{"id":1823,"date":"2018-11-01T16:48:59","date_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/laura-muir-the-year-of-the-british-records\/"},"modified":"2018-11-01T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-01T16:48:59","slug":"laura-muir-the-year-of-the-british-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/laura-muir-the-year-of-the-british-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Laura Muir: The Year of the British Records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rising British star Muir had what seemed to be the perfect curtain-raiser for her trip to the Olympics when she lined up at the Diamond League meeting in London.<\/p>\n<p>The Scot exceeded all expectations in London, breaking the British record with a brilliant 3:56.41.&nbsp;Yet her dreams were dashed in Rio, as she failed to hit her best form and came in an underwhelming seventh place.<\/p>\n<p>Muir, though, is nothing if not a fighter, and immediately got back on the horse to deliver an astonishing performance in Paris in the aftermath of Olympic disappointment.&nbsp;<\/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%2FLcXm46WJ4bA&#038;video_width=640&#038;video_height=360)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LcXm46WJ4bA\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 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<p>With 3:55.42, she smashed her own British record from the previous month, beating Olympic champion Faith Kipyegon in the process.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The two victories in London and Paris set Muir on course for the Diamond Trophy, and she dutifully delivered, nabbing the title in Zurich later that season.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Laura Muir got her hands on the Diamond Trophy in 2016, but that wasn&#8217;t the only reason...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[87,482,6,199,175,90,192,183],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-87","tag-british-records","tag-diamond-league","tag-laura-muir","tag-london","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-rio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823","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=1823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1823\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1823"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}