{"id":3758,"date":"2015-08-19T12:40:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/2015\/08\/19\/seb-coe-nouveau-president-de-liaaf-present-a-lag-insurance-memorial-van-damme\/"},"modified":"2015-08-19T12:40:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:40:56","slug":"seb-coe-nouveau-president-de-liaaf-present-a-lag-insurance-memorial-van-damme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/seb-coe-nouveau-president-de-liaaf-present-a-lag-insurance-memorial-van-damme\/","title":{"rendered":"Seb Coe, nouveau pr\u00e9sident de l\u2019IAAF, pr\u00e9sent \u00e0 l\u2019AG Insurance Memorial Van Damme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Le M\u00e9morial et Seb Coe, une amiti\u00e9 de longue date. Le tout premier M\u00e9morial en 1977 fut aussi le tout premier meeting de Seb Coe \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9tranger. Le jeune athl\u00e8te, alors encore totalement inconnu, fut invit\u00e9 au d\u00e9part du 800m en derni\u00e8re minute par Wilfried Meert et il arriva troisi\u00e8me de sa course. L\u2019ann\u00e9e suivante, il remporta ce 800m faisant ainsi sa grande entr\u00e9e sur le circuit international.<\/p>\n<p> En 1981, d\u00e8s son arriv\u00e9e \u00e0 Bruxelles, Seb Coe annon\u00e7a tout de suite la couleur : \u2018\u2019je suis venu pour battre le record du monde du Mile\u2019\u2019. Son rival, Steve Ovett, venait juste de lui ravir ce record et cela ne plaisait pas \u00e0 Coe. Il courut une course \u00e9clatante et pulv\u00e9risa le record d\u2019une seconde, offrant ainsi au M\u00e9morial son premier record du monde. \u2018\u2019Bruxelles fut donc le t\u00e9moin de nos d\u00e9buts ensemble\u2019\u2019, conclut Wilfried Meert.<\/p>\n<p> M\u00eame apr\u00e8s sa carri\u00e8re, Coe revint r\u00e9guli\u00e8rement \u00e0 Bruxelles. Il fut ainsi en 2006 t\u00e9moin du nouveau record du monde des K\u00e9nyans sur 4x800m, jusque-l\u00e0 \u2018\u2019son record\u2019\u2019. \u2018\u2019Coe est un ph\u00e9nom\u00e8ne en tant qu\u2019athl\u00e8te, personne et leader\u2019\u2019, dit Meert. \u2018\u2019Le M\u00e9morial se r\u00e9jouit donc \u00e9norm\u00e9ment de collaborer avec lui pour relancer notre sport \u00e0 l\u2019avenir\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Les organisateurs de l\u2019AG Insurance M\u00e9morial Van Damme f\u00e9licitent Seb Coe pour son \u00e9lection...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3758"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}