2019m eating less. I already lost two to three kilos,\u201d Bondarenko jokes.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The Ukrainian, with a personal best of 2m42, is leading the Diamond Race with 29 points. He is leading Erik Kynard by three points, with a five point gap to third-placed Mutaz Essa Barshim and Robbie Grabarz six points back.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 854\/480\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2Fjpb4r3y0rr8&#038;video_width=854&#038;video_height=480)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jpb4r3y0rr8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The high jump Diamond Race is heating up at the Brussels finale with four athletes still in with...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3206"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}