{"id":2253,"date":"2020-09-01T08:06:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:06:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/lausanne-press-conference-highlights-3\/"},"modified":"2020-09-01T08:06:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T08:06:15","slug":"lausanne-press-conference-highlights-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/lausanne-press-conference-highlights-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Lausanne: Press Conference Highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lausanne will be awash with athletics excitement this Wednesday as the world&#8217;s top pole vault stars &#8211; both male and female &#8211; do battle on the shores of Lake Geneva.<\/p>\n<p>Despite coronavirus restrictions, a star-studded line-up and a picture-postcard setting mean the Wanda Diamond League exhibition event still promises plenty of excitement this year.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the stars of this year&#8217;s Athletissima, including Mondo Duplantis and Sam Kendricks, faced the media at Tuesday&#8217;s press conference.<\/p>\n<p>Watch a selection of highlights clips below or scroll down to the bottom of the page to watch back the press conference in full.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" name=\"lb24\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"960px\" width=\"100%\" class=\"lb24-iframe\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe\/?id=2601493937627008747\"><\/iframe> <script src=\"https:\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe.js\"><\/script><\/p>\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%2FVf3G-7tAqQY&#038;video_width=560&#038;video_height=315)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Vf3G-7tAqQY\" ;=\"\" 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>Watch back as pole vault stars such as Mondo Duplantis and Holly Bradshaw faced the media ahead...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[522,13,6,412,14,129,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-522","tag-athletissima","tag-diamond-league","tag-duplantis","tag-lausanne","tag-pole-vault","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253","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=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}