{"id":2353,"date":"2021-06-09T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/florence-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2021-06-09T10:13:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T10:13:00","slug":"florence-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/florence-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Florence: Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2021 Wanda Diamond League season continues apace this week with the Pietro Mennea Golden Gala in Florence. The third Diamond League meeting&nbsp; of the season, Florence will host world record holders such as Sifan Hassan and Joshua Cheptegei, as well as&nbsp;Diamond Trophy holders Dina Asher-Smith and Malaika Mihambo. The action begins at 18:45 local time (GMT+2) on Thursday with the women&#8217;s discus.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, some of the stars of the meeting &#8211; which has moved to Tuscany from Rome for one year only in 2021 &#8211; faced&nbsp;the media at the pre-meeting press conference at the Salone dei Cinquecento in Florence&#8217;s Palazzo Vecchio. You can <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nTg97hlF4YM\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">re-watch the full press conference here<\/a>&nbsp;or check out highlights&nbsp;via the blog below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Press conference schedule&nbsp;(local time GMT+2)<br \/> 11:00 &#8211; Sifan Hassan, Joshua Cheptegei, Dina Asher-Smith<br \/> 11.20 &#8211; Gianmarco Tamberi, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Malaika Mihambo, Larissa Iapichino<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"lb24-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"960px\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"lb24\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe\/?id=2804538722335396462\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch live as Sifan Hassan, Joshua Cheptegei and others face the media at the pre-meeting press...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2354,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[450,694,6,774,562,267,552,97,353,435,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-asher-smith","tag-cheptegei","tag-diamond-league","tag-florence","tag-hassan","tag-live","tag-mihambo","tag-press-conference","tag-schedule","tag-tamberi","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","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=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}