{"id":1577,"date":"2018-04-12T11:44:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/throwback-thursday-allyson-felixs-diamond-league-record\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T11:44:52","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T11:44:52","slug":"throwback-thursday-allyson-felixs-diamond-league-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/throwback-thursday-allyson-felixs-diamond-league-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Allyson Felix&#8217;s Diamond League record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Already with three Diamond Trophies to her name, Allyson Felix went into 2015 IAAF Diamond League season looking to defend her 200m title from the previous year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She got off to a flying start in Doha, putting in a sublime performance and laying down the gauntlet at the very first opportunity.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pulling away from Murielle Ahour\u00e9, Felix sailed ahead of the field on the home straight, coming in at 21.98. It was the best time in the world since Felix herrself had run 21.88 in the 2012 Olympic Final, and it was one of three Diamond League records to be set on a stunning evening of athletics.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4>WATCH: FELIX BREAKS THE DIAMOND LEAGUE RECORD AT DOHA 2015<\/h4>\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%2FqZOvHTP0SAs%3Fstart%3D101&#038;video_width=640&#038;video_height=360)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qZOvHTP0SAs?start=101\" 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>We asked you, and you voted. By popular demand, this week&#8217;s Throwback Thursday takes us...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[58,381,246,6,380,63,382,379,276],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-200m","tag-381","tag-allyson-felix","tag-diamond-league","tag-diamond-league-record","tag-doha","tag-sub-22","tag-tbt","tag-throwback-thursday"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}