{"id":2190,"date":"2020-06-10T08:17:08","date_gmt":"2020-06-10T08:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/oslo-watch-the-impossible-games-press-conference-live\/"},"modified":"2020-06-10T08:17:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T08:17:08","slug":"oslo-watch-the-impossible-games-press-conference-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/oslo-watch-the-impossible-games-press-conference-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Oslo: Watch The Impossible Games Press Conference Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live athletics returns this Thursday as some of the world&#8217;s finest pole vaulters, discus throwers and hurdlers do battle in Oslo and elsewhere at the Bislett Impossible Games.<\/p>\n<p>The Wanda Diamond League exhibition event is the first of its kind, pitting top level athletes against each other and the clock in a range of specially designed, socially distanced formats.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In order to comply with Norway&#8217;s coronavirus regulations, athletes will compete simultaneously in different venues and attack world and national records in Oslo&#8217;s Bislett Stadium.<\/p>\n<p>Highlights include a long-distance pole vault battle between world record holder <b>Mondo Duplantis<\/b> and Diamond League record champion <b>Renaud Lavillenie<\/b>, a virtual 2000m team race between Norway&#8217;s Ingebrigtsen brothers and a star-studded Kenyan line-up, and a 300m hurdles world record attempt from 400m hurdles world champion <b>Karsten Warholm<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Duplantis, Warholm, <b>Timothy Cheruiyot<\/b> and others will take part in a pre-event talkshow this Wednesday, hosted by Oslo meeting director Steinar Hoen.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Tune in below from 17.00 local time (15.00 GMT\/UTC) to watch the press conference live. <\/p>\n<p>And if you have a question for any of the Impossible Games superstars, Diamond League moderators will also be relaying selected questions from social media directly to the athletes.<\/p>\n<h3>WATCH THE IMPOSSIBLE GAMES PRESS CONFERENCE LIVE<\/h3>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 560\/315\" 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%2FCdxw6sIuZuo&#038;video_width=560&#038;video_height=315)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cdxw6sIuZuo\" ;=\"\" 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>Athletics is back! Watch live as Mondo Duplantis, Karsten Warholm and others discuss the Bislett...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[422,228,648,6,412,680,660,127,676,131,97,536,624,429],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-bislett","tag-calendar","tag-coronavirus","tag-diamond-league","tag-duplantis","tag-event","tag-impossible-games","tag-lavillenie","tag-norway","tag-oslo","tag-press-conference","tag-stahl","tag-wanda","tag-warholm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","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=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}