{"id":7208,"date":"2026-09-01T17:16:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T15:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/?p=7208"},"modified":"2026-09-02T08:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T06:27:20","slug":"couckuyt-i-havent-reached-the-end-of-the-road-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/couckuyt-i-havent-reached-the-end-of-the-road-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"Couckuyt: &#8220;I haven\u2019t reached the end of the road yet&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ten days ago, at the Diamond League meeting in Lausanne, Couckuyt set a new Belgian record of 53.28 in the 400-metre hurdles. &#8220;A time like that opens doors and takes me into a circuit I\u2019ve always dreamt of. Next year, I\u2019ll probably be able to compete in lots of Diamond League events. Now that I have the chance, I have to chase those dreams,&#8221; said the 29-year-old athlete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The decision to continue isn\u2019t 100 per cent finalised yet, but it\u2019s certainly heading in that direction. I feel that I haven\u2019t reached the end of the road yet. I\u2019ve thoroughly enjoyed 2026 and want to continue on this course. I was surprised myself that I finished third in Lausanne in a field worthy of a World Championships final and clocked the sixth-fastest time in the world this year.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After a good week\u2019s training following Lausanne, I\u2019m fairly certain I\u2019m still at the same level to go all out again in Brussels on Friday. I\u2019d love to show the Belgian crowd what I can do!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the start of this year, Paulien Couckuyt thought the Allianz Memorial Van Damme might well be...","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":7192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-7208","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\/7208","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=7208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7209,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7208\/revisions\/7209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7208"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=7208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}