{"id":2451,"date":"2021-08-20T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/eugene-press-conference\/"},"modified":"2021-08-20T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T17:19:00","slug":"eugene-press-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/eugene-press-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Eugene: Press Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic champions such as Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Elaine Thompson-Herah and Pedro Pablo Pichardo return to Wanda Diamond League action this weekend at the Prefontaine Classic in Eugene.<\/p>\n<p>The ninth meeting of the Diamond League season takes place on Saturday, with a programme of non-Diamond League events scheduled on Friday evening. Ahead of all the action, a selection of stars will be facing the media at the pre-meeting press conference from 13.00 local time (GMT -7).&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/diamondleague\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch the&nbsp;live stream here<\/a>&nbsp;or check out highlights&nbsp;via the blog below.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The following athletes will take part in the press conference:<\/p>\n<p> Timothy Cheriyuot<br \/> Matthew Centrowitz<br \/> Athing Mu<br \/> Keely Hodgkinson<br \/> Raevyn Rogers<br \/> Joe Kovacs<br \/> Elaine Thompson-Herah<br \/> Shelly Ann Fraser-Pryce<br \/> Shericka Jackson<br \/> Sha&#8217;Carri Richardson<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 644\/362\" 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%2F09zSIzvVFWI&#038;video_width=644&#038;video_height=362)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"362\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/09zSIzvVFWI\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"644\" 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><iframe class=\"lb24-iframe\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"960px\" loading=\"lazy\" name=\"lb24\" scrolling=\"auto\" src=\"\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe\/?id=2856882683846367606\" width=\"100%\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/v.24liveblog.com\/iframe.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch live as a host of Tokyo medallists and Diamond Trophy hopefuls including Sha&#8217;Carri...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[6,115,97,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-diamond-league","tag-eugene","tag-press-conference","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451","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=2451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2451"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}