{"id":1534,"date":"2018-02-08T16:27:11","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/throwback-thursday-diamond-dancing\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T16:27:11","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T16:27:11","slug":"throwback-thursday-diamond-dancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/throwback-thursday-diamond-dancing\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Diamond Dancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture the scene: we are in Zurich. It is the last week of August, and the sun has been beating down all day on the athletes&#8217; hotel. Within 48 hours, Weltklasse Zurich, the first IAAF Diamond League Final of 2017 will take place at the Letzigrund Stadion, just a few hundred metres away. For the athletes, the Diamond Trophy is within touching distance.<\/p>\n<p>So how do you take your mind off the pressure? Well one way is to give Luis Castro a call and ask him if he has a spare moment. The Puerto Rican high jumper is not just known for his jumping, he&#8217;s also known for his salsa skills.&nbsp;<br \/>So it was that Katerina Stefanidi, world champion and now double Diamond Trophy winner in the women&#8217;s pole vault, made her first (seven) steps into a new world of dance, all under the watchful &#8211; and ever serious &#8211; eye of Gianmarco Tamberi&#8230;who was also there for some reason.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, in the words of Se\u00f1or Castro himself, we all know Stefanidi can jump. But could she dance?<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 640\/360\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FJzsFiZLRUkg&#038;video_width=640&#038;video_height=360)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JzsFiZLRUkg\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" 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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you relax in the build-up to the IAAF Diamond League Final? Get a dance lesson from Luis...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[365,6,169,367,366,43],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-dancing","tag-diamond-league","tag-gianmarco-tamberi","tag-kat-stefanidi","tag-luis-castro","tag-zurich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1534"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}