{"id":2128,"date":"2019-12-12T10:58:19","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/best-diamond-league-moment-ever-sprints\/"},"modified":"2019-12-12T10:58:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T10:58:19","slug":"best-diamond-league-moment-ever-sprints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/best-diamond-league-moment-ever-sprints\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Diamond League Moment Ever: Sprints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We asked you to vote for your favourite sprint moment in ten years of Diamond League history, and you answered with an emphatic majority for the king of sprints Usain Bolt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>On our four-moment shortlist was Noah Lyles&#8217; blistering debut in Shanghai in 2018, Shaunae Miller-Uibo&#8217;s stunning sub-49 in Monaco in 2018 and Wayde van Niekerk&#8217;s Diamond League record in Lausanne two years ago.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet you voted overwhelmingly for one of the most memorable moments in Diamond League history. At the Bislett Games in Oslo in 2012, Usain Bolt cruised to a comfortable victory in 9.79, showing the inimitable class which would earn him a second Olympic triple at the London Games later that summer.<\/p>\n<p>It was what happened just after the race, though, that grabbed the headlines. Pulling up after the finish line, Bolt crashed headlong into a Bislett Games flower girl. Only some quick reactions from the Jamaican prevented the poor volunteer from tumbling to the track.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the memorable moment, as well as all the other stellar performances on our shortlist, in the video below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>To vote for your favourite Diamond League moment in the hurdles and other disciplines, <link https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/news\/single-news\/news\/detail\/News\/vote-now-best-diamond-league-moments-ever\/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">head to our polls page.&nbsp;<\/link>\n<link https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/news\/single-news\/news\/detail\/News\/vote-now-best-diamond-league-moments-ever\/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">&nbsp;<\/link>\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%2F3zAhaq-L568&#038;video_width=640&#038;video_height=360)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3zAhaq-L568\" 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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You voted for your favourite Diamond League moment ever in the sprint disciplines, and it should...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[602,6,363,131,214],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bolt","tag-diamond-league","tag-flower-girl","tag-oslo","tag-sprints"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","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=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}