{"id":1634,"date":"2018-05-11T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/shanghai-press-conference-video-highlights\/"},"modified":"2018-05-11T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-11T13:00:00","slug":"shanghai-press-conference-video-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/shanghai-press-conference-video-highlights\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai: Press Conference Video Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Schippers gunning for number 1<\/h2>\n<p>Dafne Schippers is the third-fastest women over 200 metres in history, and is always looking to get closer to the world record.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>Think you can break the 200m world record <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/dafneschippers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>@dafneschippers<\/link>?:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;My time was very good in Beijing at the 2015 World Championship (21.63s), and I try to come close to that time and hope I can break it again, my personal best. I need to make some steps.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 IAAF Diamond League (@Diamond_League) <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Diamond_League\/status\/994847217415544833?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>May 11, 2018<\/link><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<h2>Kendricks feeling the love in China<\/h2>\n<p>Having won the last two Shanghai Diamond League meetings and making his first World Championship squad in Beijing in 2015, American pole vaulter Sam Kendricks has fond memories of China.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>.<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/samkendricks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>@samkendricks<\/link> on his competition.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;China has very kind to me. I won the <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShanghaiDL?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#ShanghaiDL<\/link> in 2016 &amp; 2017 in spite of great competition. It is a dogfight every time and nothing is guaranteed. <\/p>\n<p>If you want a great pole vault competition watch tomorrow.&quot;<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DiamondLeague?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#DiamondLeague<\/link> <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoadToTheFinal?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#RoadToTheFinal<\/link>\n<p>\u2014 IAAF Diamond League (@Diamond_League) <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Diamond_League\/status\/994849819188518914?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>May 11, 2018<\/link><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<h2>Kendricks: Lavillenie is the king<\/h2>\n<p>And he sees every encounter with Renaud Lavillenie as a learning experience.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>.<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/samkendricks?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>@samkendricks<\/link> on facing <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/airlavillenie?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>@airlavillenie<\/link> at <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShanghaiDL?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#ShanghaiDL<\/link>\n<p>Renaud Lavillenie is the king. He is the world record holder, he has won the <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DiamondLeague?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#DiamondLeague<\/link> seven times. Every time I get to compete with him I learn from him.<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoadToTheFinal?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#RoadToTheFinal<\/link>\n<p>\u2014 IAAF Diamond League (@Diamond_League) <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Diamond_League\/status\/994852822922551296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>May 11, 2018<\/link><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<h2>McLeod: Bolt transcended the sport<\/h2>\n<p>Omar McLeod looked up to Usain Bolt, and has no problems being compared with the eight-time Olympic Champion.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>.<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Warrior_omz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>@Warrior_omz<\/link> on if he is tired of Usain Bolt comparisons:<\/p>\n<p>To be honest, yes. No I\u2019m kidding. I can\u2019t deny the fact that Usain is well-respected in our sport, he has transcended the sport and made it known. So I don\u2019t get tired when asked about him. <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShanghaiDL?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#ShanghaiDL<\/link> <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoadToTheFinal?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#RoadToTheFinal<\/link>\n<p>\u2014 IAAF Diamond League (@Diamond_League) <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Diamond_League\/status\/994836011132882944?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>May 11, 2018<\/link><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> <\/p>\n<h2>Gong unfazed ahead of Shanghai:<\/h2>\n<p>IAAF Diamond League Champion Gong Lijiao insists it is business as usual as she prepares to perform in front of a home crowd.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>2017 <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DiamondLeague?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#DiamondLeague<\/link> shot put champion Gong Lijiao on feeling home crowd pressure:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;A little. I achieved a lot last year, but I always tell myself the moment you walk from the podium everything starts fresh. I will prepare like always.&quot;<link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ShanghaiDL?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#ShanghaiDL<\/link> <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RoadToTheFinal?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>#RoadToTheFinal<\/link>\n<p>\u2014 IAAF Diamond League (@Diamond_League) <link https:\/\/twitter.com\/Diamond_League\/status\/994839752686923776?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw>May 11, 2018<\/link><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script> Watch the Press Conference in full below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FDiamondLeague%2Fvideos%2F2191388737552975%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out what Dafne Schippers, Omar McLeod, Sam Kendricks, Xie Zhenye, Gong Lijao and Xue...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}