{"id":3342,"date":"2018-08-08T08:28:52","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T08:28:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/2018\/08\/08\/the-yearning-for-the-pole-vault-competition-on-the-ag-memorial-van-damme-can-start\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T08:28:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T08:28:52","slug":"the-yearning-for-the-pole-vault-competition-on-the-ag-memorial-van-damme-can-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/the-yearning-for-the-pole-vault-competition-on-the-ag-memorial-van-damme-can-start\/","title":{"rendered":"The yearning for the pole vault competition on the AG Memorial Van Damme can start"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pole vault competition on the AG Memorial Van Damme is almost as legendary as the endurance races. The evenings with Sergei Bubka and Jelena Isinbayeva are unforgettable for the Belgian audience. Regarding the participants in the men\u2019s vault, this year won\u2019t be different. Sam Kendricks (4 Diamond League victories this year) is top favourite, but Shawn Barber, Renaud Lavillenie and Armand Duplantis will do everything to beat him.<\/p>\n<p> Many more masters in their discipline will come to the Memorial.Big names for the 800m are the Kenyans Kinyamal and Rotich. Their fellow countrymen Balew, Barega and Chelimo (1 Diamond League victory each) will battle during the 5,000 metres. Sandra Perkovic, the leading lady in the discus throw, will also be there. The same for Lorraine Ugen and Malaika Mihambo. This week they battle in Berlin for the long jump crown, on the last day of August they\u2019ll do it over during the Memorial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since yesterday all eyes are on the European Athletics Championships in Berlin. So during the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3342","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\/3342","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=3342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3342"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}