{"id":16123,"date":"2025-07-18T05:38:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-18T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/?p=16123"},"modified":"2025-07-18T10:48:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T10:48:31","slug":"london-2025-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/london-2025-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"London 2025: Press conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The race to qualify for the Wanda Diamond League Final continues apace this weekend as the world&#8217;s best athletes head to London for the 11th leg of athletics&#8217; premier one-day series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olympic 100m champions Noah Lyles and Julien Alfred will both be in action in front of a sellout crowd at the London Stadium, while Great Britain&#8217;s biggest names go head to head in the women&#8217;s 800m, men&#8217;s 400m and women&#8217;s 200m. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pre-meeting press conference begins at 11:00 local time (GMT\/UTC+1) on Friday and the line-up is as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>11:00 local time (GMT\/UTC+1)<br><\/strong>Noah Lyles (USA, 100m)<br>Julien Alfred (LCA, 200m)<br>Femke Bol (NED, 400m hurdles)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>13:00 local time (GMT\/UTC+1)<br><\/strong>Josh Kerr (GBR, 1500m)<br>Katharina Johnson-Thompson (GBR, long jump)<br>Zak Skinner (GBR, Para 100m)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtube.com\/live\/TOzu5E6zT2Y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch live<\/a>\u00a0and catch up with highlights via the blog below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div id=\"LB24_LIVE_CONTENT\" data-eid=\"3891571768050139360\"><\/div>\n<script src=\"https:\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/24.js\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch live coverage and highlights as Julien Alfred, Noah Lyles, Josh Kerr and others face the...","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":16180,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1151,1133],"tags":[1096,6,757,1050,1232,175,333,97,624],"city":[1181],"class_list":["post-16123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-london","category-press-conference","tag-1096","tag-diamond-league","tag-femke-bol","tag-josh-kerr","tag-julien-alfred","tag-london","tag-noah-lyles","tag-press-conference","tag-wanda","city-london"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16123","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16126,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16123\/revisions\/16126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16123"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=16123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}