{"id":6691,"date":"2026-05-06T12:00:43","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/?p=6691"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:07:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T10:07:41","slug":"the-memorial-receives-a-virtual-visit-from-ivo-van-damme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/the-memorial-receives-a-virtual-visit-from-ivo-van-damme\/","title":{"rendered":"The Memorial receives a virtual visit from Ivo Van Damme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ivo witnesses how, over the past fifty years, some of the greatest stars in athletics \u2013 including Seb Coe, Carl Lewis, Usain Bolt, Mondo Duplantis and many others \u2013 have shone on this stage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper has-smush-lazyload-video\"><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 500\/281\" 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%2FP-bBJtCNrlg%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Allianz Memorial Van Damme | 50th Edition Campaign Movie | ENG\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P-bBJtCNrlg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" 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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ivo Van Damme was a highly promising Belgian athlete. At the age of 22, he won two silver medals at the Olympic Games in Montreal. Six months later, he tragically lost his life in a car accident while returning from a training camp. His vision of a top-level meeting in Brussels eventually became a reality in tribute to him. The very first edition of the Memorial Van Damme took place on 16 August 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anniversary edition of the Allianz Memorial Van Damme pays tribute to Ivo van Damme, the man...","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":6676,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-6691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6697,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6691\/revisions\/6697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6691"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=6691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}