{"id":3448,"date":"2020-09-02T15:23:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/2020\/09\/02\/rosius-honoured-to-be-called-new-kim-gevaert\/"},"modified":"2020-09-02T15:23:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-02T15:23:38","slug":"rosius-honoured-to-be-called-new-kim-gevaert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/rosius-honoured-to-be-called-new-kim-gevaert\/","title":{"rendered":"Rosius: &#8216;Honoured to be called new Kim Gevaert\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>On August 16 Rosius burst onto the scene by setting a time of 11:39 on her way to the Belgian 100m title. Rosius became the second fastest Belgian of all time behind Kim Gevaert (11:04). Twelve years after Gevaert hung up the spikes, Belgium may have a found a new sprint phenom.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;I only started in athletics when I was 13 or 14,\u201d Rosius said. \u201cBefore that I practised gymnastics at a pretty high level. But I got into athletics through cross country running at school.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>You would expect Gevaert to be Rosius\u2019 idol, but her late start in athletics meant that she only started well after Gevaert\u2019s retirement. \u201cTo be honest, I didn\u2019t really know anything about athletics when I started,\u201d Rosius admitted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>&#8220;Of course I now know what Kim achieved and I dream of starring at the Olympic Games just like she did. I think it\u2019s an honour to be called the new Kim Gevaert, although it also adds extra pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>And what does Kim Gevaert know about Rani Rosius? \u201cI\u2019m happy we\u2019ve got a new Belgian sprint talent,\u201d Gevaert said. &#8220;On Friday I\u2019ll get to see her run live for the first time. I hear she has a great final jump and that\u2019s a big asset. The start is really technical. I can imagine there\u2019s still some room for improvement there.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cAnother tip I can give is to not get star struck. Don\u2019t look at what the other big name athletes are doing during the warm-up, just do your own thing and run inside your tunnel.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Rosius doesn\u2019t have any expectations of her AG Memorial Van Damme debut. \u201cI have no idea. I am just going to run and give it everything I have. And then we will see where I end up. A new personal record? We\u2019ll see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>If Rosius does end up breaking the Belgian 100m record, current record holder Gevaert will be the first to cheer. \u201cI\u2019ve been waiting for a long time for someone to break that record. Maybe one day my own daughters will do it, but I\u2019m happy for Rani to do it as well,\u201d she laughed.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>If that happens, then Rosius can truly be called the new Kim Gevaert.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the press conference for the AG Memorial Van Damme, Belgian sprint icon Kim Gevaert was...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3448","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\/3448","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=3448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3448"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}