{"id":3301,"date":"2017-08-31T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/2017\/08\/31\/taylor-found-more-peace-of-mind\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:23:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:23:24","slug":"taylor-found-more-peace-of-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/taylor-found-more-peace-of-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Taylor: \u2018Found more peace of mind&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Taylor has admitted dropping his focus on the world record of Jonathan Edwards has made him more relaxed. \u201cI had an obsession with the world record for a long time,\u201d he said on Thursday. \u201cThere used to be this voice inside my head that kept saying 18.29 (the world record distance). I don\u2019t have that any more. I found more peace of mind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy attitude has changed, there\u2019s less pressure than before. I say to myself jumping the world record is not impossible. If it comes, it comes. I stay positive. Jumping a meeting record is nice too and so is taking a medal. That attitude gives me a relaxed feeling, inner peace.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Taylor is truly an international citizen. His partner is the Austrian hurdle specialist Beate Schrott, a 2012 Olympic finalist. He shares his time in Europe between Vienna and Arnhem, in the Netherlands, the home of his British coach. What better place to go for a big performance than in Brussels, the capital of Europe, at a meeting traditionally attended by a lot of Dutch people. \u201cCompeting at the Memorial is always special,\u201d Taylor agreed. \u201cThe atmosphere is amazing and as an athlete I always try and consciously enjoy that. I want to jump with a smile.&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you name an athlete that looks more relaxed than Christian Taylor? Probably not. The world...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3301","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\/3301","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=3301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3301"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}